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North Koreans using new zero-day to target security researchers

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A nation-state threat actor backed by the North Korean government has begun a new phase of a nearly two-year-old campaign targeting legitimate cyber security researchers, leveraging an as-yet undisclosed zero-day to gain access to their victims. The zero-day in question was uncovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). It has been reported to the supplier whose…

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PAX Organizer ReedPop And The ESA End E3 Partnership

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E3 2023 was canceled back in March, and PAX organizer ReedPop was in charge of organizing the event, the first of a multi-year contract. However, E3’s overseer the ESA has announced this partnership will not continue. According to GameIndustry.biz, the ESA and ReedPop have come to a mutual decision to part ways. On top of…

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Microsoft finds Storm-0558 exploited crash dump to steal signing key

4 minutes of reading / API, Azure, Computer, Microsoft, Tech / By

Microsoft has published details of how a Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as Storm-0558 was able to get its hands on a Microsoft account (MSA) consumer key to forge tokens with which they accessed OWA and Outlook.com accounts at multiple high-profile customers. The incident, which was first disclosed on Tuesday 11 July,…

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Government AI taskforce appoints new advisory board members

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The UK government is filling out the ranks of its artificial intelligence (AI) taskforce advisory board with figures from industry, academia and national security amid a rebrand. First announced in April 2023 as the AI Foundation Model Taskforce, along with £100m funding from the government, the body was created to take forward cutting-edge AI safety…

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CIO interview: Cynthia Stoddard, Adobe

7 minutes of reading / Adobe, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Cloud, Computer, data analytics, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech / By

Cynthia Stoddard joined Adobe as CIO in June 2016 and developed an IT transformation strategy that drew on a co-development approach with the rest of the business. Seven years on and Stoddard has seen much of that transformation effort – from embracing the cloud to boosting the employee experience and onto introducing robotic process automation (RPA)…

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Meet the professional BEC op that targeted Microsoft 365 users for years

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Researchers at Singapore-based Group-IB have published a major report exposing the activities of a hitherto little-known cyber criminal operation that ran a “phishing empire” which targeted and compromised thousands of Microsoft 365 business email accounts over a six-year period. The so-called W3LL operation distributed multiple customised phishing kits through a hidden underground market, W3LL Store,…

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Researchers find flaw in Mend.io security platform

3 minutes of reading / Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, Siemens, Tech, Toshiba / By

Mend.io, the Israel-based supplier of a popular software that helps developers identify and remediate vulnerabilities and security issues in their code libraries, has sealed a potentially dangerous vulnerability in its application security platform that was uncovered by the research team at WithSecure. The vulnerability, which is being publicly disclosed today after a four-month remediation process,…

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Police Scotland five-year digital strategy approved

4 minutes of reading / AI, augmented reality, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Computer, data science, digital transformation, machine learning, Microsoft, natural language processing, Tech / By

The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has approved a five-year digital strategy for Police Scotland that seeks to shift the force from “doing digital” to “being digital” through a series of investments into both new and existing technology capabilities. Drafted with the assistance of consultancy firm Ernst & Young and XXX Capgemini, the strategy outlines priorities…

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Teams unbundled in European economic community

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Microsoft has made changes to Teams, following the European Commission’s formal investigation into its bundling of the collaboration tool with Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites. In a blog post announcing the change, Nanna-Louise Linde, vice-president of Microsoft European government affairs, wrote: “These changes will impact our Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites for business…

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