November 2023

Two sats, one customer: Japan’s mega-carrier NTT signs for Amazon’s space internet 29/11/2023 at 08:33 By Laura Dobberstein Take that, Elon Amazon has won a big and noteworthy client for its Project Kuiper space internet project, with Japanese telecom company NTT signing up for the service.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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GoTitan Botnet Spotted Exploiting Recent Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability 29/11/2023 at 08:16 By The recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Apache ActiveMQ is being actively exploited by threat actors to distribute a new Go-based botnet called GoTitan as well as a .NET program known as PrCtrl Rat that’s capable of remotely commandeering the infected hosts. The attacks involve the exploitation

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Zero-Day Alert: Google Chrome Under Active Attack, Exploiting New Vulnerability 29/11/2023 at 08:16 By Google has rolled out security updates to fix seven security issues in its Chrome browser, including a zero-day that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-6345, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as an integer overflow bug in

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VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint 29/11/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a ‘strategic review’ of end-user compute and Carbon Black products VMware president Sumit Dhawan has left the newly-acquired org to join security software vendor Proofpoint as its

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Japan’s digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament 29/11/2023 at 05:47 By Laura Dobberstein His job is to modernise Japan but Googling electoral trivia to ensure accurate answers is not allowed Japan’s digital minister, Taro Kono, faced a backlash on Monday after he attempted to use his smartphone to look up

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Zuckerberg accused of OK’ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids 29/11/2023 at 05:02 By Thomas Claburn ‘Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children … it is now there in black and white’ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of vetoing a proposed ban of Instagram and Facebook

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Someone else has a go at reforming US Section 702 spying powers – and nope, no warrant requirement 29/11/2023 at 04:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Back to plan A, then, eh? Some US lawmakers have tabled alternative legislation to reauthorize the Feds’ favorite snooping tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, before it

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Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal 29/11/2023 at 03:17 By Thomas Claburn Advertisers may be surprised to find where their banners appear Google Search ads paid for by US and EU government agencies and legislators, and by major companies, have been spotted in

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