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The holiday season sees a rise in credit card skimming 15/11/2023 at 18:47 By Holiday shopping often brings increased risk, and organizations aren’t exempt. According to a recent report, credit card skimming is on the rise. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Aligning cybersecurity & business objectives leads to security success 15/11/2023 at 18:47 By A new benchmark study reveals that aligning cybersecurity organization models with business objectives enables talent retention and security program success. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

U.S. Takes Down IPStorm Botnet, Russian-Moldovan Mastermind Pleads Guilty 15/11/2023 at 18:47 By The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan national behind the operation pleaded guilty. “The botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac,

Q3 2023 sees a rise in botnet activity 15/11/2023 at 18:19 By According to a Nuspire threat report, there was a surge in botnet activity in Q3 2023, including an increase in activity of nearly 93% over Q2. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Intel chips away at carbon footprint but skims over thirst for water, chemicals 15/11/2023 at 18:03 By Dan Robinson Semiconductors are a dirty business Intel has published proposals to tackle its environmental impact, largely focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and moving to renewable energy, but gave less attention to water usage and the harsh

New PoC Exploit for Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Could Let Attackers Fly Under the Radar 15/11/2023 at 17:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new technique that exploits a critical security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to achieve arbitrary code execution in memory. Tracked as CVE-2023-46604 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability is a remote code execution bug that could

6 steps for protecting small businesses from cyberattacks 15/11/2023 at 17:17 By The increased shopping during the holiday season often leads to increased cyberattacks affecting both the organization and their consumers.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a ‘de facto ban’ 15/11/2023 at 17:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle War of words escalates as deadline draws near FBI director Christopher Wray made yet another impassioned plea to US lawmakers to kill a proposed warrant requirement for so-called “US person queries” of data collected via the Feds’

Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing: The 2023 Retail Services Sector Threat Landscape 15/11/2023 at 17:01 By The holiday shopping season is teed up for its annual explosion of spending. Retailers know this, consumers know this, cybercriminals know this, and are unfortunately ready to take advantage of any weak link that can be found to steal vital

The 2023 Retail Services Sector Threat Landscape: A Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing 15/11/2023 at 17:01 By The annual holiday shopping season is poised for a surge in spending, a fact well-known to retailers, consumers, and cybercriminals alike. The latter group, however, is poised to exploit any vulnerabilities they can find to pilfer valuable consumer and

RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge 15/11/2023 at 16:17 By Liam Proven The Hat adds tool to facilitate migration from various free RHEL-a-like distros The latest version of Red Hat’s flagship distro appeared last week, closely followed by Alma Linux 9.3. RHEL 8.9 is coming soon

To pay or not to pay for AI’s creative ‘borrowing’ – that is the question 15/11/2023 at 15:33 By Lindsay Clark One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee In the UK’s Parliament this week, Microsoft and Meta ducked the question of whether creators should be paid when their copyrighted material is

Banned US chipmaking equipment still ending up in China, says report 15/11/2023 at 14:47 By Laura Dobberstein Plus: US execs line up to dine with President Xi US bans on exports of advanced chipmaking equipment to China are not working, according to a report from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.… This article is

Rivian bricks infotainment systems in ‘fat finger’ fiasco 15/11/2023 at 14:02 By Laura Dobberstein Ruh-roh, where did the aircon go? Some drivers of American electric vehicle brand Rivian found themselves on an unexpectedly silent ride at unknown speeds after infotainment and instrument systems failed this week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Three Ways Varonis Helps You Fight Insider Threats 15/11/2023 at 13:46 By What do basketball teams, government agencies, and car manufacturers have in common? Each one has been breached, having confidential, proprietary, or private information stolen and exposed by insiders. In each case, the motivations and methods varied, but the risk remained the same: insiders

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie 15/11/2023 at 13:32 By Richard Speed Nic Cage? Rami Malek? Or maybe Donald Duck? You decide… A biopic of Elon Musk is in the works, with Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of the controversial figure serving as the source. But who should step into

Ransomware more efficient than ever, and baddies are still after your logs 15/11/2023 at 12:33 By Connor Jones Trying times for incident responders who battle fastest-ever ransomware blitz as attackers keep scrubbing evidence clean Organizations are still failing to implement adequate logging measures, increasing the difficulty faced by defenders and incident responders to identify the

Google DeepMind’s GraphCast AI weather predictor looks fascinating on paper but … 15/11/2023 at 11:34 By Katyanna Quach … Even its creators say it ain’t ‘a replacement for traditional forecasting methods’ Google DeepMind claims its latest AI model is capable of generating ten-day weather forecasts in under a minute and is just as accurate as

Reptar: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Impacts Multi-Tenant Virtualized Environments 15/11/2023 at 11:03 By Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the potential to “allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.” Successful exploitation

Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it’s about time 15/11/2023 at 10:33 By Mark Pesce Talking back to devices will end the confusion caused by long menus of functions nobody uses Comment  Software is learning the options you want it to offer, and it’s about time Talking back to