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Ex-Twitter employees pull Musk back to money table over missing severance 14/09/2023 at 20:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Will Elon actually pay this bill? Lawyers for thousands of ex-Twitter employees who sued for unpaid severance have somehow managed to bring Elon Musk and company back to the negotiating table.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Anna Brackin appointed to Chief Compliance Officer at Regions Bank 14/09/2023 at 20:01 By Anna Brackin has been appointed to Chief Compliance Officer at Regions Bank. Brackin will oversee the company’s compliance risk management program.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Databricks shakes VC money tree and $500M falls out 14/09/2023 at 19:01 By Lindsay Clark Who needs an IPO when you have Series I? Databricks has inhaled $500 million in funding – giving the data platform provider a nominal $43 billion valuation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Rollbar might be good at tracking bugs, uninvited guests not so much 14/09/2023 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Company noticed data warehouse break-in via compromised account a month later Cloud-based bug tracking and monitoring platform Rollbar has warned users that attackers have rifled through their data.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Microsoft Uncovers Flaws in ncurses Library Affecting Linux and macOS Systems 14/09/2023 at 17:49 By A set of memory corruption flaws have been discovered in the ncurses (short for new curses) programming library that could be exploited by threat actors to run malicious code on vulnerable Linux and macOS systems. “Using environment variable poisoning, attackers could chain these

Activist investor to GoDaddy: Cuts costs, improve sales, or sell 14/09/2023 at 17:32 By Paul Kunert Starboard Blue LLC says management failed to create shareholder goodness, ‘change needed’ GoDaddy needs to cut more jobs, reduce the tech budget, and address why it is falling short of financial targets outlined at its shareholder day in 2022,

Ransomware in top three threats for 65% of organizations 14/09/2023 at 17:05 By Ransomware and the threat landscape were analyzed in a report finding that nearly 60% of respondent organizations report an impact to regulated data. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Free Download Manager Site Compromised to Distribute Linux Malware to Users for 3+ Years 14/09/2023 at 16:50 By A download manager site served Linux users malware that stealthily stole passwords and other sensitive information for more than three years as part of a supply chain attack. The modus operandi entailed establishing a reverse shell to

Arm IPO to kick off today with company valued at $54.5 billion 14/09/2023 at 16:31 By Dan Robinson British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only The long anticipated Arm flotation is set to kick off today with shares being offered to the public at $51 apiece, putting a value on the company of $54.5

Stoner Cats NFT project declawed for being an unregistered security 14/09/2023 at 15:51 By Richard Currie You can’t puff puff pass on the Securities Act This week just got worse for married actor couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis – the US Securities and Exchange Commission has set fire to an NFT project they were

Avoid These 5 IT Offboarding Pitfalls 14/09/2023 at 15:23 By Employee offboarding is no one’s favorite task, yet it is a critical IT process that needs to be executed diligently and efficiently. That’s easier said than done, especially considering that IT organizations have less visibility and control over employees’ IT use than ever. Today, employees

Apple’s iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Netherlands and Germany weigh in 14/09/2023 at 15:02 By Richard Speed Europe worried about French safety findings Apple’s woes over the iPhone 12’s electromagnetic waves do not seem to be going away, with more EU countries intending to take another look at the device following France’s decision to

UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM 14/09/2023 at 14:17 By Richard Speed How about the ministers go next? UK citizens wondering if Whitehall civil servants really “get” technology may be heartened to learn that the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology have signed up

N-Able’s Take Control Agent Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation 14/09/2023 at 13:47 By A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able’s Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-27470 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability, which,

Here’s why cloud credentials are the hottest item on criminal marketplaces 14/09/2023 at 13:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle And they cost less than a box of donuts Stolen cloud credentials cost about the same as a dozen donuts, according to IBM X-Force, whose threat intel team says logins make up almost 90 percent of goods

Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps 14/09/2023 at 12:35 By Chris Williams Well, when it’s finished, anyway Google has begun breaking out its Outline proxy client-server code into an SDK so developers can eventually bake the censorship-evading tech into their apps.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Russian Journalist’s iPhone Compromised by NSO Group’s Zero-Click Spyware 14/09/2023 at 12:06 By The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around February

These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks 14/09/2023 at 11:47 By Liam Proven Build a new XT with HDMI graphics or run Windows ME at 4K – because why not? The retro computing hobby is always throwing up innovative ideas and methods… such as a CGA card with HDMI output,

Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster 14/09/2023 at 10:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Black hole stun: They’re more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder Not to alarm anyone, but the nearest black holes to Earth are closer than we previously thought. … This article is an excerpt from The

Amazon unleashes Gen AI for product descriptions, curbs it for Kindle 14/09/2023 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood When you’re shopping from ‘TBMPOY’ or ‘CARWORNIC’ will you even notice the difference? Amazon.com has unleashed a generative AI service for sellers in its supersized souk.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source