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Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans 22/09/2023 at 02:32 By Thomas Claburn Staff with short ‘runways’ told to take off amid shift to corporate chatbots, it’s claimed IBM, which last year insisted “there was (and is) no systemic age discrimination” at the company, has again been sued for age discrimination.… […]

US govt IT help desk techie ‘leaked top secrets’ to foreign nation 22/09/2023 at 01:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle National defense files can earn you $55K … and espionage charges A US government worker has been arrested and charged with spying for Ethiopia, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.… This article is an excerpt from

97% of organizations take over a month to respond to bot attacks 22/09/2023 at 00:01 By A recent report by Netacea analyzed the affect of bot attacks and found that the average business loses 4.3%, of online revenues every year to bots. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View

Beneath Microsoft’s Surface event, AI spreads everywhere 21/09/2023 at 23:48 By Thomas Claburn Windows gets its own Copilot to help operate the operating system – Edge, Bing, Outlook, 365 not spared, either Microsoft on Thursday further co-opted its GitHub subsidiary’s Copilot brand and heralded the arrival of its own Microsoft Copilot as “your everyday AI

Mysterious ‘Sandman’ Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents 21/09/2023 at 23:16 By A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunic koation providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent. Notably, the intrusions leverage a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for the Lua programming

Epic payout: FTC opens Fortnite settlement claim floodgates 21/09/2023 at 22:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Parents and players alike can now apply for a piece of the $245m pie The US Federal Trade Commission has opened up a website so that anyone who feels they were tricked into spending money in Epic Games’ hit shooter Fortnite

TransUnion reckons big dump of customer data came from someone else 21/09/2023 at 22:02 By Chris Williams Prolific info-thief strikes again Days after a miscreant boasted leaking a 3GB-plus database from TransUnion containing financial information on 58,505 people, the credit-checking agency has claimed the info was actually swiped from a third party.… This article is

19% of organizations are prioritizing data visibility and remediation 21/09/2023 at 21:01 By According to a SpyCloud ransomware report, infostealer infections were 22% of ransomware attacks for North American and European companies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA holds cybersecurity exercise in preparation for Super Bowl LVIII 21/09/2023 at 20:46 By CISA, NFL, Allegiant Stadium and Super Bowl LVIII partners held a tabletop exercise this week to enhance cybersecurity response capabilities, plans and procedures. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers 21/09/2023 at 20:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Even the most prominent collections are struggling to maintain demand’ Just a couple of years ago you’d have no trouble finding some celebrity hawking a non-fungible token (NFT) project. But how quickly times change, as now, even websites dedicated to gambling

US DoD serves up $238M Chips Act funding to 8 regional hubs 21/09/2023 at 19:32 By Dan Robinson Hoping to bridge the dreaded ‘lab-to-fab’ gap where R&D dreams go to die The US Department of Defense is investing $238 million in 8 Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hubs as part of Washington’s efforts to boost semiconductor

Researchers Raise Red Flag on P2PInfect Malware with 600x Activity Surge 21/09/2023 at 19:31 By The peer-to-peer (P2) worm known as P2PInfect has witnessed a surge in activity since late August 2023, witnessing a 600x jump between September 12 and 19, 2023. “This increase in P2PInfect traffic has coincided with a growing number of variants seen in

EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle 21/09/2023 at 18:32 By Jude Karabus Makers won’t be able to pull wool over consumers’ eyes, though critics say it hasn’t gone far enough Negotiators from the European Parliament and Council this week began the process of updating EU rules to ensure consumers are better informed about

Hashing It Out: What happens when crypto meets fintech in Africa? 21/09/2023 at 18:02 By Cointelegraph By Elisha Owusu Akyaw The guests on Episode 31 of Hashing It Out believe traditional finance has hurt innovation in the African fintech space and that cryptocurrency can breathe some life into it. This article is an excerpt from

Cisco spends $28B on data cruncher Splunk in cybersecurity push 21/09/2023 at 18:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo $157/share cash deal is the largest acquisition in networking titan’s history Cisco is making its most expensive acquisition ever – by far – with an announcement it’s buying data crunching software firm Splunk for $157 per share, or approximately

Cloud adoption is driving up IT budgets 21/09/2023 at 18:01 By The impact of cloud adoption on IT teams was analyzed in a report, finding that cloud platforms took up significant portions of IT budgets. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec 21/09/2023 at 17:02 By Paul Kunert Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival An Apple fanboi has emerged in the most unlikely of places – Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO at Huawei, the China HQ’d giant whose latest flagship handset is

Korea’s FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing into Samsung ‘unfair’ deal in 2020 21/09/2023 at 16:32 By Laura Dobberstein Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage ‘unfavorable’ long-term parts supply contract South Korea’s Federal Trade Commision (FTC) has issued a $14.3 million fine to US chipmaker Broadcom for “unfair” practices against Samsung Electronics.… This

Multiple Command and Control (C2) Frameworks During Red Team Engagements 21/09/2023 at 16:16 By Philip Pieterse When conducting Red Team engagements, more than one Command and Control (C2) framework would typically be used as part of our delivery process and methodology. We would be unintentionally limiting our options if we only had one Command and

Vodafone claims first space-based 5G phone call – no modifications needed 21/09/2023 at 15:47 By Dan Robinson The roaming charges must be out of this world Vodafone is claiming to have made the world’s first space-based 5G call placed using an unmodified handset, thanks to a test satellite operated by AST SpaceMobile.… This article is