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JumpCloud says ‘nation state’ gang hit some customers 19/07/2023 at 02:03 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Enough to make you hopping mad JumpCloud says a “sophisticated nation-state” attacker broke into its IT systems and targeted some of its customers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Tesla board members to return $735M in compensation settlement 19/07/2023 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Look who is learning to share: Deal includes no admission of fault, naturally Tesla’s board of directors has settled a case with shareholders who accused its members of awarding themselves oversized compensation packages.… This article is an excerpt from The

Make chips, not trade wars, says Semiconductor Industry Association 18/07/2023 at 23:03 By Dan Robinson Industry body warns against political rhetoric or US subsidy efforts will be diminished The US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has stepped into the fray to lower tensions between Washington and Beijing over chip exports, as well as calling for further

AWS and Azure own lion’s share of $120B cloud infrastructure market 18/07/2023 at 22:19 By Dan Robinson China’s Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei The global market for cloud infrastructure services grew by 30 percent last year, exceeding $100 billion in value for the first time and two lions account for nearly

If you’re going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech 18/07/2023 at 20:33 By Katyanna Quach Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more AI in brief  More than 8,000 writers have signed an open letter penned by the US Authors

Auroras – the solar system’s universal light show (except Neptune… sorry, Neptune) 18/07/2023 at 19:07 By Lindsay Clark Data from 2021 Mercury flyby shows same mechanisms cause phenomena throughout our star system Scientists have found that the fundamental mechanism behind the spectacular light shows of auroras on Earth are universal throughout the solar system.… This

70% of life sciences see a rise in insider data loss incidents 18/07/2023 at 19:07 By Cybersecurity, risk management and insider risks within the life sciences industry were analyzed in a recent report by Code42 Software.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher 18/07/2023 at 17:39 By Laura Dobberstein Probably not aliens, maybe The Australian Space Agency said on Monday it was making enquiries related to a mysterious cylindrical object that washed ashore on Western Australia’s Jurien Bay.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Financial services industry sees rise in public cloud storage 18/07/2023 at 17:38 By A report highlights how financial services organizations have embraced the cloud in response to the pandemic-fueled movement toward remote work. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Pakistani Entities Targeted in Sophisticated Attack Deploying ShadowPad Malware 18/07/2023 at 17:38 By An unidentified threat actor compromised an application used by multiple entities in Pakistan to deliver ShadowPad, a successor to the PlugX backdoor that’s commonly associated with Chinese hacking crews. Targets included a Pakistan government entity, a public sector bank, and a telecommunications provider, according

GoTo names Attila Török as new Chief Information Security Officer 18/07/2023 at 16:48 By GoTo recently announced the appointment of Attila Török as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following ‘extensive cyberattack’ 18/07/2023 at 16:02 By Paul Kunert Says baddies launched attack at weekend, isolates parts of tech infrastructure to contain spread Norwegian mining and recycling giant TOMRA says it has isolated tech systems as it deals with an “extensive cyberattack.”… This article is an excerpt from The

Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone 18/07/2023 at 14:46 By Richard Currie Could’ve sworn that came out yesterday OK, going by previous auctions of retro Apple hardware, it’s clear that there are fanbois out there benefiting from an infinite money glitch or something – but this is getting ridiculous.… This article

VirusTotal Data Leak Exposes Some Registered Customers’ Details 18/07/2023 at 14:46 By Data associated with a subset of registered customers of VirusTotal, including their names and email addresses, have leaked on the internet. The security incident, which comprises a database of 5,600 names in a 313KB file, was first disclosed by Der Spiegel and Der Standard yesterday. Launched in

Go Beyond the Headlines for Deeper Dives into the Cybercriminal Underground 18/07/2023 at 14:46 By Discover stories about threat actors’ latest tactics, techniques, and procedures from Cybersixgill’s threat experts each month. Each story brings you details on emerging underground threats, the threat actors involved, and how you can take action to mitigate risks. Learn about

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market 18/07/2023 at 13:35 By Liam Proven It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn’t Opinion  Linux is now a little more than three 3 per cent of the desktop OS market, excluding the just over four

FIN8 Group Using Modified Sardonic Backdoor for BlackCat Ransomware Attacks 18/07/2023 at 13:35 By The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN8 has been observed using a “revamped” version of a backdoor called Sardonic to deliver the BlackCat ransomware. According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, the development is an attempt on the part of

Microsoft ‘fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps 18/07/2023 at 12:04 By Paul Kunert Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop A code deployment for Azure Container Apps that contained a misconfiguration triggered prolonged log data access issues, according to a technical incident report from Microsoft.…

Samsung ‘closing the gap’ with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm 18/07/2023 at 10:33 By Tobias Mann The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan’s Rapidus enter the fray Samsung Electronics has reportedly caught up with rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in advanced processor design, achieving comparable yields for both 4nm and 3nm nodes.…

Cybercriminals Exploiting WooCommerce Payments Plugin Flaw to Hijack Websites 18/07/2023 at 10:03 By Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin as part of a massive targeted campaign. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28121 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of authentication bypass that enables unauthenticated attackers to impersonate