Chinese government website security has big problems
Web2 days ago · Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems. Exclusive Five Chinese researchers examined the configurations of nearly 14,000 government websites across the country and found worrying lapses that could lead to malicious attacks, according to a not-yet-peer-reviewed study released last week.
Cop complaints won't stop E2EE, says encryption advocate
Web5 hours ago · Strong end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a practice of encrypting messages and other info between two endpoints so that even the provider of that encryption, and the carriers transferring the data, can't snoop on and read the contents. Law enforcement argues this leaves them unable to shut down serious crime – …
Profits, sales, AI costs rise for Alphabet and Microsoft
WebApr 26, 2024 · Alphabet and Microsoft's stock prices jumped in after-hours trading today after the AI-infatuated businesses delivered higher-than-anticipated quarterly earnings. Microsoft is right now up 4.3 percent to $416.25 apiece; the Google parent is up 11.4 percent to $176. Alphabet reported revenue of $80.5 billion, up 15 percent year-on-year, for its ...
Mandiant: Orgs are sniffing out cybercrims faster than ever
WebTue 23 Apr 2024 // 13:05 UTC. The average time taken by global organizations to detect cyberattacks has dropped to its lowest-ever level of ten days, Mandiant revealed today. The cyber shop says the downward trend continues from last year's 16 days and should be seen as "a big victory for the good guys," but a deeper look into the underlying ...
New Privacy Shield agreement is almost there – report
WebFeb 3, 2022 · Are we nearly there yet?
Programming language R patches code exec security flaw
Web4 days ago · The open source R programming language – popular among statisticians and data scientists for performing visualization, machine learning, and suchlike – has patched an arbitrary code execution hole that scored a preliminary CVSS severity rating of 8.8 out of 10. The vulnerability, tagged CVE-2024-27322, can be exploited by tricking someone ...
Everything you need to know about NIS2 • The Register
WebFeb 26, 2024 · Webinar The original European Union Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive certainly led to an improvement in member states' cybersecurity defences, but it struggled to do everything required as cyberattacks and threats scaled up with the growth in digitalization.. It's successor, the NIS2 Directive, becomes law in October 2024 and has been designed to turbocharge the cybersecurity ...
US government reportedly probes China’s use of RISC-V
WebWed 24 Apr 2024 // 02:16 UTC. The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). RISC-V is permissively licensed – developers can access the ISA for free and use it to create proprietary or open source implementations for ...
On the frontline of cyber threats • The Register
WebJun 8, 2023 · Webinar Rubrik Zero Lab's annual report on the state of data security is not a comfortable read. And as if to prepare you for what lies inside, the company has called it 'The Hard Truths.' What Rubrik Zero Labs spell out in its extensive research document is that we are all on the frontline when it comes to malicious actors.
Learning the safety language of the cloud • The Register
WebDec 13, 2023 · Protecting your cloud from cyber security threats starts by understanding what it’s telling you
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