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Microsoft Releases October 2023 Patches for 103 Flaws, Including 2 Active Exploits 11/10/2023 at 10:16 By Microsoft has released its Patch Tuesday updates for October 2023, addressing a total of 103 flaws in its software, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 103 flaws, 13 are rated Critical and 90 are […]

Software patch fixes Euclid space telescope navigation bug 11/10/2023 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach Probe goes loopy after mistaking solar rays for stars The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is back to normal and will resume its mission, thanks to a software update that was required after its navigation sensors mistakenly identified solar ray

ASUS thinks outside the 4″ x 4″ box with plans for custom NUCs 11/10/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Commercial customers are in the frame, and gamers aren’t forgotten, as it takes on Intel’s mini PCs Fresh from winning the rights to build machines based on Intel’s quirky little Next Unit of Compute (NUC) mini-PC

APNIC close to completing delegation of its final /8 IPv4 block 11/10/2023 at 07:49 By Simon Sharwood Asian internet registry still has 5M 32-bit addresses from different sources – or practically infinite IPv6s The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) on Monday announced it is close to delegating the last IPv4 addresses in its final /8

Microsoft Warns of Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability 11/10/2023 at 07:31 By Microsoft has linked the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server to a nation-state actor it tracks as Storm-0062 (aka DarkShadow or Oro0lxy). The tech giant’s threat intelligence team said it observed in-the-wild abuse of the

Preventing security training burnout among employees 11/10/2023 at 07:18 By The prevalence of active shooter incidents have forced security leaders to rethink their physical security strategies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Meta watchdog sticks a probe into Facebook rules after fake Biden vid allowed to stay 11/10/2023 at 06:32 By Katyanna Quach Doctored video featured vile false slur, but it wasn’t a deepfake … so that’s OK, then? Meta’s Oversight Board is probing the social media giant’s policies on deepfake content after Facebook decided against taking

Patch Tuesday, October 2023 11/10/2023 at 06:31 By Jeannette Dickens Hale Halloween is arriving and with it, Trustwave’s return to Patch Tuesday reports. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

Intel offers $179 Arc A580 GPU to gamers on a budget 11/10/2023 at 04:47 By Tobias Mann 640K, sorry, 1080p ought to be enough for anybody Intel filled out its Arc graphics portfolio Tuesday with a $179 card aimed at 1080p gamers on a shoestring budget.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Twitter further restricts free tier with option to limit replies to verified accounts 11/10/2023 at 04:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo The digital town square, but with more pay-to-play curbs On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, you can now opt to allow only paying verified accounts to reply to your tweets. Again, it’s more

Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub’s AI Copilot at a loss 11/10/2023 at 03:35 By Tobias Mann Redmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked Analysis  Microsoft is reportedly losing up to $80 a month per user on its GitHub Copilot services.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

It’s 2023 and Microsoft WordPad can be exploited to hijack vulnerable systems 11/10/2023 at 03:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Happy Halloween! Security bugs under attack squashed, more flaws fixed Patch Tuesday  Microsoft on Tuesday issued more than 100 security updates to fix flaws in its products, including two bugs that are already under active attack,

Judge tosses Sonos’s $32.5M patent win over Google with savage slam down 11/10/2023 at 02:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘It is wrong that our system was used to punish an innovator and to enrich a pretender’ A California judge has quashed one of Sonos’s legal victories against Google – and the $32.5 million royalty payout that

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in a future release 11/10/2023 at 01:52 By Thomas Claburn It’s PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release.… This article is an

SBF on trial: The FTX Python code that allegedly let his Alameda hedge fund spend people’s deposits 11/10/2023 at 00:35 By Thomas Claburn And Caroline Ellison says she was told by Bankman-Fried to take $10B from customer accounts At the fraud trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors presented the jury with Python code

HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ zero-day exploited in biggest DDoS deluge seen yet 10/10/2023 at 23:48 By Connor Jones Botnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second A zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol was exploited to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record, according to Cloudflare.… This article is an excerpt

54% of IT leaders believe advances AI systems pose incoming risks 10/10/2023 at 23:32 By IT leaders were surveyed on incoming security risks within the next one to three years, including generative AI, data privacy and third parties.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Threat actors exploit HTTP/2 vulnerability 10/10/2023 at 22:17 By In August of 2023, Cloudflare discovered a zero-day vulnerability developed by an unknown threat actor that exploits the standard HTTP/2 protocol. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Swedish tech biz aims to sail past traffic woes on electric hydrofoils 10/10/2023 at 22:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo But P-12’s production timeline is fuzzy A Swedish technology company thinks it has a solution to the misery of urban commutes, at least for those in cities with good access to waterways: 30-seat, all-electric hydrofoil shuttles that

Mirai reloads exploit arsenal as botnet embarks on another expansion drive 10/10/2023 at 21:17 By Connor Jones With 13 new payloads it’s the biggest update to the botnet in months The infamous Mirai botnet was spotted by researchers who say it is spinning up again, this time with an “aggressively updated arsenal of exploits.”… This