Cybersecurity

Novel Ahoi attacks could compromise confidential VMs

Confidential virtual machines could be breached through two different types of novel Ahoi attacks, reports SecurityWeek. Intrusions leveraging the first technique, dubbed “Heckler,” involved the targeting of hardware-based trusted execution environments running on Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions and AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging technologies with malicious hypervisors that sought to facilitate authentication evasion and […]

Cybersecurity

Second accidental data leak in four months ‘regrettable’, finance department says

The finance department has accidentally shared confidential commercial information for the second time as new data reveals the number of human errors behind government data breaches. The department has confirmed that last week it emailed 236 suppliers, and that the email included “embedded information with some third-party confidential information”. The shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, […]

Cybersecurity

New OS Tool Tells You Who Has Access to What Data

Ensuring sensitive data remains confidential, protected from unauthorized access, and compliant with data privacy regulations is paramount. Data breaches result in financial and reputational damage but also lead to legal consequences. Therefore, robust data access security measures are essential to safeguard an organization’s assets, maintain customer trust, and meet regulatory requirements. A comprehensive Data Security […]