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Infosys co-founder doubles down on call for 70-hour work weeks 2024-01-15 at 10:17 By Laura Dobberstein It’s not like Gandhi ever saw his kids, says Narayana Murthy Indian billionaire and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has doubled down on his comments that India’s youth should voluntarily work 70-hour weeks.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain 2024-01-15 at 08:36 By Simon Sharwood Net-taming firm lets staff go if they’re bad at ‘measurable performance targets’ or aren’t ‘right for the team’, which seems a tad contradictory Cloudflare has defended its HR practices after a former employee posted a nine-minute video of

DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023 2024-01-15 at 08:36 By The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare said

Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms 2024-01-15 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run. Linus Torvalds has indefinitely postponed the merge window for version 6.8 of the Linux kernel after a winter storm knocked out power and

The intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence 2024-01-15 at 07:16 By Artificial intelligence (AI) is a valuable cybersecurity asset, but it’s not a silver bullet. To best leverage AI, we must consider the security teams of the future. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China loathes AirDrop so much it’s publicized an old flaw in Apple’s P2P protocol 2024-01-15 at 05:03 By Simon Sharwood Infosec academic suggests Beijing’s warning that iThing owners aren’t anonymous deserves attention outside the great firewall, too In June 2023 China made a typically bombastic announcement: operators of short-distance ad hoc networks must ensure they

New Findings Challenge Attribution in Denmark’s Energy Sector Cyberattacks 2024-01-14 at 11:46 By The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group, new findings from Forescout show. The intrusions, which targeted around 22 Danish energy organizations in May 2023, occurred in two distinct waves, one

NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane 2024-01-13 at 16:17 By Thomas Claburn Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There’s no room for the sonic boom NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft made its public debut on Friday in a media event at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, where the plane

Critical RCE Vulnerability Uncovered in Juniper SRX Firewalls and EX Switches 2024-01-13 at 13:47 By Juniper Networks has released updates to fix a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-21591, is rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in

29-Year-Old Ukrainian Cryptojacking Kingpin Arrested for Exploiting Cloud Services 2024-01-13 at 12:31 By A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been arrested in connection with running a “sophisticated cryptojacking scheme,” netting them over $2 million (€1.8 million) in illicit profits. The person was apprehended in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on January 9 by the National Police of Ukraine with

Why do IT projects like the UK’s scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? 2024-01-13 at 10:47 By Chris Williams Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three Kettle  This week the incredible scandal that is the UK’s Post Office Horizon computer system, which ruined people’s lives and drove some to suicide, finally exploded

Number of orgs compromised via Ivanti VPN zero-days grows as Mandiant weighs in 2024-01-13 at 04:31 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Snoops had no fewer than five custom bits of malware to hand to backdoor networks Two zero-day bugs in Ivanti products were likely under attack by cyberspies as early as December, according to Mandiant’s threat

This is why we update… Data-thief malware exploits unpatched Windows PCs 2024-01-13 at 02:00 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Phemedrone Stealer loots drives for passwords, cookies, login tokens, etc Criminals are exploiting a Windows Defender SmartScreen bypass vulnerability to infect PCs with Phemedrone Stealer, a malware strain that scans machines for sensitive information – passwords, cookies,

GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered 2024-01-13 at 00:17 By Thomas Claburn Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations The judge overseeing the AI code-copying case filed against GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft has dismissed some but not all of the aggrieved developers’ claims, leaving the plaintiffs a more limited but

The week in weird: Check out the strangest CES tech of 2024 2024-01-12 at 22:37 By Brandon Vigliarolo Cat flap fever, a streaming service for dogs, and other oddities on display in Vegas this week CES  Ah, January: The start of a new year, crisp winter weather (if you live in the northern hemisphere, at

Exploit for under-siege SharePoint vuln reportedly in hands of ransomware crew 2024-01-12 at 21:47 By Connor Jones It’s taken months for crims to hack together a working exploit chain Security experts claim ransomware criminals have got their hands on a functional exploit for a nearly year-old critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability that was this week added

Alabama law firm issues data breach notification 2024-01-12 at 21:01 By An Alabama-based law firm announced that the company experienced a data breach affecting client information, including insurance information. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable 2024-01-12 at 20:46 By Laura Dobberstein Humboldt cable to zoom from Chile to Australia through the South Pacific Google says it is building the first ever subsea cable connecting South America to Asia-Pacific, in partnership with Chilean state-run infrastructure fund Desarrollo Pais and the Office of

Secret multimillion-dollar cryptojacker snared by Ukrainian police 2024-01-12 at 19:31 By Connor Jones Criminal scored $2M in crypto proceeds but ends up in ‘cuffs following property raid The criminal thought to be behind a multimillion-dollar cryptojacking scheme is in custody following a Europol-led investigation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws 2024-01-12 at 18:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo But Congress is on top of that, right? A US federal tax change that took effect in 2022 thanks to a time-triggered portion of the Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may leave entrepreneurs with massive tax bills. … This