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Sweating the assets: Maximizing cybersecurity investments for greater ROI 03/10/2023 at 15:17 By In the wake of budget cuts and economic uncertainties, recent findings highlight a promising trend: cybersecurity budgets are on the rise once again. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Target set to close 9 stores: The effects of organized retail crime 03/10/2023 at 15:17 By Target cites an increase in ORC as contributing factor leading to an unsafe environment for employees and making business unsustainable. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA kicks off 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month 03/10/2023 at 15:17 By Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced the kickoff of the 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA adds latest Chrome zero-day to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog 03/10/2023 at 15:02 By Connor Jones Chrome’s second zero-day of the month puts fed security at ‘significant risk’ The US’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the latest actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting Google Chrome to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog.… This

Microsoft kills its classic Azure DaaS, because it isn’t really Azure 03/10/2023 at 14:33 By Simon Sharwood Users get three-year deprecation and migration warning Microsoft will deprecate the classic edition of its Azure Virtual Desktop desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and has given customers three years to keep using the service before they’ll need to find an alternative.…

And now for something completely different: Python 3.12 03/10/2023 at 13:47 By Thomas Claburn Nobody expects more flexible string parsing Python 3.12, the latest stable release of the Python programming language, was released on Monday, offering developers a handful of new capabilities and the removal of some cruft.… This article is an excerpt from The

Researcher Reveals New Techniques to Bypass Cloudflare’s Firewall and DDoS Protection 03/10/2023 at 13:47 By Firewall and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack prevention mechanisms in Cloudflare can be circumvented by exploiting gaps in cross-tenant security controls, defeating the very purpose of these safeguards, it has emerged. “Attackers can utilize their own Cloudflare accounts to abuse the

UK splashes £4B to dive into next-gen nuclear submarines 03/10/2023 at 13:05 By Richard Speed Detailed design and long lead contracts signed off for SSN-AUKUS project The UK government has signed off on contracts worth £4 billion ($4.8 billion) to start the design and long lead phase for building the next generation of nuclear-powered attack

MongoDB promises to keep its hands off application building 03/10/2023 at 12:34 By Lindsay Clark Yet history tells us it’s an ever present temptation to grab greater chunks of the stack Rather than MongoDB’s AI-powered SQL converter, natural language queries, or ML visualization releases, it’s the document database company’s strategy for vertical markets that is

UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon 03/10/2023 at 11:48 By Paul Kunert Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing The Reg can reveal that UK’s comms regulator Ofcom is expected to refer the findings of its six-month inquiry into

Microsoft Defender ‘finally’ stops flagging Tor Browser as malware 03/10/2023 at 10:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Just because you’re paranoid… We’re sure you’ll be pleased to know Microsoft Defender has stopped mistakenly breaking the latest version of Tor Browser. The antivirus tool had flagged and quarantined the application’s core tor.exe program as a trojan, causing

ESA delays Vega-C’s return after nozzle design fails tests 03/10/2023 at 09:33 By Laura Dobberstein Eurolauncher won’t fly again until 2024 as it awaits another redesign The Vega-C rocket will not return to launch until late 2024 because a test on a redesigned nozzle failed, the European Space Agency revealed on Monday.… This article is

Arm Issues Patch for Mali GPU Kernel Driver Vulnerability Amidst Ongoing Exploitation 03/10/2023 at 08:47 By Arm has released security patches to contain a security flaw in the Mali GPU Kernel Driver that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4211, the shortcoming impacts the following driver versions – Midgard GPU Kernel Driver:

Google doubles minimum RAM and disk in ‘Chromebook Plus’ spec 03/10/2023 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood Some may be made in India, where the Big G has teamed to make kit with HP Google has added a ‘Plus’ designation to its Chromebook spec that requires machines to offer at least an Intel Core i3 12th

Japan drives for infosec self-sufficiency – at least in one layer of deep defenses 03/10/2023 at 05:48 By Simon Sharwood CYNEX Alliance brings industry, government, and academia together to share info and devise tools Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology yesterday launched the CYNEX Alliance – an entity charged with fostering local development

Co-founder of collapsed crypto biz Three Arrows cuffed at airport 03/10/2023 at 04:33 By Laura Dobberstein Plus: Philippine state health insurance knocked offline by ransomware, China relaxes data export laws, and more Asia in brief  Zhu Su, co-founder of fallen crypto business Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested last Friday at Changi Airport in Singapore

Apple blames iOS 17 bug for iPhone 15 heating problems 03/10/2023 at 03:47 By Katyanna Quach Fixes about to flow, perhaps along with an iSearch engine Apple has warned that a bug in the iOS 17 software powering its latest iPhone 15 Pro model is causing smartphones to overheat.… This article is an excerpt from

US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors 03/10/2023 at 02:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo End-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China’s hunting The US Department of State has largely failed to implement an effective cybersecurity risk program, auditors concluded in a report last week. That means

Watermarking AI images to fight misinfo and deepfakes may be pretty pointless 03/10/2023 at 01:04 By Thomas Claburn Basically, it’s ‘not going to work’ Exclusive  In July, the White House announced that seven large tech players have committed to AI safety measures, including the deployment of watermarking to ensure that algorithmically-generated content can be distinguished

Feds hopelessly behind the times on ransomware trends alert to industry 03/10/2023 at 00:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Better late than never, we guess An urgent ransomware warning from the Feds has some industry analysts scratching their heads and wondering if Uncle Sam’s noggin has been buried in the sand for too long.… This article