WFW keeps 16 of 18 summer qualifying trainees – Legal Cheek
89% Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has reported a strong summer trainee retention score of 89%. The City outfit confirmed that 16 of its 18 final-seat trainees will be staying…
Young barrister reprimanded over bar bottle incident – Legal Cheek
Pleaded guilty to assault The bar disciplinary tribunal has reprimanded an unregistered barrister following a late-night altercation at a Nottingham cocktail bar that led to an assault conviction. Benedicte Mabika,…
Warning to ServiceNow admins: Fix your access control lists now – CSO Online
A vulnerability in the way ServiceNow manages user access control lists can easily allow a threat actor to steal sensitive data, says a security vendor, who urges admins to review…
North American APT Uses Exchange Zero-Day to Attack China – Dark Reading
Stories about Chinese APTs attacking the US and Canada are plentiful. In a turnabout, researchers found what they believe is a North American entity attacking a Chinese entity, thanks to…
US Treasury Department sanctions individuals and entities over illegal IT worker scheme – CSO Online
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Tuesday imposed sanctions on two individuals and four companies involved in schemes to provide US companies with illegal…
Exploit details released for Citrix Bleed 2 flaw affecting NetScaler – CSO Online
Security researchers have released a technical analysis and proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical vulnerability fixed last month in Citrix NetScaler appliances that is suspected to have been exploited in…
LeO names firms “in public interest” as it publishes first full decisions – Legal Futures
The Legal Ombudsman has published three of its final decisions in full for the first time, including the names of the firms involved, arguing that the move increases transparency. The…
Infected blood inquiry urges SRA to crack down on ‘no win, no fee’ offers – Legal Futures
The head of the infected blood inquiry yesterday called on the SRA to tell solicitors that they should not be charging clients making a claim for compensation. The post Infected…
Paralegal rebuked for £1.85m payment error – Legal Futures
A senior paralegal has been rebuked for wrongly requesting the release of at least £1.85m to a property developer which later went bust, leaving his law firm to repay buyers.…
Browser Exploits Wane As Users Become The Attack Surface – Dark Reading
For browsers, exploitation is out — getting users to compromise their own systems is in. Improved browser security has forced attackers to adapt their tactics, and they’ve accepted the challenge.…
A NVIDIA Container Bug & Chance to Harden Kubernetes – Dark Reading
A container escape flaw involving the NVIDIA Container Toolkit could have enabled a threat actor to access AI datasets across tenants. – Read More
New AI Malware PoC Reliably Evades Microsoft Defender – Dark Reading
Worried about hackers employing LLMs to write powerful malware? Using targeted reinforcement learning (RL) to train open source models in specific tasks has yielded the capability to do just that.…
Gold Melody IAB Exploits Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys for Unauthorized Access to Targets – The Hacker News
The Initial Access Broker (IAB) known as Gold Melody has been attributed to a campaign that exploits leaked ASP.NET machine keys to obtain unauthorized access to organizations and peddle that…
AirMDR Tackles Security Burdens for SMBs With AI – Dark Reading
This security startup provides managed detection and response services for small-to-midsized businesses to detect and address modern threats such as ransomware, phishing attacks, and malicious insiders. – Read More
Rubio Impersonator Signals Growing Security Threat From Deepfakes – Dark Reading
An impostor who posed as the secretary of state in text and voice communications with diplomats and politicians demonstrates the increased sophistication of and national security threat posed by the…