Those national security threat claims? ‘No evidence,’ VP tells The Reg Exclusive Despite the Feds’ determination to ban Kaspersky’s security software in the US, the Russian business is moving forward with another proposal to open up its data and products…
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Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job
Are your security and ops teams fighting to pass the buck? Comment Patching: The bane of every IT professional’s existence. It’s a thankless, laborious job that no one wants to do, goes unappreciated when it interrupts work, and yet it’s…
How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike’d Windows PCs in a flash
This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really Not long after Windows PCs and servers at the Australian limb of audit and tax advisory Grant Thornton started BSODing last Friday, senior systems engineer Rob Woltz remembered…
The months and days before and after CrowdStrike’s fatal Friday
‘In the short term, they’re going to have to do a lot of groveling’ Analysis The great irony of the CrowdStrike fiasco is that a cybersecurity company caused the exact sort of massive global outage it was supposed to prevent.…
Fatal timeline of CrowdStrike’s week from hell – Feb to now
‘In the short term, they’re going to have to do a lot of groveling’ Analysis The great irony of the CrowdStrike fiasco is that a cybersecurity company caused the exact sort of massive global outage it was supposed to prevent.…
Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome’s Topics ad tech
Yes, you can be fingerprinted and tracked via Privacy Sandbox – tho the risk is low Apple last week celebrated a slew of privacy changes coming to its Safari browser and took the time to bash rival Google for its…
Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines
Concerns abound over why it has taken so long to recover compared to competitors The US Department of Transportation (DoT) is investigating Delta Air Lines over its handling of the global IT outage caused by CrowdStrike’s content update.… This article…
Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen
Not now, Microsoft Some Windows devices are presenting users with a BitLocker recovery screen upon reboot following the installation of July’s Patch Tuesday update.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Windows Patch…
Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos
With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious Internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings, an IT services provider contracted with the Department of Defense and other US government agencies, have been leaked.… This article has been indexed…
School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen
Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021 The UK’s data protection watchdog has reprimanded a school in Essex for using facial recognition for canteen payments, nearly three years after other schools were warned about doing the same.… This article has…
Forget security – Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Web puzzles don’t protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it’s harvesting information…
CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made
Something called ‘Content Validator’ did not validate the content, and the rest is history CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Security biz KnowBe4 hired fake North Korean techie, who got straight to work … on evil
If it can happen to folks that run social engineering defence training, what hope for the rest of us? Security awareness and training provider KnowBe4 hired a fake North Korean IT worker for a software engineering role on its AI…
Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers
President apologizes in advance for job losses The Philippines has decided to dismantle the worst of its offshored industries: the bits that run gambling and scam operations.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
How did a CrowdStrike config file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code
Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too? Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft Windows machines around the…
How did a CrowdStrike config file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look
Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too? Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft Windows machines around the…
Protecting AI systems from cyber threats
Join Intel, DETASAD, Juniper Networks, and Arqit to hear essential strategies in this webinar on July 30th Webinar Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries worldwide, but with great power comes great responsibility.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage
How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind? If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it’s to understand exactly what delayed updates mean – or don’t mean – in the anti-malware world.……
Cybercrooks spell trouble with typosquatting domains amid CrowdStrike crisis
Latest trend follows various malware campaigns that began just hours after IT calamity Thousands of typosquatting domains are now registered to exploit the desperation of IT admins still struggling to recover from last week’s CrowdStrike outage, researchers say.… This article…
Alphabet’s reported $23B bet on Wiz fizzles out
Cybersecurity outfit to go its own way to IPO and $1B ARR On the day of Alphabet’s Q2 earnings call, cybersecurity firm Wiz has walked from a $23 billion takeover bid by Google’s parent company.… This article has been indexed…