March 2024
US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan
Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act – a law aimed at forcing TikTok's Chinese parent…
Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack
Akira ransomware crooks brag of swiping thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack on its systems – perhaps by the Akira…
Poking holes in Google tech bagged bug hunters $10M
A $2M drop from previous year. So … things are more secure? Google awarded $10 million to 632 bug hunters last year through its vulnerability reward programs.…
Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff
Automated AI helper intended to make security more manageable Microsoft Copilot for Security, a subscription AI security service, will be generally available on April 1, 2024, the company announced on Wednesday.…
Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months
27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months.…
Reducing the cloud security overhead
Why creating a layered defensive strategy that includes security by design can help address cloud challenges Sponsored Feature The world is filled with choices. Whether it's the 20 different types of shampoo on offer at the grocery store, or the dozens of Linux distros you can try for…
Researchers jimmy OpenAI’s and Google’s closed models
Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets Boffins have managed to pry open closed AI services from OpenAI and Google with an attack that recovers an otherwise hidden portion of transformer models.…
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet Patch Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch drop has arrived, delivering a mere 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities – none listed as under active attack or already known to the public.…
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints
Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup An ex-Meta veep has been sued by his former bosses for "brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct" – and by that, they mean he allegedly stole confidential documents to help him…
Biden’s budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B
Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve an extra $103 million in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, bringing CISA's total budget to $3 billion.…