Security News > 2022 > January
Microsoft has started the forced rollout of Windows 10, version 21H2 to more devices approaching the end of service as part of a first machine learning training phase. Windows 10 21H2 is also rolling out to seekers on Windows 10 2004 or newer through a fast update experience similar to a monthly update.
One project the team was working on required a website so a domain name was needed. "So the PA came to me and asked if I knew how to do that. It happened that I was very familiar with the process, since I had registered myself multiple domain names."
The United Kingdom and Australia have signed a Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership that will, among other things, transport criminals to a harsh penal regime on the other side of the world. What we do know is that the two nations have pledged to "Increase deterrence by raising the costs for hostile state activity in cyberspace - including through strategic co-ordination of our cyber sanctions regimes." That's code for both nations adopting the same deterrents and punishments for online malfeasance so that malfeasants can't shop jurisdictions to find more lenient penalties.
A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users' PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan's Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware. Tokyo High Court ruled against the defendant, 34-year-old Seiya Moroi, on charges of keeping electromagnetic records of an unjust program.
Typically, these are kept safe by hardware-based cryptographic solutions known as Hardware Security Modules, or HSMs. This chainlink of using a new secret to protect a secret is known as the Secret Zero Problem. Secrets management should be done in a way where both users and machines have a secure, transparent, and scalable way to obtain, issue, and revoke secrets.
Two years ago, IT leaders were forced into remote work. Today, they see it for what it is: the future of work.
Bugcrowd released its report to spotlight the key cybersecurity trends from 2021, including the rise in the adoption of crowdsourced security due to the global shift to hybrid and remote work models, and the rapid digital transformation associated with it. Ransomware overtook personal data breaches as the threat that dominated cybersecurity news across the world in 2021.
According to a research by Tenable, at least 40,417,167,937 records were exposed worldwide in 2021, calculated by the analysis of 1,825 breach data incidents publicly disclosed between November 2020 and October 2021. This is a considerable increase on the same period in 2020, which saw 730 publicly disclosed events with just over 22 billion records exposed.
Russia has floated the prospect of Putin a ban on cryptocurrencies. The Bank of Russia, the nation's central bank, yesterday published a Consultation Paper [PDF] titled "Cryptocurrencies: Trends, Risks, and Regulation" that ponders the impact of unbacked cryptocurrencies and stablecoins on Russia's economy.
As the number of electric cars on the road grows, so does the need for their electric vehicle charging stations and the internet-based managing systems within those stations. The systems built into electric cars perform critical duties over the internet, including remote monitoring and customer billing, as do a growing number of internet-enabled EV charging stations.