Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token
Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2023 | 20
Special Features
‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities
Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence
Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 37
San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes
Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests
Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 28
Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app
Incidentally, Windows 11 has native rar support now
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 21
Critical Citrix bug exploited by data thieves weeks before being patched
Updated Time to close those active sessions
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 |
Governments resent their dependence on Big Tech
Singapore summit hears how private sector's constant security sins create risk for sovereigns
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 22
Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels
Spies come in from the cold for their first public chinwag
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 28
Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren't bad enough
Researchers say ransomware could be on the horizon if success continues
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 2
X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year
Annual fee won't be profitable, will require registration of phone number
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 68
Cisco's critical zero-day bug gets even worse – 'thousands' of IOS XE devices pwned
Good news: There's a free scanner to check your kit. Bad news: Still no fix
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2023 | 14
Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited
We'd say 'Hurry up and patch' but it hasn't written one yet. While you wait, disable HTTP
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 12
Signal shoots down zero-day rumors, finds 'no evidence' of device takeover
Looks to be related to critical libwebp bug found — and fixed — last month
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 5
Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs
Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 18
EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states
What could possibly go wrong?
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38
Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?
Opinion The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 82
Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 11
Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance
They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38
Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms
Turns out secrecy doesn't breed security
Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 26
Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data
House always wins, er, wait ...
Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole
Meanwhile, Exchange Online is on the fritz
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 13
Popular
‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities
Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence
In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk
Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs
Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle
Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account
Nokia to erase up to 14,000 employees from payroll
Profits plunge, sales down in Q3. Multi-year cost cutting drive means staff will be decimated
First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe
Comment Plus: Working from home is 'detached from reality' says world's richest man
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels
'Their future is murky at the moment'
Making the problem go away is not the same thing as fixing it
On Call The difference is especially stark at 2:00 AM
Casio keyed up after data loss hits customers in 149 countries
Crooks broke into the ClassPad server and swiped online learning database
Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token
Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy
Smaller, quieter, and expected to deliver millions of packages in coming years
STORIES
CISOs' salary growth slows – with pay gap widening
We still doubt any infosec leaders will be going without heating this winter
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 1
From chaos to cadence: Celebrating two decades of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
Feature IT folks look back on 20 years of what is now infosec tradition
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 17
Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software
PhilHealth blames government procurement rules for license expiry and issues phishing warnings
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 15
Vietnam accused of Predator spyware attack on EU and US politicians
Awkward, seeing as the US and Vietnam just announced a refreshed relationship
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2023 | 1
FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year
Internet considered harmful
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2023 | 68
Online tracking is alive and well in link decoration
Analysis The pending death of third-party cookies won't do much for other privacy intrusions
Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 16
China uses Alibaba's Euro logistic hub to spy on stuff, Belgian intelligence fears
Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle
Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 12
Improving defense of US space assets isn't rocket science. Oh wait
Can Booz Allen Hamilton get systems engineered with $630M and 7 years?
Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 4
Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei
Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel
Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 2
FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today
Updated Americans are used to drills :(
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 62
North Korea's Lazarus Group upgrades its main malware
LightningCan evades infosec tools in new and interesting ways
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 4
Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator
Putin Zuck out of business is one goal of this repeat effort to close off internet tunnels
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 39
Arm patches GPU driver bug exploited by spyware to snoop on targets
As Qualcomm warns of similar fixes coming for its chips
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft Defender 'finally' stops flagging Tor Browser as malware
Just because you're paranoid…
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 8
Japan drives for infosec self-sufficiency – at least in one layer of deep defenses
CYNEX Alliance brings industry, government, and academia together to share info and devise tools
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 |
US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors
Updated End-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China's hunting
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 9
Feds hopelessly behind the times on ransomware trends in alert to industry
Better late than never, we guess
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 6
Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers
Russian have shifted tactics in the first half of 2023, with mixed results
Cybersecurity Month26 Sep 2023 | 21
Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist
Cloud provider blamed for loss of 20% of exchange's capital
Cybersecurity Month25 Sep 2023 | 37
Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware
Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab
Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 6
ESA gets the job of building Europe's secure satcomms network
IRIS2 oversight deal signed as constellation’s schedule slips, and Ariane 6 hits another snag
Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 4
US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation
National defense files can earn you $55K … and espionage charges
Cybersecurity Month21 Sep 2023 | 15
Multi-cloud Infrastructure consolidation
Five phases of highly efficient M&A IT integration in a nutshell
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Driving innovation in the age of multi-cloud chaos
How and why T-Systems built its Cloud Platform Services organization in response to multi-cloud demand
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Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'
If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery
Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 39
There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here's what to consider
Feature Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev
Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 2
The Pentagon has no idea how to deal with bad cloud contracts, say auditors
Terrible IT practices at the DoD? You don't say
Cloud Infrastructure Week14 Sep 2023 | 9
Here's why cloud credentials are the hottest item on criminal marketplaces
And they cost less than a box of donuts
Cloud Infrastructure Week14 Sep 2023 | 5
Cloud infrastructure security is having an identity crisis. Can CIEM help?
