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After FBI Takedown, KV-Botnet Operators Shift Tactics in Attempt to Bounce Back 2024-02-07 at 18:16 By The threat actors behind the KV-botnet made “behavioral changes” to the malicious network as U.S. law enforcement began issuing commands to neutralize the activity. KV-botnet is the name given to a network of compromised small office and home office (SOHO) routers […]

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute 2024-02-07 at 17:47 By Richard Speed Windows encryption feature defeated by $10 and a YouTube tutorial We’re very familiar with the many projects in which Raspberry Pi hardware is used, from giving old computers a new lease of life through to running the animated displays so

TSMC to build second fab in Japan, backed by local investment 2024-02-07 at 17:01 By Dan Robinson Plus: SMIC said to be building new lines to make 5nm process chips designed by Huawei TSMC is set to build a second semiconductor manufacturing plant in Japan with investment from Toyota and other local corporations. The move

Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA’s JPL amid budget black hole 2024-02-07 at 16:16 By Richard Speed Launch windows do not respect political squabbling NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that substantial budget cuts are inbound, with over 500 staffers affected – approximately 8 percent of the workforce.… This article is an

Critical Bootloader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros 2024-02-07 at 16:16 By The maintainers of shim have released version 15.8 to address six security flaws, including a critical bug that could pave the way for remote code execution under specific circumstances. Tracked as CVE-2023-40547 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability could be exploited to achieve a Secure Boot

John Godfrey announced as Kansas Chief Information Security Officer 2024-02-07 at 15:31 By Governor Laura Kelly recently announced that John Godfrey is the new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the State of Kansas.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

JetBrains urges swift patching of latest critical TeamCity flaw 2024-02-07 at 14:47 By Connor Jones Cloud version is safe, but no assurances offered about possible on-prem exploits JetBrains is encouraging all users of TeamCity (on-prem) to upgrade to the latest version following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in the CI/CD tool.… This article is

Bank boss has pay slashed after presiding over tech outages in 2023 2024-02-07 at 14:16 By Laura Dobberstein Singapore’s DBS wants accountability for digital dropouts Singapore banking group DBS has slashed its CEO’s variable pay by 30 percent as an accountability measure after digital disruptions hit the organization in 2023.… This article is an excerpt

HoRNDIS MacGyvers your Mac to get online with Androids 2024-02-07 at 13:17 By Liam Proven Apple makes this harder every macOS release, but there are ways nonetheless FOSS Fest  These days, Macs will only talk to Apple phones to get online out of the box, but you can get around the restrictions if you’re determined

New Webinar: 5 Steps to vCISO Success for MSPs and MSSPs 2024-02-07 at 12:46 By 2024 will be the year of the vCISO. An incredible 45% of MSPs and MSSPs are planning to start offering vCISO services in 2024. As an MSP/MSSP providing vCISO services, you own the organization’s cybersecurity infrastructure and strategy. But you also need

Global Coalition and Tech Giants Unite Against Commercial Spyware Abuse 2024-02-07 at 12:46 By A coalition of dozens of countries, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., along with tech companies such as Google, MDSec, Meta, and Microsoft, have signed a joint agreement to curb the abuse of commercial spyware to commit human rights abuses.

UK government plans to spend over £100M on AI … but copyright code is held up 2024-02-07 at 12:31 By Richard Speed ‘Pro-innovation’ but perhaps not for the folks whose data was trained on The UK government is to spend over £100 million ($125 million) to support regulators and researchers as it publishes its response

How Neuraspace aims to clean up orbital clutter with AI 2024-02-07 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Can tech and regulations beat the great satellite landgrab? Interview  Debris speeding along in orbit is becoming an increasing hazard for spacecraft. We can either ignore the problem and hope it resolves itself or accept there is an issue

The spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns 2024-02-07 at 10:47 By Jessica Lyons ‘Almost zero data being shared across the industry on this particular threat,’ we’re told The commercial spyware economy – despite government and big tech’s efforts to crack down – appears to be booming.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Alaska Airlines’ door-dropping flight was missing bolts 2024-02-07 at 09:48 By Thomas Claburn Preliminary investigation confirms pilot chat was overwritten but doesn’t mention attempts to recover data The door plug that fell out of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 last month wasn’t properly bolted into place, according to a preliminary investigation.… This article is an excerpt

Chinese Hackers Exploited FortiGate Flaw to Breach Dutch Military Network 2024-02-07 at 09:31 By Chinese state-backed hackers broke into a computer network that’s used by the Dutch armed forces by targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices. “This [computer network] was used for unclassified research and development (R&D),” the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) said in a statement.

IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads 2024-02-07 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood They’re measuring server exhaust temperatures to detect power consumption Datacenters make a lot of hot air, and IBM Japan and NTT Group’s in-house integrator NTT Comware think they can use it to calculate power consumption

Critical JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises Flaw Exposes Servers to Takeover – Patch Now 2024-02-07 at 08:31 By JetBrains is alerting customers of a critical security flaw in its TeamCity On-Premises continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software that could be exploited by threat actors to take over susceptible instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23917, carries a CVSS

India to launch android into space to test its crewed launch capability 2024-02-07 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan flies in 2025 India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will send a humanoid robot astronaut into this space this year, then send it back alongside

Closing the gap between physical and cybersecurity 2024-02-07 at 07:19 By With in-person work increasing, security leaders have looked into improving their physical security solutions. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source