Ransomware payment bans need universal buy-in
Banning ransomware payments is the only viable deterrent to cyber criminal gangs in the long term. Recent attacks on the British Library, Boeing, and even…
Month: April 2024
Thales could be tempted by some Atos defence assets – Security
Thales has opened the door to buying a limited part of the strategic assets of troubled French IT group Atos after the French government floated…
Data of over 25,000 people stolen in 2023 breach
Daily newspaper Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that attackers behind a May 2023 security breach have stolen the personal and financial information of 25,549 individuals. The Inquirer…
What’s it like being the IT chief at Man Utd?
Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 30 April 2024 What’s it like being the IT chief at Man Utd? Share this item…
Google now pays up to $450,000 for RCE bugs in some Android apps
Google has increased rewards for reporting remote code execution vulnerabilities within select Android apps by ten times, from $30,000 to $300,000, with the maximum reward…
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic…
Stop Managing Identities, Segment them Instead
By Sagie Dulce, VP Research, Zero Networks A Brief History of Identity Management For as long as there have been identities, there have been solutions…
Arcitecta offers file and object storage with huge transfer rates
65TB per hour, from anywhere on earth to anywhere else, no matter the quality of the connection between them. That’s the transfer speed achieved by…
R language flaw allows code execution via RDS/RDX files
A new vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that allows arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. R is an open-source programming…
Persistent data breaches deny people with HIV dignity, privacy
Charities and healthcare organisations working with HIV positive people are persistently failing to take account of their basic data protection and privacy needs, with frequent…
CISA guidelines to protect critical infrastructure against AI-based threats
CISA guidelines to protect critical infrastructure against AI-based threats Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2024 The US government’s cybersecurity agency CISA published a series of guidelines…
Millions of Docker repos found pushing malware, phishing sites
Three large-scale campaigns targeted Docker Hub users, planting millions of repositories that pushed malware and phishing sites since early 2021. As JFrog security researchers found, around…