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Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned 2024-04-15 at 18:51 By Connor Jones Streamer says access came via credential stuffing Streaming giant Roku is making 2FA mandatory after attackers accessed around 591,000 customer accounts earlier this year.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

NASA tries to jog Voyager 1’s memory from 15 billion miles away 2024-04-15 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Since you can’t get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software Engineers at NASA have pinpointed some corrupted memory as the cause of Voyager 1’s troubles and are working on a remote fix

Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11 2024-04-15 at 17:47 By Richard Speed It probably wasn’t only sound driver problems that kept users away Microsoft has lifted a 29-month compatibility hold that prevented some Windows 10 systems from upgrading to Windows 11 due to an issue with an Intel Smart Sound Technology driver.… This

Delinea Secret Server customers should apply latest patches 2024-04-15 at 17:05 By Connor Jones Attackers could nab an org’s most sensitive keys if left unaddressed Customers of Delinea’s Secret Server are being urged to upgrade their installations “immediately” after a researcher claimed a critical vulnerability could allow attackers to gain admin-level access.… This article is

Is your financial data safe this tax season? 2024-04-15 at 17:04 By Explore strategies for individuals, as well as tax preparation organizations, to ensure their data and their clients’ data is protected this tax season. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Muddled Libra Shifts Focus to SaaS and Cloud for Extortion and Data Theft Attacks 2024-04-15 at 16:49 By The threat actor known as Muddled Libra has been observed actively targeting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud service provider (CSP) environments in a bid to exfiltrate sensitive data. “Organizations often store a variety of data in SaaS applications and

AI Copilot: Launching Innovation Rockets, But Beware of the Darkness Ahead 2024-04-15 at 16:49 By Imagine a world where the software that powers your favorite apps, secures your online transactions, and keeps your digital life could be outsmarted and taken over by a cleverly disguised piece of code. This isn’t a plot from the latest

World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising 2024-04-15 at 16:32 By Paul Kunert Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound The world is collectively buying more factory-fresh smartphones again, with Chinese homegrown brands propelling shipments. Meanwhile, Apple reported a near double-digit slump, and Samsung also saw declines, albeit

US senator wants to put the brakes on Chinese EVs 2024-04-15 at 16:18 By Dan Robinson Fears of low-cost invasion and data spies spark call for ban Electric vehicles may become a new front in America’s tech war with China after a US senator called for Washington DC to block Chinese-made EVs to protect domestic

The Secret Cipher: Modern Data Loss Prevention Solutions 2024-04-15 at 16:01 By David Broggy Far too many organizations place Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Data Protection at the bottom of their priority list due to the perceived difficulty in its deployment. When there are in fact some easy approaches to getting started with protecting your

North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users 2024-04-15 at 15:48 By Lindsay Clark Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline Nearly two-thirds of SAP users in North America are set to migrate to its latest S/4HANA ERP platform, or have already started the process, according to

Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders 2024-04-15 at 15:19 By Richard Speed This wasn’t what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature ‘great again’ Microsoft is to try out “recommendations” – ads for apps in the Microsoft Store – in the Windows

Timing is Everything: The Role of Just-in-Time Privileged Access in Security Evolution 2024-04-15 at 14:46 By To minimize the risk of privilege misuse, a trend in the privileged access management (PAM) solution market involves implementing just-in-time (JIT) privileged access. This approach to privileged identity management aims to mitigate the risks associated with prolonged high-level access by granting

Feline firewall woke developer to declaw DDoS disaster 2024-04-15 at 14:35 By Simon Sharwood System alerts were pinging but cat had no way of knowing what was happening A developer named Danny Guo has shared a story of the time his cat alerted him to a DDoS attack.… This article is an excerpt from The

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 2024-04-15 at 13:32 By Rupert Goodwins Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must Opinion  Twice it was tried, twice it failed. In Germany, Munich and Lower Saxony both decided to switch to open source for official IT. Both projects, to some extent or another*,

After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 ‘Noble Numbat’ belatedly hits beta 2024-04-15 at 12:47 By Liam Proven Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages The beta version of this year’s Ubuntu LTS release is out, complete with a new, and automatable, installation program.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Chinese-Linked LightSpy iOS Spyware Targets South Asian iPhone Users 2024-04-15 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a “renewed” cyber espionage campaign targeting users in South Asia with the aim of delivering an Apple iOS spyware implant called LightSpy. “The latest iteration of LightSpy, dubbed ‘F_Warehouse,’ boasts a modular framework with extensive spying features,” the BlackBerry

MIT breakthrough means there’s no material too weird for 3D printing 2024-04-15 at 11:32 By Lindsay Clark Thanks to sensors and math, machines can ‘learn’ to adapt to new mediums Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new method for 3D printing, which they claim greatly reduces the time taken to

Palo Alto Networks Releases Urgent Fixes for Exploited PAN-OS Vulnerability 2024-04-15 at 11:31 By Palo Alto Networks has released hotfixes to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), the critical vulnerability is a case of command injection in the GlobalProtect feature

Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more 2024-04-15 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason Microsoft has foreshadowed significant price rises for its Dynamics 365 cloudy business applications.… This article is an excerpt from