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Security’s Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 2024-03-01 at 14:16 By Security magazine’s Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 award program highlights the accomplishments of ten visionary information security leaders across sectors. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers 2024-03-01 at 13:47 By Dan Robinson Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models Lenovo’s chief operating officer has told The Reg it is formalizing a scheme to sell certified refurbished hardware as more customers seek ways to cut their carbon footprint and save money.…

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss 2024-03-01 at 13:16 By More than a decade ago, the concept of the ‘blameless’ postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John Allspaw, who coined the term during his tenure at Etsy, argued postmortems were all about controlling our natural reaction to an incident, which is to

New BIFROSE Linux Malware Variant Using Deceptive VMware Domain for Evasion 2024-03-01 at 13:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called BIFROSE (aka Bifrost) that uses a deceptive domain mimicking VMware. “This latest version of Bifrost aims to bypass security measures and compromise targeted systems,” Palo

UK tax agency’s digital services not good enough to take strain off phone lines 2024-03-01 at 12:48 By Lindsay Clark Watchdog says taxpayer assistance is getting worse Phone services for the UK tax authority continue to deteriorate, and the digital systems that were supposed to take up the slack aren’t good enough.… This article is

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters 2024-03-01 at 11:48 By Dan Robinson Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds Cloud optimization biz CAST AI says that companies are still overprovisioning resources and paying too much as a consequence. It claims that in Kubernetes clusters of 50

AI to fix UK Civil Service’s bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets 2024-03-01 at 09:33 By Katyanna Quach ‘Computer-says-no’ to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data The UK government will trial large language models to help ministers analyze and draft documents as part of a push to overhaul public services using

Five Eyes Agencies Warn of Active Exploitation of Ivanti Gateway Vulnerabilities 2024-03-01 at 09:32 By The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of cyber threat actors exploiting known security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways, noting that the Integrity Checker Tool (ICT) can be deceived

HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide 2024-03-01 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat HPE has blamed disappointing revenue for the quarter on shortages of GPUs and warned investors its previous growth predictions probably won’t happen.… This article is

GitHub Rolls Out Default Secret Scanning Push Protection for Public Repositories 2024-03-01 at 08:16 By GitHub on Thursday announced that it’s enabling secret scanning push protection by default for all pushes to public repositories. “This means that when a supported secret is detected in any push to a public repository, you will have the option

NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak 2024-03-01 at 07:33 By Laura Dobberstein No mere mea culpa would suffice after 9.2 million records leaked over a decade, warnings were ignored, and lies were told NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement

Sushila Nair | Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 2024-03-01 at 07:16 By Sushila Nair, Vice President, Head of Cybersecurity Services, Americas at Capgemini, emphasizes the importance of people in cybersecurity. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Dr. Ryma Abassi | Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 2024-03-01 at 07:16 By Dr. Ryma Abassi, Director of ISET’Com, leads her institution in strengthening cybersecurity education. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Shannon Brewster | Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 2024-03-01 at 07:16 By Executive Director and General Manager at AT&T Cybersecurity Shannon Brewster discusses his cybersecurity career and the role of mentorship in the industry. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Ryan Field | Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 2024-03-01 at 07:16 By Ryan Field, CISO at Bank of Hawaii, discusses the importance of building a strong security community. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Lester Godsey | Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 2024-03-01 at 07:16 By Lester Godsey, Chief Information Security Officer at Maricopa County, discusses his cybersecurity career. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Vietnam may ban virtual assets to fix its bad rep for money laundering 2024-03-01 at 07:04 By Laura Dobberstein Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip sector Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has raised the prospect of prohibiting or regulating virtual assets

Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia 2024-03-01 at 05:49 By Simon Sharwood So much for the ‘commitment to support news organizations’ made in just 2020 Meta has killed its Facebook news service in the United States and Australia.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

India approves its first full wafer fab – a 28nm affair from Tata and Powerchip 2024-03-01 at 04:46 By Simon Sharwood Everybody’s so happy they’re not mentioning start dates, subsidy levels, or other useful details India’s government has approved the construction of the nation’s first semiconductor wafer fabrication plant, to be built by Taiwanese foundry-as-a-service

Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe 2024-03-01 at 03:46 By Tobias Mann Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation It has not been a great week for Google’s Ad business. After being served a €2.1 billion lawsuit in Europe, Canadian regulators have