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Twilio reminds users that Authy Desktop apps die next month – not in August 2024-02-15 at 13:47 By Richard Speed ‘This is an excellent way to piss off thousands of developers’ End of life for the Authy Desktop authentication app is scheduled for March 19, rather than the August 2024 date previously announced.… This article […]

How Nation-State Actors Target Your Business: New Research Exposes Major SaaS Vulnerabilities 2024-02-15 at 13:31 By With many of the highly publicized 2023 cyber attacks revolving around one or more SaaS applications, SaaS has become a cause for genuine concern in many boardroom discussions. More so than ever, considering that GenAI applications are, in fact,

UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal 2024-02-15 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely The UK’s Cabinet Office has paused its migration away from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, after ditching the current contract it signed with the Redmond headquartered biz last spring.… This article is an excerpt from

Chinese Hackers Using Deepfakes in Advanced Mobile Banking Malware Attacks 2024-02-15 at 12:31 By A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that’s capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS. “The GoldPickaxe family is available for

HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 2024-02-15 at 11:32 By Paul Kunert Reg metrics show Enrique Lores is worth a lot of ink The Reg family would like to extend our condolences to HP CEO Enrique Lores after his headline financial compensation package for 2023 declined more than 7 percent year-on-year to

Miscreants turn to ad tech to measure malware metrics 2024-02-15 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Now that’s what you call dual-use tech Cyber baddies have turned to ad networks to measure malware deployment and to avoid detection, according to HP Wolf Security.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal 2024-02-15 at 09:32 By Thomas Claburn Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights – a decision

WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age 2024-02-15 at 08:32 By Richard Speed The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover NASA’s Perseverance is having trouble with one of its instruments – which could mean the rover will no longer be able to zap rocks

WTF is ‘deployment phasing’? One reason Cisco revenue just went backwards, is what 2024-02-15 at 08:01 By Simon Sharwood Splunk deal may close early, but AI is a way off turning into a money fountain. Meanwhile, Cisco waits for you to finish projects Cisco has delivered mixed news to investors after its customers yet again

Critical Exchange Server Flaw (CVE-2024-21410) Under Active Exploitation 2024-02-15 at 07:32 By Microsoft on Wednesday acknowledged that a newly disclosed critical security flaw in Exchange Server has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after it released fixes for the vulnerability as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Tracked as CVE-2024-21410 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue has

North Korea now running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service 2024-02-15 at 06:46 By Laura Dobberstein $5k a month for the site. $3k for tech support. Infection with malware and funding a despot? Priceless North Korea’s latest money-making venture is the production and sale of gambling websites that come pre-infected with malware, according to South Korea’s National

In pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Meta adds Broadcom boss Hock Tan to its board 2024-02-15 at 05:44 By Simon Sharwood Zuck needs silicon smarts – and the energy experience of a former Enron exec Social networking company Meta has appointed Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to its board and added energy entrepreneur John Arnold too.…

‘Scandal-plagued’ data broker tracked visits to ‘600 Planned Parenthood locations’ 2024-02-15 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Anti-abortion group said to have used that monitoring to push ad campaign A pro-life group was able to specifically target visitors to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood facilities in 48 states in America with anti-abortion ads using location data from

Slack adds AI to help users cope with chat overload 2024-02-15 at 03:46 By Katyanna Quach Summarizes threads you just can’t keep up with and beefs up search After nearly a year of testing, Salesforce-owned Slack has launched some generative AI features that may help enterprise users search, summarize, and ask questions about information in

Quilter’s AI design service nabs $10M to make circuit board design easier 2024-02-15 at 02:47 By Tobias Mann Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours On Tuesday AI startup Quilter picked up $10 million in series-A funding to use a combination of machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC)

OpenAI shuts down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea accounts caught doing naughty things 2024-02-15 at 02:16 By Katyanna Quach You don’t need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs OpenAI has shut down five accounts it asserts were used by government agents to generate phishing emails and malicious software scripts as well

Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown 2024-02-15 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far The FTC’s antitrust case against Amazon is headed to trial, though not anytime soon, with a federal judge scheduling

Report reveals the 5 fraud threats to watch out for in 2024 2024-02-15 at 00:16 By The report discusses the five fraud threats that are predicted to emerge in 2024.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China’s Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of ‘large’ US city 2024-02-14 at 23:17 By Jessica Lyons Jeez, not now, Xi. Can’t you see we’ve got an election and Ukraine and Gaza and cost of living and layoffs and … The Chinese government’s Volt Typhoon spy team has apparently already compromised a large US

AI won’t take our jobs and it might even save the middle class 2024-02-14 at 22:17 By Thomas Claburn MIT economist argues AI can moderate the inequalities of the Information Age The future described in OpenAI’s mission statement, in which autonomous systems “outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” sounds like a hellscape to MIT