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Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about ‘corporate greed’ 14/12/2023 at 15:33 By Paul Kunert Flags up potential job cuts, price hikes, and national security issues Union Unite thinks the proposed merger in Britain of telcos Vodafone and Three would results in thousands of people losing their jobs, price hikes for customers, […]

Reimagining Network Pentesting With Automation 14/12/2023 at 15:22 By Network penetration testing plays a crucial role in protecting businesses in the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity. Yet, business leaders and IT pros have misconceptions about this process, which impacts their security posture and decision-making.  This blog acts as a quick guide on network penetration testing, explaining

Money-grubbing crooks abuse OAuth – and baffling absence of MFA – to do financial crimes 14/12/2023 at 14:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Business email compromise, illicit cryptomining, phishing … if it makes a dollar, this lot do it Multiple miscreants are misusing OAuth to automate financially motivated cyber crimes – such as business email compromise

Russian SVR-Linked APT29 Targets JetBrains TeamCity Servers in Ongoing Attacks 14/12/2023 at 14:16 By Threat actors affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have targeted unpatched JetBrains TeamCity servers in widespread attacks since September 2023. The activity has been tied to a nation-state group known as APT29, which is also tracked as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa,

Surprise! Email from personal. [email protected] is not going to contain good news 14/12/2023 at 13:07 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Internet plod highlight tactics used by cruel Karakurt crime gang Karakurt, a particularly nasty extortion gang that uses “extensive harassment” to pressure victims into handing over millions of dollars in ransom payments after compromising their IT

Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees 14/12/2023 at 12:03 By Thomas Claburn If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it’ll be classified as a job Millions of contractors for digital platforms – often referred to as gig workers – may soon be classified as employees

UK government woefully unprepared for ‘catastrophic’ ransomware attack 14/12/2023 at 11:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Extortionware ‘relentlessly deprioritized’ and even King Charles seems oblivious to danger, scathing report finds The UK has failed to address the threat posed by ransomware, leaving the country at the mercy of a catastrophic ransomware attack that the Joint Committee on

New Hacker Group ‘GambleForce’ Tageting APAC Firms Using SQL Injection Attacks 14/12/2023 at 10:16 By A previously unknown hacker outfit called GambleForce has been attributed to a series of SQL injection attacks against companies primarily in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region since at least September 2023. “GambleForce uses a set of basic yet very effective techniques, including SQL

SAP admits attempt to adapt on-prem security for its cloud flopped 14/12/2023 at 10:02 By Simon Sharwood Software giant learned the hard way that lift-and-shift isn’t easy SAP has revealed that its attempts to create an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tool for its cloud “was abandoned after a year and a half as a

Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Crack Down on Storm-1152’s Cybercrime Network 14/12/2023 at 09:16 By Microsoft on Wednesday said it obtained a court order to seize infrastructure set up by a group called Storm-1152 that peddled roughly 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and tools through a network of bogus websites and social media pages to

GM’s Cruise sheds nine execs in the name of safety and integrity 14/12/2023 at 09:02 By Laura Dobberstein Robotaxi firm’s car ran over a woman, then it allegedly misled investigators GM’s self-driving taxi outfit, Cruise, has dismissed nine execs – including its chief operating officer – after staff withheld information regarding an incident in which

AI security risks: Separating hype from reality 14/12/2023 at 08:15 By By investing in artificial intelligence training and the necessary tools, security professionals can harness the power of AI to enhance their capabilities. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription cancellation practices 14/12/2023 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results Adobe has revealed it may have to fork out “significant monetary costs or penalties” as a result of a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of its subscription cancellation practices.…

FCC really, truly won’t give SpaceX nearly a billion bucks for Starlink rural broadband 14/12/2023 at 05:47 By Katyanna Quach You Musk be joking, says legal veep The US Federal Communications Commission is continuing to reject SpaceX’s $885 million bid to supply wireless broadband to rural areas via its Starlink internet satellites – much to

Like Microsoft, Google can’t stop its cloud from pouring AI all over your heads 14/12/2023 at 02:47 By Katyanna Quach Here comes Gemini Pro, Duet for devs and BOFHs, picture-emitting Imagen 2, MedLM for healthcare Google popped a bunch of AI models onto its cloud platform on Wednesday for folks to try out and perhaps

Tesla to remote patch 2M vehicles after damning Autopilot safety probe 13/12/2023 at 20:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo ADAS controls ‘insufficient to prevent misuse,’ US watchdog finds after 2-year investigation The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) investigation into safety risks associated with Tesla’s Autopilot have concluded with a recall of more than two million

39% of security leaders cite phishing as most feared cyberattack 13/12/2023 at 20:01 By Security leaders were surveyed about cyberattack response. According to the report, 39% indicated phishing is the most feared cyberattack. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Solar wind gave Mars a breather and its magnetosphere inflated 13/12/2023 at 19:47 By Richard Speed NASA’s long-lived MAVEN probe was there taking notes NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission has observed an abrupt and dramatic drop in the solar wind, resulting in an expansion of the Martian atmosphere and magnetosphere by thousands

BazaCall Phishing Scammers Now Leveraging Google Forms for Deception 13/12/2023 at 18:46 By The threat actors behind the BazaCall call back phishing attacks have been observed leveraging Google Forms to lend the scheme a veneer of credibility. The method is an “attempt to elevate the perceived authenticity of the initial malicious emails,” cybersecurity firm Abnormal Security said in a

Top physical security predictions for 2024 13/12/2023 at 18:31 By After reflecting on top physical security trends in 2023, security leaders share their physical security concerns and predictions for 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source