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Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS 2024-07-05 at 21:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo That was quick: Supremes’ gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends Regulatory dominoes have begun to fall in the wake of the Supreme Court’s gutting of federal agency rulemaking authority, with the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on […]

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals 2024-07-05 at 20:16 By Connor Jones Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Exclusive  The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London’s biggest hospitals in the four weeks since

Nvidia forecast to bounce back in China to make $12B selling GPUs 2024-07-05 at 18:46 By Dan Robinson Company’s sales in the region have dropped under US plan to curb country’s AI hopes Nvidia is forecast to make $12 billion from selling GPUs into China this year despite US trade restrictions aimed at curbing Beijing’s

Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PTRG Network Monitor 2024-07-05 at 17:16 By Dan Robinson Customers seek alternatives after claiming costs up from perpetual Exclusive  Fears that VMware’s switch to subscription-based licensing would lead other vendors to follow suit may be coming true after Paessler confirmed to The Reg it has introduced new subscription pricing

Webinar Alert: Learn How ITDR Solutions Stop Sophisticated Identity Attacks 2024-07-05 at 16:16 By Identity theft isn’t just about stolen credit cards anymore. Today, cybercriminals are using advanced tactics to infiltrate organizations and cause major damage with compromised credentials. The stakes are high: ransomware attacks, lateral movement, and devastating data breaches. Don’t be caught off

OVHcloud Hit with Record 840 Million PPS DDoS Attack Using MikroTik Routers 2024-07-05 at 16:16 By French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). This is just above the previous record of 809 million

Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler 2024-07-05 at 15:47 By Connor Jones There’s also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming

Department of Labor announces extreme heat protections for workers 2024-07-05 at 15:16 By The U.S. Department of Labor has released a proposed rule to protect workers from the significant health risks of extreme heat.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Blueprint for Success: Implementing a CTEM Operation 2024-07-05 at 14:46 By The attack surface isn’t what it once was and it’s becoming a nightmare to protect. A constantly expanding and evolving attack surface means risk to the business has skyrocketed and current security measures are struggling to keep it protected. If you’ve clicked on this

Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray 2024-07-05 at 14:17 By Lindsay Clark Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation Analysis  The United Kingdom woke up to the prospect of a new government this morning, but it faces old problems in

GootLoader Malware Still Active, Deploys New Versions for Enhanced Attacks 2024-07-05 at 13:02 By The malware known as GootLoader continues to be in active use by threat actors looking to deliver additional payloads to compromised hosts. “Updates to the GootLoader payload have resulted in several versions of GootLoader, with GootLoader 3 currently in active use,”

Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build 2024-07-05 at 12:36 By Liam Proven UEK-next is bleeding edge – unlike most CentOS-alikes Oracle’s Linux engineers have released their build of kernel 6.9 for Oracle Linux – and they’re already planning for 6.10 and beyond.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard 2024-07-05 at 11:31 By Connor Jones Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations – and it’s not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.… This

Time Lords decree: No leap second needed in 2024 2024-07-05 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, even if Earth is spinning out The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) announced on Thursday there will be no leap second added to 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The

Polyfill[.]io Attack Impacts Over 380,000 Hosts, Including Major Companies 2024-07-05 at 08:01 By The supply chain attack targeting widely-used Polyfill[.]io JavaScript library is wider in scope than previously thought, with new findings from Censys showing that over 380,000 hosts are embedding a polyfill script linking to the malicious domain as of July 2, 2024. This

Good news: Samsung predicts prodigious profit pop 2024-07-05 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Bad news: It’s probably because you have to pay more for RAM Samsung Electronics has advised investors it is set to post bumper profits and notch a big jump in revenue for the quarter ended June 30.… This article is an excerpt

New Golang-Based Zergeca Botnet Capable of Powerful DDoS Attacks 2024-07-05 at 07:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that’s capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Written in Golang, the botnet is so named for its reference to a string named “ootheca” present in the command-and-control (C2) servers (“ootheca[.]pw” and “ootheca[.]top”).

Security leaders discuss three sophisticated nation-state campaigns 2024-07-05 at 07:16 By A new report details 3 sophisticated nation-state campaigns, and security leaders share their insights. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Kindle sputters out: Amazon’s e-readers couldn’t download content for a day or more 2024-07-05 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood Support line reports ‘high volume of contacts’ about the problem Owners of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader devices looking for something new to read may have had to pick up an actual book – the old-school kind, made

We’ve banned Chinese telco kit and drones. Next: mountain bikes? 2024-07-05 at 04:01 By Laura Dobberstein DJI builds a power pack for off-road two-wheelers Nations worried about China’s ability to use its tech companies for more than trade now have a new class of kit to fret over: mountain bikes, thanks to Middle Kingdom drone-maker