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Yonah Alexander | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Yonah Alexander, Director of the Potomac Institute’s International Center for Terrorism Studies, records historical violence to stop the past repeating itself. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Scott Ashworth | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Scott Ashworth, Head of Safety and Security at Overtime Elite, recalls his work as a police officer and the transition into sports security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Robert Soderberg | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Robert Soderberg, Vice President of Enterprise Safety & Security & Chief Safety, Security & Resiliency Officer at Adtalem Global Education, recalls his career. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Michael Dorn | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Michael Dorn, Executive Director at Safe Havens International, recounts his 40-plus years in the security industry and the lessons he’s learned along the way. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Matthew Horace | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Matthew Horace, Chief Security Officer at Pretium & Progress Residential, has championed security across the government, healthcare and technology sectors. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Want tunes with that? India-made POS terminal includes a speaker 05/09/2023 at 06:17 By Simon Sharwood You read that right: a speaker. Because merchants like music, electronic payments, and $8.50 hardware Indian payments outfit Paytm has launched a point-of-sale unit that incorporates, of all things, a speaker.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

The only thing launched for Amazon’s Project Kuiper is a lawsuit 04/09/2023 at 20:47 By Richard Speed Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk… not the bestest of buddies? An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit on the company alleging it didn’t do its due diligence when it awarded launch contracts for the company’s Project Kuiper satellite

Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API 04/09/2023 at 19:49 By Richard Speed One more reason to keep them short and sweet Microsoft has announced billing in public preview for Teams recording and transcription APIs, with pricing starting at 3 cents per minute for recordings.… This article is an

Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm’s Windows 7 rig 04/09/2023 at 18:32 By Richard Speed Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest The risk of running obsolete code and hardware was highlighted after attackers exfiltrated data from a UK supplier of high-security fencing for military bases. The initial entry point? A Windows

Hackers Exploit MinIO Storage System Vulnerabilities to Compromise Servers 04/09/2023 at 17:32 By An unknown threat actor has been observed weaponizing high-severity security flaws in the MinIO high-performance object storage system to achieve unauthorized code execution on affected servers. Cybersecurity and incident response firm Security Joes said the intrusion leveraged a publicly available exploit chain

Microsoft calls time on ancient TLS in Windows, breaking own stuff in the process 04/09/2023 at 17:18 By Richard Speed Hold onto your SQL Server, enterprise admins Microsoft has reminded users that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will soon be disabled by default in Windows.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

X (Twitter) to Collect Biometric Data from Premium Users to Combat Impersonation 04/09/2023 at 16:47 By X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, has updated its privacy policy to collect users’ biometric data to tackle fraud and impersonation on the platform. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information

ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century 04/09/2023 at 16:32 By Liam Proven When your ’90s nostalgia craves a modern touch In the OS/2 world, ArcaOS 5.1 is a long-awaited release which enables this 32-bit OS from the late 20th century to run on modern PC hardware.… This article is

Northern Irish cops release 2 men after Terrorism Act arrests linked to data breach 04/09/2023 at 15:46 By Jude Karabus Came in wake of the force publishing their own people’s data in botched FoI Nearly four weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) published data on 10,000 employees in a botched response to

Everything You Wanted to Know About AI Security but Were Afraid to Ask 04/09/2023 at 14:47 By There’s been a great deal of AI hype recently, but that doesn’t mean the robots are here to replace us. This article sets the record straight and explains how businesses should approach AI. From musing about self-driving cars

So you want to save energy? Ditch web apps and go native, boffins say 04/09/2023 at 13:46 By Thomas Claburn Take up less CPU time and memory? What amazing tech is this?! Eggheads at Vrije Universiteit (VU) in the Netherlands recommend that people with Android devices use native apps rather than web apps when viewing

IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them? 04/09/2023 at 12:47 By Rupert Goodwins Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough Opinion  Knowing when the universe is trying to tell you something is a core competency for many paths through life. You can’t pass an exam in that, sadly,

Vietnamese Cybercriminals Targeting Facebook Business Accounts with Malvertising 04/09/2023 at 12:19 By Malicious actors associated with the Vietnamese cybercrime ecosystem are leveraging advertising-as-a-vector on social media platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook to distribute malware. “Threat actors have long used fraudulent ads as a vector to target victims with scams, malvertising, and more,” WithSecure researcher Mohammad

Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt’s £12B shopping spree 04/09/2023 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year The UK government has begun laying the groundwork for new technology buying arrangements which could become the vehicle for

Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage 04/09/2023 at 10:02 By Simon Sharwood Just three people were on duty in Australia when ‘power sag’ struck and software failures left them blind Microsoft’s preliminary analysis of an incident that took out its Australia East cloud region last week – and which appears