Jul 02, 2024NewsroomDigital Regulation / Tech News Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the…
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Jul 02, 2024NewsroomData Theft / Wi-Fi Security An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who…
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The cybersecurity vendor says the planned acquisition will assist with improving visibility across multiple types of assets and environments. Rapid7 announced Monday it has reached a deal to acquire Noetic Cyber, a startup whose technology is aimed at bolstering the vendor’s capabilities in cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM). The Boston-based cybersecurity vendor didn’t disclose…
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‘You’re getting improved data privacy and security through localized computing, as well as reduced cloud dependency because now you’re processing a lot of the data locally,’ says Vibha Rustagi, Cognizant’s global head of IoT and engineering. Global IT services provider Cognizant Monday unveiled Cognizant Neuro Edge, a new addition to its Neuro suite of technologies…
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Prudential Financial, a global financial services company, has revealed that over 2.5 million people had their personal information compromised in a February data breach. According to an 8-K form filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Prudential detected the incident on February 5, one day after the attackers (a suspected cybercrime group) breached its systems…
Read MoreApply appropriate updates provided by OpenSSH to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing. (M1051: Update Software) Safeguard 7.1: Establish and Maintain a Vulnerability Management Process: Establish and maintain a documented vulnerability management process for enterprise assets. Review and update documentation annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard. Safeguard 7.4: Perform…
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CDK Global says that its dealer management system (DMS), impacted by a massive IT outage following a June 18th ransomware attack, will be back online by Thursday for all car dealerships. The company is also working on restoring access to other affected applications, including its Customer Relationship Management (CRM), ONE-EIGHTY, and Service solutions. “We are…
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“From a theoretical point of view, we must find a useful code path that, if interrupted at the right time by SIGALRM, leaves sshd in an inconsistent state, and we must then exploit this inconsistent state inside the SIGALRM handler,” the researchers wrote in their technical advisory. “From a practical point of view, we must…
Read MoreUpcoming Book on AI and Democracy If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce that we’re writing a book on the topic. This isn’t a book about deep fakes, or misinformation. This is a…
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An Australian man was charged by Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) for allegedly conducting an ‘evil twin’ WiFi attack on various domestic flights and airports in Perth, Melbourne, and Adelaide to steal other people’s email or social media credentials. The police started investigating reports from airline employees in April 2024 and found evidence of the man…
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