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DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert 15/09/2023 at 14:53 By The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT? IoT […]

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Google Agrees to $93 Million Settlement in California’s Location-Privacy Lawsuit 15/09/2023 at 14:53 By Google has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. state of California over allegations that the company’s location-privacy practices misled consumers and violated consumer protection laws. “Our investigation revealed that Google was telling its users

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The Interdependence between Automated Threat Intelligence Collection and Humans 15/09/2023 at 14:53 By The volume of cybersecurity vulnerabilities is rising, with close to 30% more vulnerabilities found in 2022 vs. 2018. Costs are also rising, with a data breach in 2023 costing $4.45M on average vs. $3.62M in 2017. In Q2 2023, a total of 1386 victims were

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BT dips toe into liquid cooling in quest for a chill network 15/09/2023 at 14:24 By Dan Robinson 40-50% reduction in power needs isn’t an efficiency to be sniffed at BT is to trial liquid cooling solutions in a bid to improve energy consumption and efficiency across its networks and IT infrastructure.… This article is

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NodeStealer Malware Now Targets Facebook Business Accounts on Multiple Browsers 15/09/2023 at 13:46 By An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims’ credentials using a variant of the Python-based NodeStealer and potentially take over their accounts for follow-on malicious activities.  “The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North

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DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert 15/09/2023 at 13:46 By The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT? IoT

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Greater Manchester Police ransomware attack another classic demo of supply chain challenges 15/09/2023 at 12:49 By Richard Speed Are you the weakest link? The UK’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that crooks have got their mitts on some of its data after a third-party supplier responsible for ID badges was attacked.… This article is

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Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads 15/09/2023 at 12:48 By The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads signed with Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificates. “This suggests that the threat actors are streamlining operations by making

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There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here’s what to consider 15/09/2023 at 11:33 By Lindsay Clark Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Feature  It has been a decade since Amazon RDS launched support for PostgreSQL. Since then, the relational

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Meet Honda’s latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase 15/09/2023 at 09:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo The Motocompacto is a successor to the ’81 Motocompo, but with greater ability to deprive its rider of dignity With a growing market for electric scooters, we were expecting manufacturers to all eventually pile in, but Honda arriving on the scene

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HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop 15/09/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood There’s a weird one-and-a-half screen laptop mode, too New PC form factors are few and far between, but HP Inc. has tried to shake things up with a foldable device called the Spectre Foldable PC that can be a 12.3-inch laptop, or a

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Cybercrime Never Takes a Vacation. Cybersecurity in the Hospitality Industry 15/09/2023 at 08:02 By The Trustwave SpiderLabs team conducted a multi-month investigation into the cyber threats facing the hospitality industry worldwide and has released a detailed report displaying how threat actors conduct attacks, the methodologies used, and what organizations can do to protect themselves from

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Iranian Nation-State Actors Employ Password Spray Attacks Targeting Multiple Sectors 15/09/2023 at 07:33 By Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023, new findings from Microsoft reveal. The tech giant, which is tracking the activity under the name Peach Sandstorm (formerly Holmium), said the adversary pursued

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Security’s important place in the broader digital trust ecosystem 15/09/2023 at 07:15 By Security & cybersecurity practitioners have a major part to play in the overarching priority of advancing digital trust at their organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Oracle cloud database hardware to reside in Azure datacenters and Microsoft’s good with that 15/09/2023 at 06:36 By Simon Sharwood Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency for data moving from DB to AI The same Oracle cloud hardware that Big Red uses to run databases in its own hyperscale cloud will

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Big Tech offers free training courses on India’s new digital skills platform 15/09/2023 at 05:18 By Laura Dobberstein Mobile-first service aims to bring e-learning to the masses, covering tech and plenty more India on Wednesday launched a government-supported e-learning and job posting service, Skill India Digital (SID), that includes free courses from the likes of

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Post-IPO, Arm to push purpose-built almost-processors 15/09/2023 at 04:11 By Tobias Mann British chip design biz plans to satisfy investors by seeking new customers, while RISC-V and China are already challenges Comment  The Arm that listed on the Nasdaq Thursday is a very different operation to the one Softbank took private in 2016, because the

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US-Canada water org confirms ‘cybersecurity incident’ after ransomware crew threatens leak 15/09/2023 at 03:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle NoEscape promises ‘colossal wave of problems’ if IJC doesn’t pay up The International Joint Commission, a body that manages water rights along the US-Canada border, has confirmed its IT security was targeted, after a ransomware gang claimed

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Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that’s a decade for everyone else 15/09/2023 at 01:34 By Thomas Claburn I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion… Google said Thursday it will provide a decade of service updates for recent model Chromebooks, a policy change that reflects

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NASA wants to believe … that you can help it crack UFO mysteries 15/09/2023 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn Is there nothing crowdsourcing can’t solve? NASA on Thursday released its final report on how to best study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and the US space agency wants to hear more from the hoi polloi, or

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