84% of financial institutions were exposed to a fourth-party breach 26/07/2023 at 20:02 By According to a recent report by SecurityScorecard, 78% of financial institutions experienced a third-party data breach in the past year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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AI mentioned 175 times during Microsoft’s Q4 earnings call 26/07/2023 at 19:23 By Paul Kunert Are you sure that’s an exec on the line? Also, smart move distracting folks from revenue growth slowdown, profit slide AI was mentioned 175 times during Microsoft’s conference call with analysts to discuss the megacorp’s Q4 financial results – it
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Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips 26/07/2023 at 18:17 By Dan Robinson Some big changes are afoot Intel has revealed two sets of extensions coming to the x86 instruction set architecture, one to boost the performance of general purpose code and the second to provide a common vector instruction set for
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Chad LeMaire hired as Chief Security Officer at Echelon Risk + Cyber 26/07/2023 at 18:17 By Chad LeMaire has been hired as CSO at Echelon Risk + Cyber. LeMaire is a senior cybersecurity executive and CIO with more than 30 years of experience. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed
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90% of SOC analysts believe current threat detection tools are effective 26/07/2023 at 17:46 By The new 2023 State of Threat Detection Research Report provides insight into the “spiral of more” that prevents security operations center (SOC) teams from effectively securing their organizations from cyberattacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s
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What does Twitter’s new logo really represent? 26/07/2023 at 17:03 By Liam Proven It has a meaning in mathematics, and even more interested parties than you might expect Logowatch Twitter’s new logo isn’t just an X, it’s a very specific form of X, and not only does it have a meaning, it also has some
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Decoy Dog: New Breed of Malware Posing Serious Threats to Enterprise Networks 26/07/2023 at 17:02 By A deeper analysis of a recently discovered malware called Decoy Dog has revealed that it’s a significant upgrade over the Pupy RAT, an open-source remote access trojan it’s modeled on. “Decoy Dog has a full suite of powerful, previously unknown capabilities –
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TSMC thinks it’s got exactly what Taiwan needs – another multibillion-dollar chip plant 26/07/2023 at 16:21 By Laura Dobberstein Talk about all your eggs in one China-coveting basket TSMC confirmed on Tuesday that it is investing $2.87 billion in a chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) advanced packaging fab for AI chips in northern Taiwan.… This article is an
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To infinity and beyond, with a swarm of tiny computers costing under $1K each 26/07/2023 at 15:03 By Thomas Claburn BLISS this: Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail project wants to head into space on the cheap Boffins believe the future of space exploration may belong to small, affordable probes sailing away under the Sun’s power.…
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Fenix Cybercrime Group Poses as Tax Authorities to Target Latin American Users 26/07/2023 at 14:16 By Tax-paying individuals in Mexico and Chile have been targeted by a Mexico-based cybercrime group that goes by the name Fenix to breach targeted networks and steal valuable data. A key hallmark of the operation entails cloning official portals of the Servicio
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The Alarming Rise of Infostealers: How to Detect this Silent Threat 26/07/2023 at 14:16 By A new study conducted by Uptycs has uncovered a stark increase in the distribution of information stealing (a.k.a. infostealer or stealer) malware. Incidents have more than doubled in Q1 2023, indicating an alarming trend that threatens global organizations. According to
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ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon 26/07/2023 at 13:32 By Dan Robinson EURIALO project aims to prove flights can be tracked in real time through multilateration The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to a US company to create a technology demonstrator for a proposed aircraft monitoring system using low
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New AI Tool ‘FraudGPT’ Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks 26/07/2023 at 13:31 By Following the footsteps of WormGPT, threat actors are advertising yet another cybercrime generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool dubbed FraudGPT on various dark web marketplaces and Telegram channels. “This is an AI bot, exclusively targeted for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear phishing emails, creating cracking
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Ambulance patient records system hauled offline for cyber-attack probe 26/07/2023 at 12:17 By Lindsay Clark UK trusts serving 12 million people affected as vendor awaits results of forensic investigation Several UK NHS ambulance organizations have been struggling to record patient data and pass it to other providers following a cyber-attack aimed at health software company
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Rust-based Realst Infostealer Targeting Apple macOS Users’ Cryptocurrency Wallets 26/07/2023 at 10:46 By A new malware family called Realst has become the latest to target Apple macOS systems, with a third of the samples already designed to infect macOS 14 Sonoma, the upcoming major release of the operating system. Written in the Rust programming language, the malware
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Sneaky Python package security fixes help no one – except miscreants 26/07/2023 at 10:32 By Thomas Claburn Good thing these eggheads have created a database of patches Python security fixes often happen through “silent” code commits, without an associated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifier, according to a group of computer security researchers.… This article
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Australian court orders Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million over data use 26/07/2023 at 10:03 By Laura Dobberstein Adverts said Onavo Protect user data would be kept a secret – just didn’t say from whom On Wednesday, Australia’s Federal Court ordered two Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million after an over two and a half
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Ivanti plugs critical bug – but not before it was used against Norwegian government 26/07/2023 at 09:33 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Uncle Sam warns sysadmins to get patching as soon as possible A critical security flaw in Ivanti’s mobile endpoint management code was exploited and used to compromise 12 Norwegian government agencies before the vendor plugged
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Critical MikroTik RouterOS Vulnerability Exposes Over Half a Million Devices to Hacking 26/07/2023 at 08:47 By A severe privilege escalation issue impacting MikroTik RouterOS could be weaponized by remote malicious actors to execute arbitrary code and seize full control of vulnerable devices. Cataloged as CVE-2023-30799 (CVSS score: 9.1), the shortcoming is expected to put approximately 500,000 and
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NASA awards $150 million to prototype tech for humans on the Moon, and above it 26/07/2023 at 08:35 By Katyanna Quach Inflatable heat shields, robot cable layers, and a furnace to burn lunar dust for minerals and oxygen NASA is distributing $150 million between 11 US organizations developing technology and infrastructure supporting long-term human exploration
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