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It’s tax season, and scammers are a step ahead of filers, Microsoft says 2024-03-20 at 21:46 By Jessica Lyons Phishing season started early with crims intent on the hooking early filers As the digital wolves dress in sheep’s tax forms, Microsoft has thrown a spotlight on a crafty 2024 phishing expedition, unraveled in January, that […]

US task force aims to plug security leaks in water sector 2024-03-20 at 20:46 By Connor Jones From a trickle to a flood, threats now seen as too great to ignore US government is urging state officials to band together to improve the cybersecurity of the country’s water sector amid growing threats from foreign adversaries.…

DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints 2024-03-20 at 19:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Um. Let’s successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite? All aboard the space train – DARPA has commissioned defense contractor Northrop Grumman to figure out what would be necessary for a railroad network on the Moon.… This article

US may sanction those rumored to be in covert Huawei chip network 2024-03-20 at 19:16 By Dan Robinson Crouching entity list candidate, hidden semiconductor … or that’s the idea, anyway The US government is considering measures against a number of Chinese semiconductor companies linked with technology giant Huawei, in what appears to be further escalation

Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI 2024-03-20 at 18:32 By Lindsay Clark Twitter tipster points to suspicious signs from author producing thousands of recipes Late last year, Sam Altman, the optimistic CEO of chatbot manufacturer OpenAI, predicted artificial general intelligence would be with us in five years,

Michigan school district adopts new gun detection technology 2024-03-20 at 18:16 By A city school district in Michigan has recently adopted a new gun detection technology to reduce the risks of gun violence on school grounds.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

London Clinic probes claim staffer tried to peek at Princess Kate’s records 2024-03-20 at 17:47 By Paul Kunert First: not being able buy a meat pie with a credit card. Now this. The London Clinic where the Princess of Wales had surgery at the start of this year says it is investigating claims that an

New ‘Loop DoS’ Attack Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Systems 2024-03-20 at 17:31 By A novel denial-of-service (DoS) attack vector has been found to target application-layer protocols based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), putting hundreds of thousands of hosts likely at risk. Called Loop DoS attacks, the approach pairs “servers of these protocols in such a way that

Canadian arrested for stealing secret to speedy Tesla battery production, say feds 2024-03-20 at 17:16 By Jude Karabus Special tech allegedly lets Musk’s assembly lines produce 5-10 times more kit than rivals Canadian battery exec Klaus Pflugbeil, a 58-year-old who lives in Ningbo, China, was arrested in Long Island yesterday for trying to sell undercover

The Power Shift – Changing global influence in a year of elections 2024-03-20 at 17:16 By In episode 21 of the Cybersecurity & Geopolitical Discussion, our trio of hosts discuss how modern forces manifest, how much power is truly being wielded, and what effect it is likely to have on a year of elections. This

Serial extortionist of medical facilities pleads guilty to cybercrime charges 2024-03-20 at 16:46 By Connor Jones Robert Purbeck even went as far as threatening a dentist with the sale of his child’s data A cyberattacker and extortionist of a medical center has pleaded guilty to federal computer fraud and abuse charges in the US.… This

15% of adults have been targeted by inheritance scams 2024-03-20 at 16:31 By Payment and financial scams were analyzed in a recent report by Visa, finding that adults were losing more money to scams from June to December 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Intel scores $8.5B in government cheddar to supercharge fab builds 2024-03-20 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Department of Commerce says it’s the largest such investment in US semiconductor manufacturing Intel is set to grab up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and up to $11 billion in loans from the US government under the CHIPS

Stalkerware usage surging, despite data privacy concerns 2024-03-20 at 15:16 By Jessica Lyons At least 31,031 people affected last year Stalkerware has reached “pandemic proportions,” according to Kaspersky, which documented a total of 31,031 people affected by the intrusive software in 2023 – up almost six percent on the prior year.… This article is an

Trustwave SpiderLabs: Artificial Intelligence Playing a Prime Role in BEC and Phishing Attacks 2024-03-20 at 15:16 By Criminals have historically been quick to embrace cutting-edge technology for their financial gain. For instance, the notorious bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde utilized high-powered V-8 engine-equipped Ford cars to outpace local law enforcement. Other criminal groups leveraged telephones

Euclid space telescope needs de-icing 2024-03-20 at 14:47 By Richard Speed Warm water and a scraper not an option when you’re 1.5 million kilometers from home Less than 12 months into its six-year survey mission, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid telescope is experiencing optical issues that require European teams to devise a de-icing procedure.…

A new report predicts the threats that will be most prevalent in 2024 2024-03-20 at 14:16 By A recent report has analyzed emerging threat trends as well as potential trends that may grow in influence in the coming months.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments 2024-03-20 at 14:01 By Richard Currie First they came for McDonald’s and I did not speak out because I have even worse taste in food A princess is AWOL, the government refuses to admit defeat, and now pastry purveyor Greggs is unable to process

TeamCity Flaw Leads to Surge in Ransomware, Cryptomining, and RAT Attacks 2024-03-20 at 13:31 By Multiple threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity software to deploy ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike beacons, and a Golang-based remote access trojan called Spark RAT. The attacks entail the exploitation of CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) that