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GiveWP WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Puts 100,000+ Websites at Risk 2024-08-21 at 08:01 By A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WordPress GiveWP donation and fundraising plugin that exposes more than 100,000 websites to remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-5932 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the plugin prior to […]

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China’s chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations 2024-08-21 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein Think tank warns US and friends they can’t assume Beijing won’t catch up China’s chip design and fabrication capabilities lag significantly behind the US and its allies, according to a report from US think tank the

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Authentication bypass discovered in Microsoft Entra ID 2024-08-21 at 07:17 By Security leaders weigh in on a recently revealed authentication bypass in Microsoft Entra ID.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chipmaker Microchip reveals cyber attack whacked manufacturing capacity 2024-08-21 at 04:18 By Simon Sharwood Defense contractor gets hacked – what’s the worst that could happen US semiconductor manufacturing firm Microchip Technology has revealed an “unauthorized party disrupted the Company’s use of certain servers and some business operation.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all 2024-08-21 at 00:31 By Tobias Mann Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series In an apparent reversal, AMD has decided that its Ryzen 3000-series processors released in 2019 are actually worth patching against the recently disclosed SinkClose vulnerability.… This article is an excerpt

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Writers sue Anthropic for feeding ‘stolen’ copyrighted work into Claude 2024-08-20 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets Anthropic was sued on Monday by three authors who claim the machine-learning lab unlawfully used their copyrighted work to train its Claude AI model.… This article is an excerpt

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Detecting AWS Account Compromise: Key Indicators in CloudTrail Logs for Stolen API Keys 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By As cloud infrastructure becomes the backbone of modern enterprises, ensuring the security of these environments is paramount. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) still being the dominant cloud it is important for any security professional to know where to

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Czech Mobile Users Targeted in New Banking Credential Theft Scheme 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By Mobile users in the Czech Republic are the target of a novel phishing campaign that leverages a Progressive Web Application (PWA) in an attempt to steal their banking account credentials. The attacks have targeted the Czech-based Československá obchodní banka (CSOB), as

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Open source biz promises to slash bills with observability-as-a-service in the cloud 2024-08-20 at 22:16 By Richard Speed AWS first, others to follow VictoriaMetrics has become the latest open source company to offer a hosted product, claiming around five times the savings for customers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11’s altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission 2024-08-20 at 20:32 By Richard Speed Let’s hope the spacesuits hold up for extravehicular activity The Polaris Dawn mission to send humans to a 1,400 km orbit – higher than 1966’s Gemini 11 – is set for launch in less than a week.…

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PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By Lindsay Clark Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database’s perceived weaknesses A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL’s weaknesses as an analytics database.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By A survey has revealed that 2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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36% of global internet traffic originated from bots 2024-08-20 at 18:46 By A recent report report found that 91% of cyberattacks – up from 69% in 2023 – targeted multiple customers using mass scanning techniques. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Plane-tracking app admits user passwords, SSNs exposed for over 3 years 2024-08-20 at 17:33 By Connor Jones Notification omits a number of key details Popular flight-tracking app FlightAware has admitted that it was exposing a bunch of users’ data for more than three years.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Elon Musk’s X Corp faces $61M lawsuit over unpaid tech tabs 2024-08-20 at 16:18 By Dan Robinson Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider claims platform ghosted it X is facing yet another legal case in the shape of a breach of contract claim from IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn over non-payment for $120 million in components it procured

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Console yourself – research finds gaming may actually boost mental health 2024-08-20 at 15:46 By Lindsay Clark Digital athletes enjoy positive effects in Japan study, but too much screentime sees diminishing returns A study of nearly 100,000 people in Japan has found that gaming may be good for the player’s mental health, contrary to the

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RansomHub threat actors observed using EDR-killing tool 2024-08-20 at 15:16 By Security leaders weigh in on a recent ransomware encounter deploying an EDR-killing tool.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Oreon Lime is AlmaLinux with a desktop twist 2024-08-20 at 15:02 By Liam Proven Enterprise-level long-term stability, but a little friendlier Oreon Lime R2 blends AlmaLinux with a bunch of extra tools and repositories, plus some helpful tweaks for the GNOME desktop. It’s sort of akin to an LTS version of Fedora 34.… This article

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