Tag: technews

Advanced cyber attacks by a charming kitten are targeting Iranian dissidents. Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has warned of cyber attacks that it believes will target Iranian citizens and organizations until 2022. The agency blames the attacks on a threat actor called Charming Kitten, also known as APT35, Mint Sandstorm,…

Identity Threat Detection and Response: Protecting Your Identity Fabric Why SaaS Security Is a Challenge In the digital landscape, organizations increasingly rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to drive their operations. To protect these applications, security management must go beyond identity threat detection and response. For example, an organization may need to implement Mitre ATTandCK Mapping…

Latin American Users Targeted by New Financial Malware ‘JanelaRAT’ The Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers have discovered a new type of malware called JanelaRAT that steals financial and cryptocurrency data from compromised Microsoft Windows systems in Latin America. The tool uses a DLL script to load a ZIP archive from the attackers’ server and drop a batch…

The New York Times forbids using its content to train AI models, except for research purposes The New York Times has taken steps to prevent its articles from being used to train artificial intelligence models. Its permission to do so was granted in response to a recent update to Google’s privacy policy that discloses the…

The AI backlash has claimed a new victim—and you’ve probably never heard of it Zachary Rosenberg and his friend Benji Smith are back home in a small town just outside of Portland, Oregon. They discovered Prosecraft, a website that offered linguistic analysis on novels for free. On Monday, they awoke to find their work analyzed…

India Passes New Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, Enhancing User Privacy Indian President Droupadi Murmu grants assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDPB) after it was unanimously passed by both houses of the parliament last week. The bill provides for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognizes both the…

Mark Zuckerberg has said it is “time to move on” from his dispute with Tesla This follows a pair of screenshots of text messages between the two billionaires that were posted to X today by user DogeDesigner and, later, Musk himself. The thread showed Musk offering a practice bout next week at Zuckerberg’s house, to…

Apple’s M3 Ultra Mac Studio could have a 32-core CPU and Apple is reportedly testing an upgraded version of its M2 Ultra chip called the M3 Ultra with a higher GPU and a bigger CPU. The company is so impressed with what the new chips can do that it is pushing the price of its…

CyberPower and Dataprobe Products have Multiple Flaws that Put Data Centers at CyberPower has discovered nine security vulnerabilities in its PowerPanel Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform and Dataprobe’s iBoot Power Distribution Unit (PDU) dataprobe. These vulnerabilities, which have severity scores ranging from 6.7 to 9.8, enable threat actors to shut down entire data…

Zoom, AudioCodes Phones Have Flaws That Expose Users to E In a paper published Friday, security researcher Moritz Abrell warns that AudioCodes desk phones and Zoom’s zero touch provisioning feature could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote control over these devices. The problems are rooted in Zoom’s ZTP, which allows IT administrators to…