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New Variant of Banking Trojan BBTok Targets Over 40 Latin American Banks 22/09/2023 at 18:17 By An active malware campaign targeting Latin America is dispensing a new variant of a banking trojan called BBTok, particularly users in Brazil and Mexico. “The BBTok banker has a dedicated functionality that replicates the interfaces of more than 40 Mexican […]

FYI: Those fancy ‘Google-designed’ TPU AI chips had an awful lot of Broadcom help 22/09/2023 at 17:37 By Tobias Mann And Meta’s tapping up Big B too – it’s big bucks for this silicon giant Comment  A now-challenged report that Google wants to end its reliance on Broadcom has drawn attention to the role the

S&P 500 companies find gaps in their cybersecurity leadership 22/09/2023 at 17:31 By A report found that S&P 500 organizations have gaps in their cybersecurity leadership (CISOs and/or CIOs) when it comes to risk mitigation. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Human-readable code: Why branding is the programming language of humans 22/09/2023 at 17:02 By Cointelegraph By German Ramirez Successful firms know that branding and marketing don’t happen by magic or according to checklist-type formulae. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

57% of LockBit victims were organizations with 200 employees or fewer 22/09/2023 at 16:47 By A Trend Micro Incorporated report found that many ransomware actors are targeting smaller organizations that have 200 or fewer employees. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

European Commission hits Intel with new fine over antitrust findings 22/09/2023 at 16:32 By Dan Robinson What a difference a year makes: in June ’22 it was asking for half a billion in interest back after a successful appeal The European Commission has re-imposed a fine of €376.36 million (about $400 million) on chipmaker Intel

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK 22/09/2023 at 15:47 By Jude Karabus Travelers told routine work being performed nationwide Thousands of travelers are stuck at UK airports as the dual gremlins of “planned maintenance” for eGates and air traffic control restrictions led to delayed and canceled flights along with long queues

Best practices for effectively securing sensitive data 22/09/2023 at 15:17 By This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CMA says new Microsoft-Activision deal addresses concerns 22/09/2023 at 14:32 By Richard Currie Meet gaming’s power couple, with Ubisoft the third wheel. Now competition watchdog must ensure Windows biz keep promises Microsoft is busy plumping cushions in anticipation of its new gaming bedfellow Activision Blizzard after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said most of

How to Interpret the 2023 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Results 22/09/2023 at 14:31 By Thorough, independent tests are a vital resource for analyzing provider’s capabilities to guard against increasingly sophisticated threats to their organization. And perhaps no assessment is more widely trusted than the annual MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation.  This testing is critical for evaluating vendors because

Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech 22/09/2023 at 13:02 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you Opinion  I run my computers until they die. I’m cheap that way and it’s one reason why I’m a Linux fan. Thanks to

Iranian Nation-State Actor OilRig Targets Israeli Organizations 22/09/2023 at 13:01 By Israeli organizations were targeted as part of two different campaigns orchestrated by the Iranian nation-state actor known as OilRig in 2021 and 2022. The campaigns, dubbed Outer Space and Juicy Mix, entailed the use of two previously documented first-stage backdoors called Solar and Mango, which were

High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Atlassian Products and ISC BIND Server 22/09/2023 at 12:16 By Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed several security flaws impacting their products that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The Australian software services provider said that the four high-severity flaws were fixed in new versions

If you’re cautious about using ML and bots at work, that’s not a bad idea 22/09/2023 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach Alex Stamos: ‘We don’t really know what’s gonna go wrong with AI yet’ DataGrail Summit  Generative AI is uncharted territory, and those wishing to explore it need to be aware of the dangers, privacy

The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension 22/09/2023 at 09:02 By Laura Dobberstein SK hynix and Samsung do so much memory-making in China, ending sanction exemptions would be extraordinary South Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the future of Chinese export

ESA gets the job of building Europe’s secure satcomms network 22/09/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood IRIS2 oversight deal signed as constellation’s schedule slips, and Ariane 6 hits another snag The European Space Agency has signed up to build and launch the European Union’s Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite constellation.… This article

Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk’s multiple messes 22/09/2023 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the ‘Fediverse’ Mastodon, the open-source Twitter-like federated social network server, has issued a major release that adds features aimed at making life easier for new users.… This article is an excerpt from The

The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right 22/09/2023 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood Fanboi numbers are well down – but Apple’s queueing system, rather than apathy, is likely the cause First Fondle  The iPhone 15 is predictably lovely – but the larger

Apple Rushes to Patch 3 New Zero-Day Flaws: iOS, macOS, Safari, and More Vulnerable 22/09/2023 at 05:17 By Apple has released yet another round of security patches to address three actively exploited zero-day flaws impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari, taking the total tally of zero-day bugs discovered in its software this year to

Amazon’s ‘protects’ against junk AI e-books by limiting author-bots to three a day 22/09/2023 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach Somehow still ‘committed to providing the best possible reading and publishing experience’ Amazon has given “authors” who crank out books license to “write” and publish up to three tomes every day via its platform, even if