2024
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 more critical than ever in this modern threat…
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 a small but important fact: When PCs boot,…
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.…
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.…
Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos
With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious Updated Internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings, an IT services provider contracted with the Department of Defense and other US government agencies, have been leaked on the dark web.…
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.…
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 Updated 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 while extracting human labor worth billions.…
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.…
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.…
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.…