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HCL’s back-to-office plan: come in three days a week, or forget about holidays 2024-07-22 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Indian tech workers’ union calls for a strike over 14-hour day proposal HCL Technologies has devised a measure to make sure its India-based employees change out of their pajamas and head into the office: making on-premises […]

Curiosity rover is crushing it: ran over a rock and found pure sulfur 2024-07-22 at 08:34 By Simon Sharwood An unexpected splash of yellow on the red planet The Curiosity rover has found something surprising: rocks made of pure sulfur.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Google, Oracle, and Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer? 2024-07-22 at 08:03 By Simon Sharwood New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends Google Cloud has delivered a Broadcom-compliant version of its cloudy VMware offering, and pitched it as a

New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMWare ESXi Systems 2024-07-22 at 07:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a ransomware strain known as Play (aka Balloonfly and PlayCrypt) that’s designed to target VMWare ESXi environments. “This development suggests that the group could be broadening its attacks across the Linux platform,

Researchers discovered a new phishing kit on the dark web 2024-07-22 at 07:16 By Security leaders share their insights on a new phishing kit on the dark web.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes 2024-07-22 at 03:03 By Simon Sharwood Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5 million machines went down CrowdStrike’s now-infamous Falcon Sensor software, which last week led to widespread outages of Windows-powered computers, has also caused crashes of Linux machines.… This article is

Cybercriminals Exploit CrowdStrike Update Mishap to Distribute Remcos RAT Malware 2024-07-20 at 20:31 By Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is facing the heat for causing worldwide IT disruptions by pushing out a flawed update to Windows devices, is now warning that threat actors are exploiting the situation to distribute Remcos RAT to its customers in Latin

FTC grabs controller as Microsoft jacks up Game Pass price by 81% 2024-07-20 at 19:46 By Matthew Connatser This is exactly what we said would happen post-Blizzard merger, laments watchdog, as its appeal continues Microsoft plans to raise the price of its Game Pass subscriptions significantly – and one US watchdog isn’t amused.… This article

17-Year-Old Linked to Scattered Spider Cybercrime Syndicate Arrested in U.K. 2024-07-20 at 08:46 By Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall who is suspected to be a member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime syndicate. The arrest was made “in connection with a global cyber online crime group which

UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM cyberattack probe 2024-07-20 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons 17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will ‘relentlessly pursue’ miscreants around the globe Cops in the UK have arrested a suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider crime gang, which is accused of crippling MGM Resorts in Las Vegas with

We’re In This Together 2024-07-19 at 23:16 By Jason Rolleston At Black Hat and beyond, collaboration is king This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear 2024-07-19 at 21:02 By Iain Thomson Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday Kettle  If you’re an IT administrator with Windows boxes on your network, Friday can’t have been a lot of fun. What’s likely millions of systems were or still are

Microsoft and Crowdstrike outage grounds planes and closes offices 2024-07-19 at 19:16 By Thursday, July 18, users worldwide experienced a technology outage affecting flights, banks, hospitals and more. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Summer travel plans? Don’t get scammed while you’re away 2024-07-19 at 19:16 By This SecOps “Summer Survival Kit” can provide security professionals with peace of mind during vacations.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cyber criminals quickly exploit CrowdStrike chaos 2024-07-19 at 18:31 By Jessica Lyons Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all other manner of creeps Well that was fast. Criminals didn’t waste any time taking advantage of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos and quickly got to work phishing organizations and spinning up malicious domains purporting to be

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike’s patch failure is messing up the world 2024-07-19 at 18:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24? Today is one of those days that will go down in history as an unmitigated IT disaster, with CrowdStrike responsible for taking systems down all over the globe. We know airports,