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The Impact of Patient Care on Healthcare Cybersecurity Practices 09/08/2023 at 17:03 By The role humans play in cybersecurity generally focuses on how people can be the weakest link in an organization’s defense structure. However, when it comes to securing the healthcare industry, people are still paramount, but for quite different reasons. This article is […]

Northern Ireland police may have endangered its own officers by posting details online in error 09/08/2023 at 16:02 By Dan Robinson At least it was a blunder and not a hostile attack, unlike what happened to another UK public body this week A spreadsheet containing details of serving Northern Ireland police officers was mistakenly posted

Organizations concerned about enterprise security from unsafe VPNs 09/08/2023 at 15:31 By A recent report reveals that organizations have concerns about their network security due to the risks from VPNs. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks 09/08/2023 at 15:01 By Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said it’s introducing a second user setting to turn off

Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) 09/08/2023 at 15:01 By Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today’s modern security operations center (SOC), it’s a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both are using tools and expertise – however, the cybercriminals have the

Sparkling fresh updates to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin on way 09/08/2023 at 14:48 By Liam Proven What’s new in the world of Irish Ubuntu derivatives It seems to be kernel update season out there. The current Ubuntu LTS gets a new kernel, Zorin OS 17 gets a new point release – and Mint announces two

It’s that time of the year again: the trinity of infosec conferences 09/08/2023 at 13:50 By Iain Thomson A quick guide to Hacker Summer Camp Black Hat  Another year, another Hacker Summer Camp – the collective phrase for BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON, the infosec conference trinity that traditionally takes place around about this

Microsoft Releases Patches for 74 New Vulnerabilities in August Update 09/08/2023 at 13:49 By Microsoft has patched a total of 74 flaws in its software as part of the company’s Patch Tuesday updates for August 2023, down from the voluminous 132 vulnerabilities the company fixed last month. This comprises six Critical and 67 Important security vulnerabilities. Also

New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks 09/08/2023 at 13:49 By Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said it’s introducing a second user setting to turn off

U.K. Electoral Commission Breach Exposes Voter Data of 40 Million Britons 09/08/2023 at 13:49 By The U.K. Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a “complex” cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for over a year, allowing the threat actors to access years worth of voter data belonging to 40 million people. “The incident was

Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining 09/08/2023 at 13:01 By Exposed Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller

Google teases Project IDX, an AI-infused code editing thing 09/08/2023 at 12:34 By Thomas Claburn Rival to CoPilot and CodeWhisperer sees the Big G join the error-ridden robo-coding market Google on Tuesday announced Project IDX, an AI-infused cloud-based integrated development environment.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Palantir lobbied UK pensions department for its software to tackle fraud 09/08/2023 at 11:34 By Lindsay Clark Approach follows successful contracts in the health sector US spy-tech firm Palantir launched a direct lobbying campaign targeting UK government departments, including the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks 09/08/2023 at 11:17 By Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said it’s introducing a second user setting to turn off

Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report 09/08/2023 at 10:32 By Simon Sharwood SoftBank CFO says news of float is imminent, suggests firm will keep a solid chunk UK-based chip designer Arm will be floated in September, and its biggest licensees will be among those bidding for

TSMC and pals chip in for €10B German fab 09/08/2023 at 09:32 By Tobias Mann NXP, Infineon, Bosch each nab 10% stake in joint venture What does €5 billion of German taxpayer funding buy you? Certainly not domestic production of TSMC’s leading-edge process tech.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

IBM gives z/OS an AI infusion in major upgrade aimed in part at easing admin chores 09/08/2023 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Big Blue bakes in brainbox tech to get models running – because kids these days don’t want a career in big iron IBM has, as promised, announced an imminent upgrade to z/OS, the

Microsoft Releases Patches for 74 New Vulnerabilities in August Update 09/08/2023 at 08:04 By Microsoft has patched a total of 74 flaws in its software as part of the company’s Patch Tuesday updates for August 2023, down from the voluminous 132 vulnerabilities the company fixed last month. This comprises six Critical and 67 Important security vulnerabilities. Also

Verizon to ‘sunset’ Blue Jeans vidconf platform 09/08/2023 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape’ Verizon has decided to send its BlueJeans video collaboration platform riding off into the sunset, as it were.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Protecting manufacturing and warehousing employees 09/08/2023 at 07:02 By Building better workplace safety practices in warehouses. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source