November 2024
Sweden’s ‘Doomsday Prep for Dummies’ guide hits mailboxes today
First in six years is nearly three times the size of the older, pre-NATO version Residents of Sweden are to receive a handy new guide this week that details how to prepare for various types of crisis situations or wartime should geopolitical events threaten the country.…
Deepen your knowledge of Linux security
Event The security landscape is constantly shifting. If you're running Linux, staying ahead may rely on understanding the challenges - and opportunities - unique to Linux environments.…
Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years
PLUS: Cost of Halliburton hack disclosed; Time to dump old D-Link NAS; More UN cybercrime convention concerns; and more Infosec in brief A teenager has pleaded guilty to calling in more than 375 fake threats to law enforcement, and now faces years in prison.…
Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?
Here's why they really should Systems Approach I have been playing around with passkeys, or as they are formally known, discoverable credentials.…
Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
It's memory-safe, with a few caveats Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn't involve learning Rust.…
Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware
QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system Switzerland's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about malware being spread via the country's postal service.…
Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M
Digital money laundering pays, until it doesn't An Ohio man, who operated the Grams dark-web search engine and the Helix cryptocurrency money-laundering service associated with it, has been sentenced to three years in prison.…
Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you’d expect
LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you'd never know it from the behavior of today's robots or those making them.…
Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit
Yank access to management interface, stat A critical zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' firewall management interface that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code is now officially under active exploitation.…
Simplifying endpoint security
Discover unified strategies to secure and manage all endpoints across your organization Webinar As organizations expand their digital footprint, the range of endpoints - spanning from laptops to IoT devices - continues to grow.…