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California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling 20/12/2023 at 03:02 By Thomas Claburn ‘Water? Like out of the toilet?’ It will get cleaned first and it’ll be better than Brawndo Taking a cue from water-starved environments like Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s Dune books and the International Space Station, arid California is shortening the distance between wastewater and […]

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Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck 20/12/2023 at 00:56 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh, watchdogs are going to love this Never mind that it is years late, hampered by production problems, and still not on the actual horizon: Elon Musk wants to turn the Cybertruck into a boat.… This article is an excerpt from

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Millions of Xfinity customers’ info, hashed passwords feared stolen in cyberattack 19/12/2023 at 23:55 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle 35M-plus Comcast user IDs accessed by intruder via Citrix Bleed Millions of Comcast Xfinity subscribers’ personal data – including potentially their usernames, hashed passwords, contact details, and secret security question-answers – was likely stolen by one or

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The greatest greatest threat to zero trust? Marketing 19/12/2023 at 23:32 By There is no such thing as a “magic bullet” for realizing a ZTA, but that has not stopped cybersecurity vendors from trying to sell themselves as such. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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2023 physical security trends 19/12/2023 at 23:18 By 2023 has seen a number of security incidents and developments. Security leaders have shared their observations and concerns around AI use in 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Before you go away for Xmas: You’ve patched that critical Perforce Server hole, right? 19/12/2023 at 23:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Microsoft bug hunters highlight weaknesses in source-wrangling suite Four vulnerabilities in Perforce Helix Core Server, including one critical remote code execution bug, should be patched “immediately,” according to Microsoft, which spotted the flaws and

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Biden urged to do something about Europe ‘unfairly’ targeting American tech 19/12/2023 at 21:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo 5 out of 6 ‘gatekeepers’ are US-based so regulators across pond are just being mean to us, say lawmakers Bipartisan congressional representatives have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, demanding action over what they claim is the

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FBI Takes Down BlackCat Ransomware, Releases Free Decryption Tool 19/12/2023 at 19:46 By The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation and released a decryption tool that victims can use to regain access to files locked by the malware. Court documents show that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

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Debian preps ground to drop x86-32 as a separate edition 19/12/2023 at 19:32 By Liam Proven Bad news for several downstream distros, but good news for NetBSD After a recent meetup in Cambridge, Debian developers are discussing how to start gradually dropping x86-32 support.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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CISA Releases Key Risk and Vulnerability Findings for Healthcare and Public Health Sector 19/12/2023 at 19:32 By CISA recently published a cybersecurity advisory which details the agency’s key findings and activities during a Risk and Vulnerability Assessment conducted at a healthcare and public health organization in early 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe

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Behind the Scenes of Matveev’s Ransomware Empire: Tactics and Team 19/12/2023 at 18:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of the ransomware operation led by Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national who was indicted by the U.S. government earlier this year for his alleged role in launching thousands of attacks across the world.

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AlphV/BlackCat hacked back as feds offer decryptor to ransomware victims 19/12/2023 at 18:02 By Connor Jones Domain seized while gang shrugs at loss of ‘stupid old key’ The US Justice Department is passing a decryptor to more than 500 victims of AlphV/BlackCat’s ransomware following a disruption campaign.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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CISA releases Play ransomware guidelines 19/12/2023 at 18:02 By CISA has partnered with federal U.S. and Australian organizations to release a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) about Play ransomware. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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77% of financial organizations detected a cyberattack in the last year 19/12/2023 at 17:50 By According to a recent Netwrix report, 77% of financial organizations detected a cyberattack in the last year, compared to 68% in other industries. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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Trustwave 2024 Cybersecurity Predictions: Artificial Intelligence and the US Presidential Election 19/12/2023 at 17:03 By There is every reason to believe that 2024 may be an interesting year in the cybersecurity space, making it difficult to foresee what might transpire. However, Trustwave’s leadership is up to the task. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave

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Hackers Abusing GitHub to Evade Detection and Control Compromised Hosts 19/12/2023 at 16:49 By Threat actors are increasingly making use of GitHub for malicious purposes through novel methods, including abusing secret Gists and issuing malicious commands via git commit messages. “Malware authors occasionally place their samples in services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Discord

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To infinity and … just over the Atlantic 19/12/2023 at 16:33 By Richard Speed Soul searching in the wake of Virgin Orbit failure The UK Space Agency has published a “Lessons Learned” report after the failure of the first orbital launch attempt from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay on the south west coast of England.… This

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Henry Schein reports 29K affected in September cyber attack 19/12/2023 at 16:17 By In a filing with the Maine Attorney General, dental and medical products supplier Henry Schein announced more than 29,000 people were potentially affected from a recent data breach. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

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Google coughs up $700M in Play Store antitrust suit 19/12/2023 at 15:49 By Richard Speed Gives Apple a sly nod over sideloading Google is to pay $700 million and overhaul some policies to settle the Play Store antitrust lawsuit launched by US states and consumers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Iranian Hackers Using MuddyC2Go in Telecom Espionage Attacks Across Africa 19/12/2023 at 15:16 By The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has leveraged a newly discovered command-and-control (C2) framework called MuddyC2Go in its attacks on the telecommunications sector in Egypt, Sudan, and Tanzania. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, is tracking the activity under the name Seedworm,

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