2023

Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China’s IP theft program now at ‘unprecedented’ levels 18/10/2023 at 13:06 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Spies come in from the cold for their first public chinwag Intelligence chiefs of the Five Eyes alliance today warned that Chinese government spies stealing IP and other sensitive data from private companies pose an

TetrisPhantom: Cyber Espionage via Secure USBs Targets APAC Governments 18/10/2023 at 12:32 By Government entities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are the target of a long-running cyber espionage campaign dubbed TetrisPhantom. “The attacker covertly spied on and harvested sensitive data from APAC government entities by exploiting a particular type of secure USB drive, protected by hardware

Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren’t bad enough 18/10/2023 at 12:18 By Connor Jones Researchers say ransomware could be on the horizon if success continues An uptick in cybercriminals masking malicious downloads as fake browser updates is being spotted by security researchers.… This article is an excerpt

Buyer’s remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases 18/10/2023 at 11:33 By Paul Kunert They never do tell you about the unexpected costs and overly complex implementations Three in every five software purchases are regretted by IT departments for a variety of reasons, including unforeseen costs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Ampere leads a pack of AI startups to challenge Nvidia’s ‘unsustainable’ GPUs 18/10/2023 at 10:34 By Tobias Mann AI Platform Alliance probably has Jensen Huang in tears…of laughter History is full of examples of smaller players coming together to take on larger competitors. With the launch of the AI Platform Alliance this week, Arm CPU

New Admin Takeover Vulnerability Exposed in Synology’s DiskStation Manager 18/10/2023 at 10:33 By A medium-severity flaw has been discovered in Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) that could be exploited to decipher an administrator’s password and remotely hijack the account. “Under some rare conditions, an attacker could leak enough information to restore the seed of the pseudorandom

Atlassian users complain of cloud migration dead ends, especially in UK 18/10/2023 at 09:49 By Simon Sharwood Lack of local clouds and inflexible offers see users depart. Maybe the new ‘Compass’ developer experience tool will be more to their liking The Register’s Monday story about Atlassian’s looming end-of-support deadline for its on-prem server products has

Sony, Honda, tease EV that aims to be a loungeroom on wheels 18/10/2023 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein ‘Afeela’ packs Qualcomm kit, screens galore, runs Android and will have an app ecosystem Video  Sony and Honda have unveiled Afeela – a software-defined vehicle the two present as a Qualcomm-powered entertainment system on wheels. Or you

Apple finds another use for USB-C – a cheaper Pencil 18/10/2023 at 07:34 By Simon Sharwood It’s also shorter, lousy under pressure, and needs a dongle Apple has found another reason to embrace USB-C – it’s allowed the iCompany to make a cheaper digital pencil.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

D-Link Confirms Data Breach: Employee Falls Victim to Phishing Attack 18/10/2023 at 07:16 By Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has confirmed a data breach that led to the exposure of what it said is “low-sensitivity and semi-public information.” “The data was confirmed not from the cloud but likely originated from an old D-View 6 system,