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Experts Warn of Ransomware Hackers Exploiting Atlassian and Apache Flaws 07/11/2023 at 11:00 By Multiple ransomware groups have begun to actively exploit recently disclosed flaws in Atlassian Confluence and Apache ActiveMQ. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said it observed the exploitation of CVE-2023-22518 and CVE-2023-22515 in multiple customer environments, some of which have been leveraged for the deployment of Cerber (aka C3RB3R) ransomware. Both vulnerabilities are […]

Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails… Cloudflare explains that two-day outage 07/11/2023 at 10:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain Cloudflare has explained how it believes it suffered that earlier multi-day control plane and analytics outage.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation 07/11/2023 at 09:03 By Richard Speed But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone IBM’s Red Hat has some good news for UK businesses, with a survey putting Blighty’s businesses ahead of competitors in Germany, France, and Spain

Critical Flaws Discovered in Veeam ONE IT Monitoring Software – Patch Now 07/11/2023 at 08:31 By Veeam has released security updates to address four flaws in its ONE IT monitoring and analytics platform, two of which are rated critical in severity. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-38547 (CVSS score: 9.9) – An unspecified flaw that

Presenting the security program: Win leadership buy-in 07/11/2023 at 08:16 By In the third and final installment of the Security Program Design series, J. Nicole McDargh discusses how to present a security program to leadership. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop 07/11/2023 at 05:02 By Thomas Claburn Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it’s all out there, or so this study says The sensitive personal information of US military personnel and their families is available from US data

Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots 07/11/2023 at 04:35 By Laura Dobberstein Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025 Beijing is issuing guidelines on the development of humanoid robots with the lofty goal of mass producing the technology by 2025 and having a reliable supply chain by 2027.… This article is an excerpt

WhatsApp AI added guns to chat stickers of Palestinians, but not Israelis 07/11/2023 at 04:17 By Katyanna Quach As Meta promises to stop political advertisers from using its generative ML tools In what may be another example of AI bias for future textbooks, WhatsApp’s sticker maker apparently generated violent imagery when asked about Muslim Palestinians

Woman jailed after Rentahitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI 07/11/2023 at 03:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle 18 months in the slammer no laughing matter, but the rest… maybe A 34-year-old woman has been jailed for 18 months after trying to use Rentahitman.com – no, really – to pay a contract killer

You’re next, game devs. Now Microsoft brings a character, story design copilot to Xbox 07/11/2023 at 02:32 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Doritos trials AI software to mute noise of chip-crunching gamers Video  Microsoft today started what it promises will be a multi-year partnership with an AI gaming startup that will let developers use generative neural

ICE faces heat after agents install thousands of personal apps, VPNs on official phones 07/11/2023 at 01:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Audit: Craptastic security could potentially put govt info in hands of enemies America’s immigration cops have pushed back against an official probe that concluded their lax mobile device security potentially put sensitive government information

OpenAI hits the GPT-4 Turbo button plus promises copyright shield for fans 07/11/2023 at 00:34 By Thomas Claburn Neural network lab also plans to open app store with revenue sharing Video  OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and less memorably branded AI models, held its first developer conference on Monday in San Francisco, where it announced a

Bored Ape NFT party is a real eyesore say irritated attendees 06/11/2023 at 22:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo They’re ugly but UV lighting blamed for human damage, not the dumb idea We’ve heard of getting burned by non-fungible tokens (NFTs), but this is a new one: Attendees at a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) event over

Organizations face an average of 86 ransomware attacks annually 06/11/2023 at 22:46 By According to a recent Akamai Technologies report, organizations experienced an average of 86 annual ransomware attacks in the past 12 months. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Data breach and identity protection concerns are at a all time high 06/11/2023 at 22:28 By According to a report, 73% of respondents expressed concerns about their personal and financial data being at risk during holiday shopping. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Epic Games, Google head to court over epic Play Store cut 06/11/2023 at 21:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo Fortnite-maker largely lost against Apple, but can it beat the Chocolate Factory? Another front is opening in Google’s antitrust war today, as a trial between the search giant and Fortnite dev Epic Games over Google’s Play Store fees

New Jupyter Infostealer Version Emerges with Sophisticated Stealth Tactics 06/11/2023 at 21:03 By An updated version of an information stealer malware known as Jupyter has resurfaced with “simple yet impactful changes” that aim to stealthily establish a persistent foothold on compromised systems. “The team has discovered new waves of Jupyter Infostealer attacks which leverage PowerShell command modifications

QNAP Releases Patch for 2 Critical Flaws Threatening Your NAS Devices 06/11/2023 at 21:03 By QNAP has released security updates to address two critical security flaws impacting its operating system that could result in arbitrary code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-23368 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability is described as a command injection bug affecting QTS, QuTS hero, and

Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill 06/11/2023 at 20:05 By Laura Dobberstein Nothing is certain except death and taxes Heirs of Samsung patriarch billionaire Lee Kun-hee are selling approximately US$2 billion (2.6 trillion won) of company shares, reportedly to help pay off the inheritance tax due after his 2020

70% of security leaders see software supply chain as top blind spot 06/11/2023 at 19:32 By According to a cloud native security report by Venafi, 87% percent of security and IT leaders have started moving legacy applications to the cloud. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source