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Owner of BreachForums Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime and Child Pornography Charges 18/07/2023 at 10:03 By Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images. The development, first reported by DataBreaches.net last week, comes nearly four months […]

JumpCloud Blames ‘Sophisticated Nation-State’ Actor for Security Breach 18/07/2023 at 07:01 By A little over a week after JumpCloud reset API keys of customers impacted by a security incident, the company said the intrusion was the work of a sophisticated nation-state actor. The adversary “gained unauthorized access to our systems to target a small and specific set

Typo watch: ‘Millions of emails’ for US military sent to .ml addresses in error 18/07/2023 at 03:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Good thing Mali isn’t best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot For the past decade, millions of emails destined for .mil US military addresses were actually directed at .ml addresses, that being the top-level

Microsoft promises to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for next decade. Sony believes it 18/07/2023 at 02:05 By Katyanna Quach Redmond one step closer to $69bn Activision Blizzard merger Microsoft and Sony have signed a pact to keep Call of Duty games available for PlayStation consoles for the next ten years, clearing a major

Trustwave Fusion Platform Capabilities Expanded in Pacific Region 18/07/2023 at 02:05 By Trustwave has expanded its cloud-native Trustwave Fusion platform into the Pacific region by retaining all Pacific client data onshore in Australia to meet national regulatory requirements. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source

Quick: Manually patch this Zimbra bug that’s under attack 18/07/2023 at 01:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Smells like Russian cyber spies (again) A vulnerability in Zimbra’s software is being exploited right now by miscreants to compromise systems and attack selected government organizations, experts reckon.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office 17/07/2023 at 23:02 By Paul Kunert Three years after Slack flagged up ‘illegal’ bundling of chat app European Union antitrust regulators are expected to next week launch their first formal probe into Microsoft’s integration of collaboration app Teams with its dominant Office 365 productivity

Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll? 17/07/2023 at 22:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo There’s never been a fruit winder like this before An Apple patent application indicates that Cook and Company are possibly entertaining the idea of adding roll-up screens to everything from the all-in-one iMac to the iPhone – and even

Digital maturity is a growing factor in cybersecurity practices 17/07/2023 at 22:18 By A report finds that the U.S. security landscape changed significantly in 2022, with breaches declining in number but increasing in size. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Beijing wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater 17/07/2023 at 21:34 By Laura Dobberstein Also more fiery, with vague but firm orders to create a ‘security barrier’ Over the weekend Chinese president Xi Jinping gave a directive to officials to build a Beijing-supervised “security barrier” around its internet.… This article is an

Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions 17/07/2023 at 20:34 By Dan Robinson Why are you hitting yourselves? semiconductor CEOs ask The chip wars between the US and China continue apace amid warnings that both sides may be harming their own economy as much as the other, and tech companies

Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing reveals data breach 17/07/2023 at 20:19 By The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing announced they were contacted by an unknown user claiming to have accessed the computer network. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google tightens Play Store dev rules while becoming more blockchain tolerant 17/07/2023 at 19:20 By Thomas Claburn Trust and safety push promises ability to delete app-associated accounts Google, citing trust and safety concerns, has issued updated policies for those distributing Android apps through the Play Store.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Post Office Horizon Inquiry calls for compensation to be brought forward 17/07/2023 at 18:46 By Lindsay Clark Suffering and financial loss of subpostmasters prompts decision in interim report An inquiry into one of the UK’s greatest IT scandals has called for compensation offered by the government to victims falsely accused of fraud to be brought

First of Tesla’s ‘bulletproof’ Cybertrucks clunks off production line 17/07/2023 at 18:20 By Richard Currie Wait, so it wasn’t an elaborate joke? It’s been almost four years since we were able to write “Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla’s ‘bulletproof’ low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues”.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Healthcare organizations hesitant to adopt new software patches 17/07/2023 at 18:05 By Healthcare cybersecurity risks were analyzed in a report by Trustwave following the healthcare industry facing a number of recent cyberattacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Applications open for SIA 2023 Women in Security Forum scholarship 17/07/2023 at 18:05 By The Security Industry Association is accepting applications for the 2023 SIA Women in Security Forum Scholarship, an initiative led by the SIA Women in Security Forum. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone 17/07/2023 at 17:15 By Liam Proven A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing The AlmaLinux distribution’s goal is shifting from being one-to-one, bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to being application binary interface (ABI) compatible. But this represents

Hackers Exploit WebAPK to Deceive Android Users into Installing Malicious Apps 17/07/2023 at 17:15 By Threat actors are taking advantage of Android’s WebAPK technology to trick unsuspecting users into installing malicious web apps on Android phones that are designed to capture sensitive personal information. “The attack began with victims receiving SMS messages suggesting the need to update

Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums 17/07/2023 at 16:17 By Tobias Mann Meanwhile, ORNL’s Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has finally completed the installation of the Aurora supercomputer after a bevy of delays but scientists are already clamoring to put it