2023

US Commerce Dept pinky swears it won’t push American spyware on world-plus-dog 03/11/2023 at 02:35 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Or maybe just not let foreign govts buy this stuff at all? The US Commerce Department has promised to stop promoting American-made commercial spyware to foreign governments.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Google gives up on that API that looked more than a bit like DRM for websites 03/11/2023 at 02:03 By Thomas Claburn Instead, Chocolate Factory focuses on more limited attestation for Android WebViews Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to

Scarlett Johansson sics lawyers on AI biz that cloned her for an ad 03/11/2023 at 01:05 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Beatles emit song with a little help from a neural network Lawyers representing Scarlett Johansson have pressured the developers of an AI avatar-generating app into taking down an advert that used the Hollywood mega-star’s face

Amazon’s $1.4B price-raising ‘Project Nessie’ algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight 03/11/2023 at 00:15 By Brandon Vigliarolo More details emerge from Loch Jassy, including how this was anything but a ‘scrapped’ project A fresh less-redacted copy of the US FTC’s monopoly-abuse lawsuit against Amazon has confirmed some of what we previously reported about the web

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it has three Safari browsers – not one 02/11/2023 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn’t buy it Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct

GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims 02/11/2023 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Zephr bags $3.5M, reckons its tech can pinpoint location to sub-60cm levels Interview  A startup that’s just emerged from stealth claims it’s solved smartphone GPS positioning problems by adding software to triangulate a handset with

OSHA strengthens whistleblower protections 02/11/2023 at 23:01 By The U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA is strengthening information sharing, referrals and training for anti-retaliation protections.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Pentagon seeks government gossips to dish dirt on UFOs 02/11/2023 at 21:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Online form isn’t for just anyone, so stow your crackpot theories for now The Pentagon’s UFO hunters have set up an online form to collect first-hand information about secret US government programs involving unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).… This article is

Infosec pros can secure IT, but have harder time securing job satisfaction 02/11/2023 at 21:12 By Connor Jones Industry facing burnout scare as workplace issues snowball The proportion of cybersecurity professionals reporting low “happiness ratings” has risen sharply over the last 12 months, raising concerns about increasing burnout rates in the industry.… This article is

Critical Apache ActiveMQ flaw under attack by ‘clumsy’ ransomware crims 02/11/2023 at 20:31 By Connor Jones Over a week later and barely any patches for the 10/10 vulnerability have been applied Security researchers have confirmed that ransomware criminals are capitalizing on a maximum-severity vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox 02/11/2023 at 19:48 By Richard Speed Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur The Theora video compression codec is finally being put out to pasture as Google pulls it from Chrome and Mozilla mulls the same for Firefox.… This article is