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NodeStealer Malware Now Targets Facebook Business Accounts on Multiple Browsers 15/09/2023 at 13:46 By An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims’ credentials using a variant of the Python-based NodeStealer and potentially take over their accounts for follow-on malicious activities.  “The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North […]

DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert 15/09/2023 at 13:46 By The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT? IoT

Greater Manchester Police ransomware attack another classic demo of supply chain challenges 15/09/2023 at 12:49 By Richard Speed Are you the weakest link? The UK’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that crooks have got their mitts on some of its data after a third-party supplier responsible for ID badges was attacked.… This article is

Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads 15/09/2023 at 12:48 By The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads signed with Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificates. “This suggests that the threat actors are streamlining operations by making

There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here’s what to consider 15/09/2023 at 11:33 By Lindsay Clark Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Feature  It has been a decade since Amazon RDS launched support for PostgreSQL. Since then, the relational

Meet Honda’s latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase 15/09/2023 at 09:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo The Motocompacto is a successor to the ’81 Motocompo, but with greater ability to deprive its rider of dignity With a growing market for electric scooters, we were expecting manufacturers to all eventually pile in, but Honda arriving on the scene

HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop 15/09/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood There’s a weird one-and-a-half screen laptop mode, too New PC form factors are few and far between, but HP Inc. has tried to shake things up with a foldable device called the Spectre Foldable PC that can be a 12.3-inch laptop, or a

Cybercrime Never Takes a Vacation. Cybersecurity in the Hospitality Industry 15/09/2023 at 08:02 By The Trustwave SpiderLabs team conducted a multi-month investigation into the cyber threats facing the hospitality industry worldwide and has released a detailed report displaying how threat actors conduct attacks, the methodologies used, and what organizations can do to protect themselves from

Iranian Nation-State Actors Employ Password Spray Attacks Targeting Multiple Sectors 15/09/2023 at 07:33 By Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023, new findings from Microsoft reveal. The tech giant, which is tracking the activity under the name Peach Sandstorm (formerly Holmium), said the adversary pursued

Security’s important place in the broader digital trust ecosystem 15/09/2023 at 07:15 By Security & cybersecurity practitioners have a major part to play in the overarching priority of advancing digital trust at their organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Oracle cloud database hardware to reside in Azure datacenters and Microsoft’s good with that 15/09/2023 at 06:36 By Simon Sharwood Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency for data moving from DB to AI The same Oracle cloud hardware that Big Red uses to run databases in its own hyperscale cloud will

Big Tech offers free training courses on India’s new digital skills platform 15/09/2023 at 05:18 By Laura Dobberstein Mobile-first service aims to bring e-learning to the masses, covering tech and plenty more India on Wednesday launched a government-supported e-learning and job posting service, Skill India Digital (SID), that includes free courses from the likes of

Post-IPO, Arm to push purpose-built almost-processors 15/09/2023 at 04:11 By Tobias Mann British chip design biz plans to satisfy investors by seeking new customers, while RISC-V and China are already challenges Comment  The Arm that listed on the Nasdaq Thursday is a very different operation to the one Softbank took private in 2016, because the

US-Canada water org confirms ‘cybersecurity incident’ after ransomware crew threatens leak 15/09/2023 at 03:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle NoEscape promises ‘colossal wave of problems’ if IJC doesn’t pay up The International Joint Commission, a body that manages water rights along the US-Canada border, has confirmed its IT security was targeted, after a ransomware gang claimed

Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that’s a decade for everyone else 15/09/2023 at 01:34 By Thomas Claburn I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion… Google said Thursday it will provide a decade of service updates for recent model Chromebooks, a policy change that reflects

NASA wants to believe … that you can help it crack UFO mysteries 15/09/2023 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn Is there nothing crowdsourcing can’t solve? NASA on Thursday released its final report on how to best study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and the US space agency wants to hear more from the hoi polloi, or

Caesars says cyber-crooks stole customer data as MGM casino outage drags on 14/09/2023 at 23:19 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Zero-days are so 2022. Why not just social engineer the help desk? Casino giant Caesars Entertainment has confirmed miscreants stole a database containing customer info, including driver license and social security numbers for a “significant number”

How do security leaders prepare for quantum computing? 14/09/2023 at 22:15 By Listen to this episode of The Security Podcasts with Greg Wetmore, VP of Software Development at Entrust, as he discusses quantum computing. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The Pentagon has no idea how to deal with bad cloud contracts, say auditors 14/09/2023 at 22:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bad IT practices at the DoD? You don’t say Pointing out IT failures at the US Department of Defense is like shooting fish in a barrel, but here we are with another in the crosshairs:

Liquidation cascade puts crypto market into shock: Report 14/09/2023 at 21:06 By Cointelegraph By Cointelegraph Research Venture capital inflows decreased 42.7% as derivatives saw one of the largest liquidation events in crypto. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source