Month: May 2024
A malware botnet known as ‘Ebury’ has infected almost 400,000 Linux servers since 2009, with roughly 100,000 still compromised as of late 2023. ESET researchers have been following the financially motivated malware operation for over a decade now, warning about significant updates in the payload’s capabilities in 2014 and again in 2017. Below are the…
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In a blockbuster move today, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky unveiled he is leaving the company on June 3, being replaced by longtime AWS executive Matt Garman. Some partners believe Amazon Web Services’ newly announced CEO, Matt Garman, will elevate AWS even further following the sudden departure of Adam Selipsky today after 15 years with the…
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May 14, 2024NewsroomBluetooth / Vulnerability Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in VMware Workstation and Fusion products that could be exploited by threat actors to access sensitive information, trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and execute code under certain circumstances. The four vulnerabilities impact Workstation versions 17.x and Fusion versions 13.x, with fixes available in version…
Read MoreUpcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: The list is maintained on this page. Tags: Schneier news Posted on May 14, 2024 at 12:04 PM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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Kyndryl said that it will use the net proceeds from the two deals for ‘general corporate purposes.’ IT infrastructure services powerhouse Kyndryl said Monday that it acquired a Seattle firm to expand its hybrid cloud service offerings and help move and run more workloads in Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. Seattle-based Skytap’s technologies combined with…
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‘We will take minority positions in smaller and midsize partners with a specific view towards giving those partners the equity, the capital, to basically bring in new skills and talent, train those skills and talent, take a little bit of the heat off them from a revenue perspective. We’re giving a nice investment into them…
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Apple has released security updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability in the Safari web browser exploited during this year’s Pwn2Own Vancouver hacking competition. The company addressed the security flaw (tracked as CVE-2024-27834) on systems running macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura with improved checks. While Apple only said that the vulnerability was reported by Manfred Paul,…
Read MoreApple has backported security patches released in March to older iPhones and iPads, fixing an iOS zero-day tagged as exploited in attacks. […] Source link lol
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On Monday, Apple and Google jointly announced a new privacy feature that warns Android and iOS users when an unknown Bluetooth tracking device travels with them. Named Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers, the new feature started rolling out yesterday on Apple devices as part of iOS 17.5 and to Google users on Android 6.0+ devices. This new…
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VMware fixed four security vulnerabilities in the Workstation and Fusion desktop hypervisors, including three zero-days exploited during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking contest. The most severe flaw patched today is CVE-2024-22267, a use-after-free flaw in the vbluetooth device demoed by the STAR Labs SG and Theori teams. “A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on…
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