25 Jul

You should probably fix this 5-year-old critical Docker vuln fairly sharpish

Docker is warning users to rev their Docker Engine into patch mode after it realized a near-maximum severity vulnerability had been sticking around for five

Author rabih
25 Jul

Kaspersky says Uncle Sam snubbed proposal to open up its code for third-party review

Exclusive Despite the Feds’ determination to ban Kaspersky’s security software in the US, the Russian business is moving forward with another proposal to open up

Author rabih
25 Jul

Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job

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

Author rabih
25 Jul

How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike’d Windows PCs in a flash

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

Author rabih
25 Jul

The months and days before and after CrowdStrike’s fatal Friday

Analysis The great irony of the CrowdStrike fiasco is that a cybersecurity company caused the exact sort of massive global outage it was supposed to

Author rabih
25 Jul

Fatal timeline of CrowdStrike’s week from hell – Feb to now

Analysis The great irony of the CrowdStrike fiasco is that a cybersecurity company caused the exact sort of massive global outage it was supposed to

Author rabih
24 Jul

How did a CrowdStrike file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft

Author rabih
24 Jul

Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome’s Topics ad tech

Apple last week celebrated a slew of privacy changes coming to its Safari browser and took the time to bash rival Google for its Topics

Author rabih
24 Jul

Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines

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. Delta

Author rabih
24 Jul

Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen

Some Windows devices are presenting users with a BitLocker recovery screen upon reboot following the installation of July’s Patch Tuesday update. Microsoft confirmed the issue

Author rabih
24 Jul

Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos

Internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings, an IT services provider contracted with the Department of Defense and other US government agencies, have been leaked. The

Author rabih
24 Jul

School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen

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

Author rabih
24 Jul

Forget security – Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

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

Author rabih
24 Jul

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week. A Wednesday update to its remediation guide added

Author rabih
24 Jul

Security biz KnowBe4 hired fake North Korean techie, who got straight to work … on evil

Security awareness and training provider KnowBe4 hired a fake North Korean IT worker for a software engineering role on its AI team, and only realized

Author rabih
24 Jul

Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers

The Philippines has decided to dismantle the worst of its offshored industries: the bits that run gambling and scam operations. President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr

Author rabih
23 Jul

How did a CrowdStrike config file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft

Author rabih
23 Jul

How did a CrowdStrike config file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look

Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft

Author rabih
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