Ubiquitous UEFI implementation has serious vulnerabilities – Security
Researchers from cyber security vendor Quarkslab are warning of a total of nine vulnerabilities in the TianoCore EDK II, the open source reference UEFI implementation…
Month: January 2024
Update Chrome Now to Fix New Actively Exploited Vulnerability
Jan 17, 2024NewsroomBrowser Security / Vulnerability Google on Tuesday released updates to fix four security issues in its Chrome browser, including an actively exploited zero-day…
Atlassian fixed critical RCE in older Confluence versions
Atlassian fixed critical RCE in older Confluence versions Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2024 Atlassian warns of a critical remote code execution issue in Confluence Data…
Breaches happen. Stop the Blame Game, and Foster Transparency
No-one wants to suffer a data breach and the potential havoc it can wreak. Unfortunately, there is a strong tendency to blame the victim of…
OpenAI CEO Altman says future AI depends on energy breakthrough – Software
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said an energy breakthrough is necessary for future artificial intelligence, which will consume vastly more power than people have expected. Speaking…
Google fixed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2024
Google fixed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2024 Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2024 Google has addressed the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability of the…
Majorca city Calvià extorted for $11M in ransomware attack
The Calvià City Council in Majorca announced it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Saturday, which impacted municipal services. Calvià is a historic town…
Atlassian issues urgent Confluence patch – Security
Atlassian is warning users of out-of-date Confluence data centre and server environments that they need to update to a current version to patch a critical-rated…
GitHub rotates keys to mitigate impact of credential-exposing flaw
GitHub rotated keys potentially exposed by a vulnerability patched in December that could let attackers access credentials within production containers via environment variables. This unsafe reflection vulnerability…
Synopsys to buy engineering software firm Ansys – Strategy
Chip design software maker Synopsys will buy Ansys in a US$35 billion ($53 billion) cash-and-stock deal, snapping up the maker of software used in creating…
MacOS info-stealers quickly evolve to evade XProtect detection
Multiple information stealers for the macOS platform have demonstrated the capability to evade detection even when security companies follow and report about new variants frequently.…
WooliesX reorganises engineering under Agile structure tweak – Strategy – Training & Development – Software
WooliesX, the online and digital arm of Woolworths, has tweaked its Agile organisational structure, with some of the early changes apparent in its software engineering…