September 2023

World’s most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second 19/09/2023 at 03:03 By Katyanna Quach US DoE particle will be a ‘strobe light’ in atomic disco The world’s most powerful publicly known X-ray laser at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has fired its first pulses with an […]

Thousands of Juniper Junos firewalls still open to hijacks, exploit code available to all 19/09/2023 at 01:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Flaws fixed in August, admins seem to have taken the summer off About 79 percent of public-facing Juniper SRX firewalls remain vulnerable to a single security flaw can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely

Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging 19/09/2023 at 01:02 By Tobias Mann Don’t get too excited, tech won’t be ready until the end of the decade Intel’s latest gambit to keep Moores’ Law on life support involves ditching organic substrates — the intermediary through which data and power flows on

SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale 19/09/2023 at 00:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it Ride sharing firm Lyft has agreed to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission $10 million to settle charges that it failed to

Nuance Communications announces data breach affecting healthcare 18/09/2023 at 23:46 By St. Luke’s Health Systems in Boise, Idaho informed patients of a data breach involving Nuance Communications and MOVEit Transfer software. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Former CIO accuses Penn State of faking cybersecurity compliance 18/09/2023 at 23:20 By Thomas Claburn Now-NASA boffin not impressed Last October, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) was sued by a former chief information officer for allegedly falsifying government security compliance reports.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure 18/09/2023 at 22:43 By Brandon Vigliarolo Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp Panos Panay, Microsoft chief product officer and VP for devices, abruptly announced his departure today after 19 years with the company. … This article

Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google 18/09/2023 at 21:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo ITC judge rules you can’t sue over invalid patents, but the fight goes on The years-long legal drama resulting from a brief fling between Google and smart speaker maker Sonos has resulted in another loss for the Chocolate Factory,

Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder 18/09/2023 at 21:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Included secrets, private keys, passwords, 30,000+ internal Teams messages A Microsoft employee accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of private data while publishing a bucket of open-source AI training data on GitHub, according to Wiz security researchers who spotted

AI included in DHS national security risks for 2024 18/09/2023 at 21:01 By The DHS released the 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA), which found that foreign and domestic terrorism posed a high risk for 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement 18/09/2023 at 20:21 By Jude Karabus Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick? A group of large US science and education publishers are trying to get “notorious” online database Library Genesis – known by students as LibGen – kicked offline and claw