July 2023

US unhappy about China’s tech pushback, rules out decoupling 10/07/2023 at 16:48 By Laura Dobberstein When we sanction you, it’s for national security. When you sanction us, that’s just spiteful US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has attempted to reset US/China relations, while also framing recent tech-related measures imposed by Beijing as inappropriate.… This article is

New Mozilla Feature Blocks Risky Add-Ons on Specific Websites to Safeguard User Security 10/07/2023 at 16:33 By Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. “We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to

BT CEO Jansen confirms he’s quitting within 12 months 10/07/2023 at 16:04 By Paul Kunert FTTP builds? 25M homes target on track. 68% coverage of 5G in UK. Mega redundancies programme initiated. He’s off BT’s CEO Philip Jansen today fired the starting gun on the race to find his successor by confirming he intends to

New TOITOIN Banking Trojan Targeting Latin American Businesses 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By Businesses operating in the Latin American (LATAM) region are the target of a new Windows-based banking trojan called TOITOIN since May 2023. “This sophisticated campaign employs a trojan that follows a multi-staged infection chain, utilizing specially crafted modules throughout each stage,” Zscaler researchers Niraj Shivtarkar

Global Retailers Must Keep an Eye on Their SaaS Stack 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By Brick-and-mortar retailers and e-commerce sellers may be locked in a fierce battle for market share, but one area both can agree on is the need to secure their SaaS stack. From communications tools to order management and fulfillment systems, much of

RomCom RAT Targeting NATO and Ukraine Support Groups 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By The threat actors behind the RomCom RAT have been suspected of phishing attacks targeting the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius as well as an identified organization supporting Ukraine abroad. The findings come from the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team, which found two malicious documents submitted from

Hackers Steal $20 Million by Exploiting Flaw in Revolut’s Payment Systems 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By Malicious actors exploited an unknown flaw in Revolut’s payment systems to steal more than $20 million of the company’s funds in early 2022. The development was reported by the Financial Times, citing multiple unnamed sources with knowledge of the incident. The breach

Number of pensioners hurt by DWP legacy system error actually 65,000 10/07/2023 at 15:01 By Lindsay Clark UK benefits department forced to use ‘legacy bridge’ to help reduce error after underpaying people by c £1B The UK’s government has upped its estimate of the number of people hit by a state pension underpayment related to

Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog 10/07/2023 at 13:38 By Dan Robinson Ofcom takes quick glance, says: It’s off to the CMA with you The cloud infrastructure market should be referred to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for investigation, says telecoms regulator Ofcom in a freshly filed

Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT 10/07/2023 at 13:00 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models In brief  Award-winning novelists Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, and, separately comedian Sarah Silverman and novelists

The AI arms race could give us the cool without the cruel 10/07/2023 at 11:50 By Rupert Goodwins War is obscene but it’s also responsible for many technological advances Opinion  Every week there are so many stories about different things but with a common theme.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right? 10/07/2023 at 10:35 By Matthew JC Powell Health service techie learns what happens when you brute-force a bureaucracy Who, Me?  Ah, dear reader, it’s so delightful to have your company once again for Who, Me? in which fine upstanding Regizens like yourself regale us