Source: thehackernews.com β Author: . A new report from XM Cyber has found β among other insights β a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The State of Exposure Management in 2024, is based on [β¦]
Source: securityboulevard.com β Author: Nathan Eddy Ransomware claims surged by 64% year-over-year, particularly among mid-market and emerging businesses. There was a sharp rise in βindirectβ ransomware incidents, which grew by more than 415% compared to 2022. These were among the key findings from At-Bayβs investigation into the anatomy of ransomware attacks in the U.S. in [β¦]
Overall ransomware frequency grew by 64% in 2023, with increases in both direct and indirect ransomware. Victims paid $282,000 in ransom on average, a 77% drop in price, and half the companies avoided paying a ransom completely.
A review of a limited number of cases of unresponsive patients with severe traumatic brain injuries raised questions about a custom of making a decision within 72 hours.
The landscape of VPN technology is rapidly changing, signaling potential obsolescence as new threats specifically target these technologies. In recent research by Veriti, weβve observed a significant increase in attacks on VPN infrastructures, with a focus on exploiting vulnerabilities that have been prevalent but not always prioritized for remediation.Β In the past few weeks alone, [β¦]
It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanishedΒ by 2024.
Nearly, that is, because the dogged researchers and enthusiasts at The Serial Port channel on YouTube have found what is likely the last existing copy of Archie. Archie, first crafted by Alan Emtage while a student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, allowed for the searching of various "anonymous" FTP servers around what was then a very small web of universities, researchers, and government and military nodes. It was groundbreaking; it was the first echo of the "anything, anywhere" Internet to come. And when The Serial Port went looking, it very much did not exist.
The Serial Port's journey from wondering where the last Archie server was to hosting its own.
While Archie would eventually be supplanted by Gopher, web portals, and search engines, it remains a useful way to index FTP sites and certainly should be preserved. The Serial Port did this, and the road to get there is remarkable and intriguing. You are best off watching the video of their rescue, along with its explanatory preamble. But I present here some notable bits of the tale, perhaps to tempt you into digging further.
An NHS trustβs attempts to bring a crucial drug to market itself is hopeful news for patients
Dr Catriona Crombie is the head of rare disease at medical charity LifeArc
Healthcare should make peopleβs lives better. That fact can hardly be contested. Yet for some patients with rare diseases, commercial interests are dictating who gets to access life-saving treatment and who doesnβt. Pharmaceutical companies have long been driven by global demand and the potential for the highest profits. In the past two decades, the market has exploded: pharma revenues worldwide have exceeded $1tn. For patients with common conditions, this investment in healthcare can only be good news. But the narrow focus of this strategy means that, in the UK, the one in 17 of us who will at some point be affected by a rare condition risk being forgotten.
That is until now. Healthcare providers, driven by a desire to make life-saving treatments more widely available, are increasingly finding new ways of getting them to patients for whom they would have previously been out of reach. Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) recently announced that it was taking the unprecedented step of attempting to obtain the licence itself for a rare gene therapy on a non-profit basis, after the pharmaceutical company that planned to bring it to market dropped out. If successful, it will be the first time that an NHS trust has the authorisation to market a drug for this kind of treatment. The move could act as a proof of concept for bringing drugs to UK patients that pharmaceutical companies arenβt willing to risk their profits on.
Dr Catriona Crombie is the head of rare disease at medical charity LifeArc
Source: news.sophos.com β Author: Angela Gunn The deluge of patches in April dried up substantially in May, as Microsoft on Tuesday released 59 patches touching 11 product families. Windows as usual takes the lionβs share of patches with 48, with the rest spread among .NET, 365 Apps for Enterprise, Azure, Bing Search for iOS, Dynamics [β¦]
New research shows the βupside-down treesβ originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.
After backlash over Google's search engine becoming the primary traffic source for deepfake porn websites, Google has started burying these links in search results, Bloomberg reported.
Over the past year, Google has been driving millions to controversial sites distributing AI-generated pornography depicting real people in fake sex videos that were created without their consent, Similarweb found. While anyone can be targetedβpolice already are bogged down with dealing with a flood of fake AI child sex imagesβfemale celebrities are the most common victims. And their fake non-consensual intimate imagery is more easily discoverable on Google by searching just about any famous name with the keyword "deepfake," Bloomberg noted.
Google refers to this content as "involuntary fake" or "synthetic pornography." The search engine provides a path for victims to report that content whenever it appears in search results. And when processing these requests, Google also removes duplicates of any flagged deepfakes.
Search is still important to Google, but soon it will change. At its all-in-one AI Google I/O event Tuesday, the company introduced a host of AI-enabled features coming to Google Search at various points in the near future, which will "do more for you than you ever imagined."
"Google will do the Googling for you," said Liz Reid, Google's head of Search.
It's not AI in every search, but it will seemingly be hard to avoid a lot of offers to help you find, plan, and brainstorm things. "AI Overviews," the successor to the Search Generative Experience, will provide summary answers to questions, along with links to sources. You can also soon submit a video as a search query, perhaps to identify objects or provide your own prompts by voice.
Researchers had been testing a sprayer that could one day be used to push a salty mist skyward, cooling the Earth. Officials stopped the work, citing health questions.
A science video maker in China couldnβt find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.
Our ongoing research has identified remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in F5βs Next Central Manager that can give attackers full administrative control of the device, and subsequently allow attackers to create accounts on any F5 assets managed by the Next Central Manager. These attacker-controlled accounts would not be visible from the Next Central Manager itself, enabling ongoing [β¦]
Last week, Microsoft announced the public preview of external authentication methods (EAM) for Entra ID. As a close partner, HYPR has worked extensively with Microsoft on the new offering and we are excited to be one of the first external authentication method integrations. This means organizations can now choose HYPR phishing-resistant authentication for their Entra ID MFA method, use it in Entra ID Conditional Access policies, Privileged Identity Management, and more.
People with two copies of the gene variant APOE4 are almost certain to get Alzheimerβs, say researchers, who proposed a framework under which such patients could be diagnosed years before symptoms.
Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.
FIDO2 is a modern authentication group term for passwordless authentication. The Fast Identity Online (FIDO)Β Alliance developed it to replace the use of legacy known passwords and provide a secure method to authenticate using a physical or embedded key.Β Β FIDO2 is mostly known to protect people from man-in-the-middle (MITM), phishing and session hijacking attacks.Β Β In this...
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.