Who's that poking around in your infrastructure? Roles, permissions, policies, and more
Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 |
Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose
Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time
Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 | 7
Despite the hype, generative AI is not a significant chunk of enterprise cloud spend
Not to be a buzzkill, but let's take a deep dive into the disparity
Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 3
The future of the cloud sure looks like it'll be paved in even more custom silicon
You're probably using cloud providers bespoke chips already and not even know it
Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 6
Automating cloud infrastructure: Do you want APIs with that?
Interview Flipping the script to a control plane
Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 2
D2iQ's AI Navigator ready to answer your deepest cloud concerns
Kubernetes configuration laid bare by chatbot, customer context next on roadmap
Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 |
Alibaba CEO, chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO
Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected
Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 1
Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost
Feature 'Hyperscalers made it sound like it was all self-service, in reality it was not'
Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 26
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next
Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic
Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA
Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
VMware sees no need to Arm itself for multi-architecture multi-cloud
Explore x86 still gets you to where the useful action is, even on the edge
Cloud Infrastructure Week23 Aug 2023 | 4
AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors
Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons
Cloud Infrastructure Week21 Aug 2023 |
A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project
That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost?
Cloud Infrastructure Week18 Aug 2023 | 3
Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON
DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun?
Black Hat and DEF CON14 Aug 2023 | 6
Let's play... Force off the power to someone else's datacenter systems
DEF CON Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 14
Inside the Black Hat network operations center, volunteers work in geek heaven
Black Hat NOC, NOC ... Who's there?
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 10
Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy
DEF CON ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 35
Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy
Black Hat PhD student admits he probably shouldn't have given this talk
Black Hat and DEF CON11 Aug 2023 | 64
Infosec imposter syndrome is real. Here's something that can help
Black Hat Talk about an insider threat
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 9
CISA boss says US alliance with Ukraine over past year is closer than Five Eyes
Black Hat And maybe shore up that critical infrastructure some more, America
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 14
Microsoft OneDrive a willing and eager 'ransomware double agent'
Black Hat No one will suspect such a trustworthy executable
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 13
Microsoft 365 guest accounts + Power Apps = security nightmare
Black Hat A login, a PA trial license, and some good old hacking are all that's needed to nab SQL databases
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 5
Shifting to two-factor auth is hard to do. GitHub recommends the long game
Black Hat Slow and steady wins this race with users
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 24
Google AI red team lead says this is how criminals will likely use ML for evil
DEF CON Prompt injection, data poisoning just to name a couple
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 3
Ukraine's Victor Zhora: Russia's cyber 'war crimes' will continue after ground invasion ends
Black Hat International laws needed 'to bring accountability' govt chief tells The Reg
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 21
CLI-beautifying ANSI escape sequences can also make your log files a security threat
Black Hat When you can't even cat your telemetry safely, who can you trust?
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 32
DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you
Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8
Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips
Black Hat It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 10
Can 'Mad Libs for incident response' prevent the next MOVEit fiasco?
Black Hat IBM X-Force lead says yes
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 5
It's that time of the year again: The trinity of infosec conferences
Black Hat A quick guide to Hacker Summer Camp
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 9
Tesla hackers turn to voltage glitching to unlock paywalled features
Black Hat Oh, this old thing? Yeah, it's got an AMD processor. Why?
Black Hat and DEF CON07 Aug 2023 | 55
Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook
When you get to Chapter 15 of a Unix book you're ready for a laugh
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 18
Sysadmins are being left out of AI implementation
Sounds to us like the beginning of an entertaining, but tragic, Who Me tale
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 33
Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs
One in five users can expect an audit in the next three years
Sysadmin Month24 Jul 2023 | 81
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs
Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 69
Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night
Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 7
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business
Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6
AI maybe on everyone's lips, but it's not what's driving IT spending
Software expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 11
JumpCloud says 'nation state' gang hit some customers
Updated Enough to make you hopping mad
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 4
Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps
Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 14
Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error
Good thing Mali isn't best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 155
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money
Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51
Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it
Who, me? Yippee-ki-yay, other sockets!
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 38
Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps
You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope
Sysadmin Month16 Jul 2023 | 2
Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?
100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google
Sysadmin Month15 Jul 2023 | 73
Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics
But the outcome is far from certain
Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4
Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss
On Call Response to taking out the trash rubbished a reputation
Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 258
Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang
Storm-0558 had access to customer accounts and mail – maybe even for senior US officials
Sysadmin Month13 Jul 2023 | 37
Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change
Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130
SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again
The chameleon-rancher chooses a new, Rocky course
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 25
VMware teases multi-cloud generative AI offerings for August debut
Data here, model there, Virtzilla’s usual abstraction principles in between
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 |
Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount
34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines
Sysadmin Month11 Jul 2023 | 32
Biting the hand that feeds IT
