2023

GoldDigger Android trojan targets Vietnamese banking apps, code contains hints of wider targets 06/10/2023 at 04:17 By Laura Dobberstein More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Singapore-based infosec outfit Group-IB on Thursday released details of a new Android trojan that exploits the operating system’s accessibility features to steal info that enables theft

Fujitsu, RIKEN open Japan’s first superconducting quantum ‘puter to eggheads 06/10/2023 at 03:02 By Tobias Mann 64-qubit system paired with 40-qubit simulator to get some sort of accuracy Development of Japan’s first superconducting quantum computer is complete, Fujitsu and the country’s scientific research institute RIKEN announced this week.… This article is an excerpt from The

Acting union calls out Hollywood studios for ‘double standard’ on AI use 06/10/2023 at 02:17 By Katyanna Quach Actors would get sued for violating their IP, why is the opposite not true? TV and film studios should obtain explicit consent from, give credit to, and compensate actors fairly for using their likeness to train generative

EPIC urges watchdog to probe Grindr’s data privacy – or alleged lack thereof 06/10/2023 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Dating app kept sensitive info even after peeps deleted accounts, complaint claims Grindr isn’t doing a very good job protecting its users’ private information, including their NSFW photos, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center

Amazon to launch first Project Kuiper internet satellites 06/10/2023 at 00:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bezos’ Blue Origin not involved this time – now that’s a blue origin It’s been a long time coming, but Amazon is finally launching its first two Project Kuiper internet-relay satellites into orbit tomorrow, October 6, but don’t expect Bezos’ Starlink

Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats 05/10/2023 at 23:47 By Tobias Mann Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power RISC-V’s open source instruction set has attracted a lot of attention over the past few years and not just here on Earth – a team at ETH Zurich in Switzerland

Cisco warns of critical flaw in Emergency Responder code 05/10/2023 at 22:47 By Thomas Claburn Hard-coded credentials strike again Cisco has issued a security advisory about a vulnerability in its Emergency Responder software that would allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to log in to an affected device using the root account.… This article is an

X confuses the masses by removing all details from links 05/10/2023 at 22:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo And in other news, lenders complain Musk needs to go Elon Musk has made good on threats to strip links in Xitter posts of anything but a domain name and image.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

FEMA releases results of wireless emergency alert test 05/10/2023 at 22:01 By The Federal Emergency Management Agency released the results of their national wireless emergency alerts (WEA) and emergency alert system (EAS) test. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Another security update, Apple? You’re really keeping up with your tech rivals 05/10/2023 at 21:32 By Richard Speed Zero day? More like every day, amirite? Apple has demonstrated that it can more than hold its own among the tech giants, at least in terms of finding itself on the wrong end of zero-day vulnerabilities.… This

Improving defense of US space assets isn’t rocket science. Oh wait 05/10/2023 at 20:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Can Booz Allen Hamilton get systems engineered with $630M and 7 years? The US Space Force is doing something about its underdeveloped ability to detect threats with the award of a $630 million contract to Booz Allen Hamilton