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Researchers Uncover How Outlook Vulnerability Could Leak Your NTLM Passwords 2024-01-29 at 16:10 By A now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Outlook could be exploited by threat actors to access NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hashed passwords when opening a specially crafted file. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-35636 (CVSS score: 6.5), was addressed by the tech […]

GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry 2024-01-29 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson You’re wrong to think that jammin’ was a thing of the past Europe’s aviation safety body is working with the airline industry to counter a danger posed by interference with GPS signals – now seen as a growing

Federal Water and Wastewater Security Incident Response Guide Falls Short 2024-01-29 at 15:02 By Kevin Kerr This week, federal guidelines were published to assist owners and operators in the water and wastewater systems (WWS) sector on best practices for cyber incident response. Guideline are great, but they are just suggestions unless there are the resources

Trusted Domain, Hidden Danger: Deceptive URL Redirections in Email Phishing Attacks 2024-01-29 at 15:02 By Kevin Adriano In this ever-evolving landscape of cyberthreats, email has become a prime target for phishing attacks. Cybercriminals continue to adapt and employ more sophisticated methods to effectively deceive users and bypass detection measures. One of the most prevalent tactics

The real significance of Apple’s Macintosh 2024-01-29 at 14:46 By Liam Proven 40 years on, it’s still widely misunderstood Apple launched the original 128 kB Macintosh around 40 years ago, and in so doing changed the computer industry, in ways that a lot of people still don’t fully understand.… This article is an excerpt from

Cruise being investigated over car crash that dragged victim along the road 2024-01-29 at 14:01 By Katyanna Quach Plus: George Carlin’s family suing creators who used AI to rip off his comedy, and more AI in brief  The US Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission are both launching investigations into the Cruise accident that

Albabat, Kasseika, Kuiper: New Ransomware Gangs Rise with Rust and Golang 2024-01-29 at 14:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have detected in the wild yet another variant of the Phobos ransomware family known as Faust. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which detailed the latest iteration of the ransomware, said it’s being propagated by means of an infection that delivers a

Riding the AI Waves: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence to Combat Cyber Threats 2024-01-29 at 14:01 By In nearly every segment of our lives, AI (artificial intelligence) now makes a significant impact: It can deliver better healthcare diagnoses and treatments; detect and reduce the risk of financial fraud; improve inventory management; and serve up the

493 Companies Share Their SaaS Security Battles – Get Insights in this Webinar 2024-01-29 at 14:01 By In today’s digital world, security risks are more prevalent than ever, especially when it comes to Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Did you know that an alarming 97% of companies face serious risks from unsecured SaaS applications?Moreover,

Native Chrome arrives fashionably late to the Windows on ARM party 2024-01-29 at 13:03 By Richard Speed If a new browser arrives on an OS nobody cares about, did it arrive at all? It was a while coming, but Google has finally made a Windows on ARM-native version of Chrome.… This article is an excerpt

ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch 2024-01-29 at 12:38 By Richard Speed Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed off on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves from space.… This article is an excerpt from

That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century 2024-01-29 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins We’ve been working on the solution for 70 years. It’s there if we want it Opinion  Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x 2024-01-29 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

NSA Admits Secretly Buying Your Internet Browsing Data without Warrants 2024-01-29 at 09:23 By The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to identify the websites and apps Americans use that would otherwise require a court order, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said last week. “The U.S. government

Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models 2024-01-29 at 08:32 By Laura Dobberstein What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud? US-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) operators could soon be required to strengthen know-your-customer (KYC) procedures in

Malicious PyPI Packages Slip WhiteSnake InfoStealer Malware onto Windows Machines 2024-01-29 at 08:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified malicious packages on the open-source Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that deliver an information stealing malware called WhiteSnake Stealer on Windows systems. The malware-laced packages are named nigpal, figflix, telerer, seGMM, fbdebug, sGMM, myGens, NewGends, and TestLibs111.

Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge have converged 2024-01-29 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein Meanwhile, Huawei is hot and bothered by the tech needed to cool datacenters Chinese tech giant Tencent has predicted that high-performance computing (HPC), quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing will soon merge.… This article is an

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion 2024-01-29 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood Kernel 6.8-rc2 debuts after very robust discussion about ‘inodes’ Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.… This article is

Tesla hacks make big bank at Pwn2Own’s first automotive-focused event 2024-01-29 at 03:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns Infosec in brief  Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Tokyo last week, and awarded over $1.3

Competition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber for it 2024-01-28 at 18:03 By Simon Sharwood Suppliers know they can get away with less and the cloud means alternatives are less likely to emerge Comment  HPE’s decision to acquire Juniper is bad news for enterprise IT, as yet another example