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AI to replace 2.4 million jobs in the US by 2030, many fewer than other forms of automation 07/09/2023 at 03:03 By Katyanna Quach It’s not all bad news. Poets are safe. And machines will take some jobs no human wants Generative AI will replace 2.4 million US jobs by 2030, and influence another eleven […]

Microsoft: China stole secret key that unlocked US govt email from crash debug dump 07/09/2023 at 02:01 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Mistakes were made, lessons learned, stuff now fixed, says Windows maker Remember that internal super-secret Microsoft security key that China stole and used to break into US government email accounts back in July? … This

Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas 07/09/2023 at 00:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone? Google is moving its annual Cloud Next conference, which just finished wrapping up in San Francisco, to the quiet and modest streets of Las Vegas.…

Guy who ran Bitcoins4Less tells Feds he had less than zero laundering protections 06/09/2023 at 23:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle What? Yogurt Monster isn’t really a legitimate customer’s name?! A California man has admitted he failed to bake anti-money laundering protections into his cryptocurrency exchange, thus allowing scammers and drug traffickers to launder millions of

Judge greenlights $5.9M unpaid overtime Citrix wage deal 06/09/2023 at 23:02 By Jude Karabus Agreement will settle claims the company failed to compensate staff for all the hours they worked A federal judge in North Carolina has authorized a $5.9 million settlement agreement between Citrix and workers who launched a pair of consolidated unpaid overtime

Authenticating like the transportation security administration 06/09/2023 at 22:30 By Identity authentication used by the Transportation Security Administration and financial institutions can be implemented in other areas of security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google settles another Play Store antitrust case 06/09/2023 at 22:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Perhaps the Chocolate Factory didn’t feel like staring down 36 state AGs with two other competition cases pending Google’s antitrust docket is one case lighter, as it’s reached a tentative deal with 36 states and Washington, D.C. to settle a case alleging

Scared of flying? Good news! Software glitches keep aircraft on the ground 06/09/2023 at 21:17 By Richard Speed NATS explains last week’s UK chaos as bug delays 211 United Airlines flights It has been a bad few days for anyone with a fear of flying or, perhaps more accurately, a fear of getting to an

94% of organizations don’t have full visibility into service accounts 06/09/2023 at 20:47 By Identity security was analyzed in a report by Silverfort finding the identity attack surface as the most significant gap in cybersecurity resilience. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Bane of Big Tech, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, steps away for a bit 06/09/2023 at 20:01 By Richard Speed Is that a relieved sob from Google lawyers we hear? Margrethe Vestager is temporarily stepping down as European Commissioner for Competition to campaign for a job as President of the Management Committee of the European

When humans are the weak link in critical infrastructure cybersecurity 06/09/2023 at 19:47 By This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files 06/09/2023 at 19:17 By Paul Kunert Did you potentially miss the love match of your life in week-long blackout? Nope, nobody could access it If you got snubbed by the object of your affections on dating app Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB) in late August,

Nominations for Top Cybersecurity Leader 2024 are now open 06/09/2023 at 19:01 By The submission form for Security magazine’s Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 is now open until November 17, 2023 with awardees named in March 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Windows File Explorer gets nostalgic speed boost thanks to one weird bug 06/09/2023 at 18:32 By Richard Speed A glitch that makes the lives of users better? Where do we sign? An exploit for a bug in Windows appears to increase the performance of File Explorer in Microsoft’s flagship operating system.… This article is an

Zero-Day Alert: Latest Android Patch Update Includes Fix for Newly Actively Exploited Flaw 06/09/2023 at 17:33 By Google has rolled out monthly security patches for Android to address a number of flaws, including a zero-day bug that it said may have been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-35674, the high-severity vulnerability is described as a

Alert: Phishing Campaigns Deliver New SideTwist Backdoor and Agent Tesla Variant 06/09/2023 at 17:33 By The Iranian threat actor tracked as APT34 has been linked to a new phishing attack that leads to the deployment of a variant of a backdoor called SideTwist. “APT34 has a high level of attack technology, can design different intrusion methods

Chinese meme-makers crown US Commerce Secretary as Huawei brand ambassador 06/09/2023 at 17:17 By Richard Currie Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of Uncle Sam’s actions Chinese netizens have been laughing at the expense of US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, who will be surprised to learn that she has been crowned unofficial

Anti-scraping policies and data privacy 06/09/2023 at 17:17 By Listen to this episode of The Security Podcasts with Oded Anderman, Program Manager in Meta Platform’s Privacy organization, on data scraping. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Meatbag mishaps more menacing than malware? CISOs think so 06/09/2023 at 16:27 By Richard Speed Company boards, on the other hand, aren’t letting cybersecurity disturb their sleep as much Chief information security officers (or CISOs) see human error as the most significant risk to data protection compared to other UK board directors.… This article is

A Bucket of Phish: Attackers Shift Tactics with Cloudflare R2 Public Buckets 06/09/2023 at 16:02 By Karla Agregado In our previous blog, we found a lot of phishing and scam URLs abusing Cloudflare services using pages.dev and workers.dev domains, respectively. We’re now seeing a lot of phishing emails with URLs abusing another Cloudflare service which