Tag: legal action
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The Register: Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/research_security_pros_gain_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks Feedly Summary: Data leak, shmata leak. It will all work out, right? IT and security pros say they are more confident in their ability to manage ransomware attacks after nearly nine in ten (88 percent)…
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Schneier on Security: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/biden-signs-new-cybersecurity-order.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order Feedly Summary: President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide. Some details: The core of the executive order is an array of mandates…
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The Register: Microsoft sues ‘foreign-based’ criminals, seizes sites used to abuse AI
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/microsoft_sues_foreignbased_crims_seizes/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft sues ‘foreign-based’ criminals, seizes sites used to abuse AI Feedly Summary: Crooks stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz Microsoft has sued a group of unnamed cybercriminals who developed tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI tools. The tools were used to create harmful…
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Schneier on Security: Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against AI “Hacking as a Service” Scheme
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/microsoft-takes-legal-action-against-ai-hacking-as-a-service-scheme.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against AI “Hacking as a Service” Scheme Feedly Summary: Not sure this will matter in the end, but it’s a positive move: Microsoft is accusing three individuals of running a “hacking-as-a-service” scheme that was designed to allow the creation of harmful and illicit…
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The Register: Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/ Source: The Register Title: Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Feedly Summary: Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy make migration a mission Exclusive Broadcom has lost another large customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs,…
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The Register: Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/german_router_maker_avm_lgpl/ Source: The Register Title: Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL Feedly Summary: On the Fritz: German router maker AVM declines to appeal in device rights case after coughing up source code Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for…