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Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff
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
Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months.…
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Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models
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
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
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 build and recruit colleagues for an AI cloud startup. …
Biden's budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B
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.…
JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers
Last week, we wrote about how security outfit Rapid7 threw JetBrains, the company behind the popular CI/CD platform TeamCity, under the bus over allegations of silent patching. Now, JetBrains has gone on the offensive.…
UK council yanks IT systems and phone lines offline following cyber ambush
Leicester City Council says IT systems and a number of its critical service phone lines will remain down until later this week at the earliest following a "cyber incident".…
French government sites disrupted by <i>très grande</i> DDoS
Several French government websites have been disrupted by a severe distributed denial of service attack.…
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain
The Biden administration and US lawmakers are turning up the pressure on UnitedHealth group to ease medical providers' pain after the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, by expediting payments to hospitals, physicians and pharmacists – among other tactics.…
Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems
The Kremlin has accused the United States of meddling in Russia's upcoming presidential election, and even accused Uncle Sam of planning a cyberattack on the country's online voting system.…
British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild
The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023.…
How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on "consent or pay" business models. We're sure readers of The Register will have a fair few things to say.…
Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability
Infosec in brief Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the "holy grail" of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year, but Redmond still took six months to patch the problem.…
Cybercrime crew Magnet Goblin bursts onto the scene exploiting Ivanti holes
There's yet another group of miscreants out there hijacking insecure Ivanti devices: A new, financially motivated gang dubbed Magnet Goblin has emerged from the shadowy digital depths with a knack for rapidly exploiting newly disclosed vulnerabilities before vendors have issued a fix.…
Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems
Microsoft has now confirmed that the Russian cyberspies who broke into its executives' email accounts stole source code and gained access to internal systems. The Redmond giant also characterized the intrusion as "ongoing."…
Change Healthcare registers pulse after crippling ransomware attack
Change Healthcare has taken the first steps toward a full recovery from the ransomware attack in February by bringing its electronic prescription services back online.…
Swiss cheese security? Play ransomware gang milks government of 65,000 files
The Swiss government had around 65,000 files related to it stolen by the Play ransomware gang during an attack on an IT supplier, its National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) says.…
Font security 'still a Helvetica of a problem' says Australian graphics outfit Canva
Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three – in "strange places."…