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How to Use Tines’s SOC Automation Capability Matrix 2024-06-21 at 15:01 By Created by John Tuckner and the team at automation and AI-powered workflow platform Tines, the SOC Automation Capability Matrix (SOC ACM) is a set of techniques designed to help security operations teams understand their automation capabilities and respond more effectively to incidents.  A customizable, vendor-agnostic tool […]

Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider 2024-06-21 at 14:31 By Connor Jones At least they didn’t get paid their $50 million ransom demand The ransomware gang responsible for the chaos at London hospitals kept true to its word and released a trove of data that it claims belongs

Guess how much stored data is ever used or accessed 2024-06-21 at 13:32 By Richard Speed Not a lot, says NetApp’s Matt Watts as he talks file classification, wastage, and power consumption Interview  NetApp’s Chief Technology Evangelist, Matt Watts, is worried about sustainability and data wastage, even as his employer withdraws third-party support from BlueXP

Oyster Backdoor Spreading via Trojanized Popular Software Downloads 2024-06-21 at 13:16 By A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster (aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader). That’s according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious payloads that users

The X Window System is still hanging on at 40 2024-06-21 at 12:46 By Richard Speed Never underestimate the stickiness of legacy technology It is 40 years since Robert W Scheifler ushered in the era of the X Window System, a windowing system that continues to stick around despite many distributions looking for alternatives.… This

SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Under Active Attack – Patch Immediately 2024-06-21 at 12:16 By A recently patched high-severity flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer software is being actively exploited by malicious actors in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28995 (CVSS score: 8.6), concerns a directory transversal bug that could allow attackers to read sensitive files

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites 2024-06-21 at 10:01 By Matthew Connatser If Putin likes jammin’, we hope NATO likes jammin’ too Sweden says its satellites have been impacted by “harmful interference” from Russia ever since the Nordic nation joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last March.… This article

How Europe can force Apple to support competition 2024-06-21 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn Open Web Advocacy report calls for these extensive changes to iGiant’s rules Exclusive  The results of the European Commission’s inquiry into Apple’s response to the continent’s competition rules are expected to surface soon – and reports indicate the regulators are less

Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach 2024-06-21 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers’ personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke

U.S. Bans Kaspersky Software, Citing National Security Risks 2024-06-21 at 08:16 By The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on Thursday announced a “first of its kind” ban that prohibits Kaspersky Lab’s U.S. subsidiary from directly or indirectly offering its security software in the country. The blockade also extends to the

Micron mega-fab mildly endangered by definitely endangered American bats 2024-06-21 at 07:46 By Dan Robinson Like a bat out of hell they’ll be gone when November comes Micron is reportedly facing a new hitch to starting work on its proposed fabrication center in New York State: Endangered bats.… This article is an excerpt from The

Meta warns that bit flips and other hardware faults cause AI errors 2024-06-21 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood It’s no hallucination: perhaps four in a thousand inferences are inaccurate Meta has identified another reason AI might produce rubbish output: hardware faults that corrupt data.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots 2024-06-21 at 02:46 By Tobias Mann Fast, funny, visionary, perhaps, but hey at least there’s real-time output tweaking Video  OpenAI challenger Anthropic has delivered its latest model — Claude 3.5 Sonnet — and claimed it outperforms rivals on many tasks.… This

Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated 2024-06-21 at 02:16 By Matthew Connatser Won’t somebody pleeease think of the … oh, right, they are A lawsuit accusing Google of breaking America’s child privacy laws will proceed to trial as a judge denied the web goliath’s motion to throw out the case.…

Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients’ records in cyber-attack 2024-06-21 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Consulting Radiologists has notified almost 512,000 patients that digital intruders accessed their personal and medical information during a February cyberattack.… This article is an excerpt

Biden puts a bullet in Kaspersky: Sales, updates to be banned in America 2024-06-21 at 00:16 By Jessica Lyons Blockade begins July 20 Breaking news  The Biden administration has banned the sale of Kaspersky products and services in the United States, saying the Russian biz is a national security risk.… This article is an excerpt

Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid ‘cyber incident’ 2024-06-21 at 00:01 By Connor Jones Downtime set to crash into next week The vendor behind the software on which nearly 15,000 car dealerships across the US rely says an ongoing “cyber incident” has forced it to pull systems offline for a second

Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project 2024-06-20 at 23:16 By Tobias Mann Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now Dell Technologies and Supermicro have been confirmed as the computer makers building an Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer for Elon Musk’s xAI startup.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

IBM, Kyndryl again once sued for age discrimination – this time by its own VPs 2024-06-20 at 23:01 By Thomas Claburn More big blues at Big Blue … And of course El Reg coverage is cited in the lawsuit Once again, IBM has been sued for age discrimination, this time alongside spin-off Kyndryl, for allegedly

Tesla’s tight grip on repairs sparks courtroom showdown 2024-06-20 at 22:31 By Lindsay Clark Class action allowed to continue with EV maker’s ‘tying’ practices the focus A judge has ruled that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging the electric car manufacturer denies customers and third parties the right to repair its vehicles.… This article is