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Researchers Uncover AWS SSM Agent Misuse as a Covert Remote Access Trojan

Researchers Uncover AWS SSM Agent Misuse as a Covert Remote Access Trojan 02/08/2023 at 15:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new post-exploitation technique in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) to be run as a remote access trojan on Windows and Linux environments “The SSM agent, a

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Top Industries Significantly Impacted by Illicit Telegram Networks

Top Industries Significantly Impacted by Illicit Telegram Networks 02/08/2023 at 15:16 By In recent years the rise of illicit activities conducted within online messaging platforms has become a growing concern for countless industries. One of the most notable platforms that has been host to many malicious actors and nefarious activities has been Telegram. Thanks to

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After fears that Europe’s space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine

After fears that Europe’s space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine 02/08/2023 at 13:32 By Katyanna Quach Here’s looking at Euclid Astronomers are breathing a sigh of relief that the 600-megapixel Euclid wide-angle space telescope’s instruments appear to be working well, despite discovering a gap in the orbiter’s hull that allowed sunlight

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UK watchdog reopens consultation on Microsoft’s bid for Activision Blizzard

UK watchdog reopens consultation on Microsoft’s bid for Activision Blizzard 02/08/2023 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark CMA admits Sony deal might change the battlefield The UK’s markets watchdog has reopened a consultation on the $69 billion tie-up between Activision Blizzard and Microsoft months after it blocked the proposed sale on the back of competition concerns.…

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IBM to build biometrics system for UK cops and immigration services

IBM to build biometrics system for UK cops and immigration services 02/08/2023 at 11:32 By Lindsay Clark Big Blue scores £54.7M project, taking business from Fujitsu as Home Office consolidates work The UK’s Home Office has handed IBM a £54.7 million ($70 million) contract to work on the biometric matcher platform to support its police

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Iranian Company Cloudzy Accused of Aiding Cybercriminals and Nation-State Hackers

Iranian Company Cloudzy Accused of Aiding Cybercriminals and Nation-State Hackers 02/08/2023 at 11:17 By Services offered by an obscure Iranian company known as Cloudzy are being leveraged by multiple threat actors, including cybercrime groups and nation-state crews. “Although Cloudzy is incorporated in the United States, it almost certainly operates out of Tehran, Iran – in

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Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space 02/08/2023 at 11:03 By Laura Dobberstein Not all heroes wear capes – some are 50-year-old antennas A signal from Voyager 2 has been detected by NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) over a week after communications with the distant probe were lost, the Jet Propulsion

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Japanese boffins slice semiconductors from diamonds – with lasers!

Japanese boffins slice semiconductors from diamonds – with lasers! 02/08/2023 at 10:49 By Tobias Mann Chips based on the tech could boost efficiency of electric vehicles Scientists at Japan’s Chiba University claim they’ve developed a method that uses lasers to create diamond wafers that could one day power next-gen semiconductors.… This article is an excerpt

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Australian Senate committee recommends further bans on Chinese social media apps

Australian Senate committee recommends further bans on Chinese social media apps 02/08/2023 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood WeChat accused of ‘contempt for Parliament ‘ as transparency rules floated for all social media An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China

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Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok

Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok 02/08/2023 at 08:34 By Laura Dobberstein Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had hired Puneet Chandok as its new leader for India and Southeast Asia. Chandok’s previous gig was president of AWS for India and South Asia.… This article

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XenServer teases free VMware migration package

XenServer teases free VMware migration package 02/08/2023 at 07:35 By Simon Sharwood Citrix’s virtualization spin out goes a bit Musky by revealing its own X-centric logo XenServer, the Citrix spin-out that will offer a hypervisor and associated management tools for x86 systems, has teased a plan to lure VMware customers as well as a little

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Norwegian Entities Targeted in Ongoing Attacks Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerability

Norwegian Entities Targeted in Ongoing Attacks Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerability 02/08/2023 at 07:34 By Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploited a recently disclosed critical flaw impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) as a zero-day since at least April 2023 in attacks directed against Norwegian entities, including a government network. The disclosure comes as part of

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MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, and water

MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, and water 02/08/2023 at 06:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo Imagine your home’s foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have found a novel new way to store energy using nothing but cement, a bit of water, and powdered

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Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go

Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go 02/08/2023 at 05:03 By Thomas Claburn CEO, fresh with funds, lays out the dependency dilemma Interview  Open source security biz Socket is extending its source code dependency checker, which previously addressed only JavaScript and Python, by adding support for checking Go code.… This article is

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AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94%

AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94% 02/08/2023 at 04:03 By Tobias Mann Don’t worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su AMD crawled back to profitability in the second quarter of 2023, reporting net income of $27 million – a drop of 94 percent

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Google wants to ‘supercharge Assistant’ with AI as Meta gives bots a personality

Google wants to ‘supercharge Assistant’ with AI as Meta gives bots a personality 02/08/2023 at 02:18 By Katyanna Quach Does that include Zuck or? The chatbot craze isn’t slowing any time soon. Google is understood to be injecting generative AI features into its digital assistant. Meanwhile Meta is said to be planning to launch virtual

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Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers 02/08/2023 at 00:18 By Thomas Claburn Are we out of touch? No, it’s the charity that’s wrong Twitter, lately known as X Corp, is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for allegedly harming its advertising business by documenting vitriol on the social network.…

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MacOS malware discovered on Russian dark web forum

MacOS malware discovered on Russian dark web forum 01/08/2023 at 23:02 By Hidden virtual network computing (hVNC) malware specifically targeting macOS was identified by Guardz on the Russian dark web forum Exploit. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online 01/08/2023 at 22:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Westinghouse’s 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor It’s more than half a decade late coming online and has cost billions more than estimated, but Georgia Power’s Vogtle Unit 3, the first US nuclear reactor built from scratch

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