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Law firms seek investors’ support in Teradata class action 2024-06-17 at 17:35 By Lindsay Clark Claim analytics and data platform biz misled investors about size of public cloud forecast Teradata faces the prospect of a class action suit relating to statements to investors.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Um, what ever did happen with network automation? 2024-06-17 at 16:50 By Bruce Davie Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars? Systems Approach  In thinking about the decade-plus worth of efforts to automate the configuration and operation of networks – of which intent-based networking may be the most well-known and ambitious example

Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader 2024-06-17 at 16:01 By Connor Jones Spanish cops make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy Spanish police arrested a person they allege to be the leader of the notorious cybercrime gang Scattered Spider just before he boarded a private flight headed to

Secure Access Service Edge: Another Multi-Tool for the SOC 2024-06-17 at 16:01 By David Broggy Over the years, several security defense architectures have merged into a single solution. Endpoint detection tools can perform sophisticated detections and correlations that used to require a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), Web Proxy, and SIEM. Application Firewalls often provide

Microsoft resumes rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to Insiders 2024-06-17 at 15:46 By Richard Speed Everything is fine, despite Recall setting fire to the house that Gates built And just like that, Windows 11 24H2 is back.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

China-Linked Hackers Infiltrate East Asian Firm for 3 Years Using F5 Devices 2024-06-17 at 15:31 By A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage actor has been attributed as behind a prolonged attack against an unnamed organization located in East Asia for a period of about three years, with the adversary establishing persistence using legacy F5 BIG-IP appliances

Asda IT staff shuffled off to TCS amid messy tech divorce from Walmart 2024-06-17 at 15:16 By Lindsay Clark Infrastructure teams have ‘eye on door’ as SAP migration enters critical phase Exclusive  Asda is transferring more than 100 internal IT workers to Indian outsourcing company TCS as it labors to meet deadlines to move away

Only 19% of MITRE ATT&CK tactics are covered by SIEMs 2024-06-17 at 15:16 By Security leaders respond to a new report showing only 19% of MITRE ATT&CK tactics are covered by SIEMs.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

What is DevSecOps and Why is it Essential for Secure Software Delivery? 2024-06-17 at 14:47 By Traditional application security practices are not effective in the modern DevOps world. When security scans are run only at the end of the software delivery lifecycle (either right before or after a service is deployed), the ensuing process of

AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you … 2024-06-17 at 14:31 By Jessica Lyons and Chris Williams The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey? Heads up: Amazon Web Services is pushing ahead with making multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for certain users, and we love to

UK’s Total Fitness exposed nearly 500k images of members and staff through unprotected database 2024-06-17 at 13:46 By Connor Jones Health club chain headed for the spa on choose a password day A security researcher claims UK health club and gym chain Total Fitness bungled its data protection responsibilities by failing to lock down a

Nearly 20% of running SQL Servers have passed end of support 2024-06-17 at 12:31 By Richard Speed That beige box running a server is easily forgotten … until it goes wrong Exclusive  IT asset management platform Lansweeper has dispensed a warning for enterprise administrators everywhere. Exactly how old is that SQL Server on which your

Can platform-wide AI ever fit into enterprise security? 2024-06-17 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins You know what they say about headlines that end in a question mark Opinion  AI – loud, confident, and wrong. That’s not talking about generative AI’s ability to hallucinate, although why not? Rather, it’s about the big picture, the platform-wide Recall

Hackers Exploit Legitimate Websites to Deliver BadSpace Windows Backdoor 2024-06-17 at 10:01 By Legitimate-but-compromised websites are being used as a conduit to deliver a Windows backdoor dubbed BadSpace under the guise of fake browser updates. “The threat actor employs a multi-stage attack chain involving an infected website, a command-and-control (C2) server, in some cases a

Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 attacks vSphere and Azure to run VMs inside victims’ infrastructure 2024-06-17 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Who needs ransomware when you can scare techies into coughing up their credentials? Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 – the crew suspected of involvement in the recent attacks on Snowflake and MGM Entertainment, and plenty more

China’s Big Tech companies taught Asia to pay by scanning QR codes, but made a mess along the way 2024-06-17 at 08:45 By Laura Dobberstein A push for interoperability is accelerating, but maybe not fast enough to stop biometrics taking over Feature  From Bangalore to Beijing, when Asians go out to shop, they seldom use

NiceRAT Malware Targets South Korean Users via Cracked Software 2024-06-17 at 08:45 By Threat actors have been observed deploying a malware called NiceRAT to co-opt infected devices into a botnet. The attacks, which target South Korean users, are designed to propagate the malware under the guise of cracked software, such as Microsoft Windows, or tools

Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough $4.5 billion and then liquidate itself 2024-06-17 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood South Korean outfit that sparked ‘Crypto Winter’ will melt away after SEC order Terraform Labs, the outfit behind the $40 billion crash of the TerraUSD stablecoin and its sibling Luna (LUNA) tokens, will pay $4.5 billion to creditors

Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers 2024-06-16 at 17:46 By Thomas Claburn As more than 70 civil society groups sign open letter slamming ‘intimidation’ Meta allegedly tried to discredit university researchers in Brazil who had flagged fraudulent adverts on the social network’s ad platform.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

U.K. Hacker Linked to Notorious Scattered Spider Group Arrested in Spain 2024-06-16 at 08:01 By Law enforcement authorities have allegedly arrested a key member of the notorious cybercrime group called Scattered Spider. The individual, a 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom, was arrested this week in the Spanish city of Palma de Mallorca as he