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Ransomware-hit Rackspace email outage enters 12th day
WEBDec 14, 2022 · Updated There's no end – or restored data – in sight for some Rackspace customers now on day 12 of the company's ransomware-induced hosted Exchange email outage. In the service provider's most recent update, posted at 0844 Eastern Time on Wednesday, Rackspace said it had hired CrowdStrike to investigate the fiasco, and noted it …
Microsoft patches CVE-2024-38063 IPv6 RCE vulnerability
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks. Microsoft listed four vulnerabilities as publicly disclosed, albeit not yet exploited, so maybe put these high on your to-patch list: CVE-2024-38200 – a Microsoft Office Spoofing Vulnerability with a 6.5 CVSS rating. CVE-2024-38199 – a Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service RCE ...
University students are using AI to write essays. Now what?
WEBDec 27, 2022 · Feature As word of students using AI to automatically complete essays continues to spread, some lecturers are beginning to rethink how they should teach their pupils to write.. Writing is a difficult task to do well. The best novelists and poets write furiously, dedicating their lives to mastering their craft. The creative process of stringing together words to communicate thoughts is often ...
BT puts old phone books online - The Register
WEBNov 29, 2007 · BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538. The phone books date back to 1880 and contain 280 million names. They can be used to track down relatives, but you can also use the service to find ...
BOFH: So you want a faster computer • The Register
WEBOct 22, 2021 · Push your machine off your desk – no, better still, bring it down to us to 'check' and on the way down the stairs heave it over the side." "People would know I'd done it." "No, some people might wonder if you'd done it, but no one would think you'd done it on purpose. See the key is to have a plausible excuse for the damage.
Feds and eight US states sue RealPage for rent price fixing
WEBAug 23, 2024 · The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commision began probing RealPage two years ago at the behest of concerned lawmakers. The inquiry followed a private lawsuit against the company that alleged RealPage functioned as a cartel to drive up rent prices for the benefit of landlords.. Earlier this month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban algorithmic price setting in the ...
Capita breach class action nears 1,000 sign-ups • The Register
WEBJul 21, 2023 · The law firm that last month sent a Letter of Claim to Capita over a security breach in late March says it has signed up nearly 1,000 clients as it prepares a class action lawsuit aimed at the outsourcing giant. UK-based Capita confirmed the cyber-burglary in early April, saying at the time intruders had spent nine days on the inside of its IT ...
Capita class action: 2,000 sign up in wake of data theft
WEBWed 13 Sep 2023 // 10:02 UTC. The number of claimants signing up to a collective action against Capita over the infamous March cyber security break-in and subsequent data exposure keeps going up, according to the lawyer overseeing the case. Manchester-based Barings Law dispatched a legal Letter of Claim to Capita concerning the breach in June ...
Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government sites
WEBSimon Sharwood. Wed 21 Aug 2024 // 07:35 UTC. A US man has been sentenced to 81 months in jail for faking his own death by hacking government systems and officially marking himself as deceased. The US Department of Justice on Tuesday detailed the case of Jesse Kipf, 39, who was sent down for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.