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Selling technology investments to the board: a strategic guide for CISOs and CIOs
The C-suite will have zero interest in zero trust without a good business case Partner Content In today's enterprise environment, technology investments are no longer judged solely by their technical sophistication. Approval depends on their ability to support business goals, mitigate risk, and create value for shareholders. CIOs…
China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’
MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.…
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters
Using AI to attack AI Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says
When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…
Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day – patch now or risk full system compromise
Seventh Chrome 0-day this year Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.…
Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds
They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography advice Gen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.…
‘Largest-ever’ cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second
Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…
Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says
Ready, aim, mire Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …
Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn’t a sustainable side hustle
Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US…
Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep
Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist…