2023

Beijing’s silent treatment topples Tower Semiconductor merger with Intel 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By Dan Robinson Termination fee of $353 million wipes out Intel Foundry Services’ revenue for last quarter Intel’s planned $5.4 billion buy of Israeli chip biz Tower Semiconductor has fallen through after the vendor failed to get regulatory approval from China within the […]

What’s the State of Credential theft in 2023? 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By At a little overt halfway through 2023, credential theft is still a major thorn in the side of IT teams. The heart of the problem is the value of data to cybercriminals and the evolution of the techniques they use to get hold

Experts Uncover Weaknesses in PowerShell Gallery Enabling Supply Chain Attacks 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By Active flaws in the PowerShell Gallery could be weaponized by threat actors to pull off supply chain attacks against the registry’s users. “These flaws make typosquatting attacks inevitable in this registry, while also making it extremely difficult for users to identify

Guide: How Google Workspace-based Organizations can leverage Chrome to improve Security 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By More and more organizations are choosing Google Workspace as their default employee toolset of choice. But despite the productivity advantages, this organizational action also incurs a new security debt. Security teams now have to find a way to adjust their

Google Introduces First Quantum Resilient FIDO2 Security Key 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By Google on Tuesday announced the first quantum resilient FIDO2 security key implementation as part of its OpenSK security keys initiative. “This open-source hardware optimized implementation uses a novel ECC/Dilithium hybrid signature schema that benefits from the security of ECC against standard attacks and

Critical Security Flaws Affect Ivanti Avalanche, Threatening 30,000 Organizations 16/08/2023 at 14:04 By Multiple critical security flaws have been reported in Ivanti Avalanche, an enterprise mobile device management solution that’s used by 30,000 organizations. The vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as CVE-2023-32560 (CVSS score: 9.8), are stack-based buffer overflows in Ivanti Avalanche WLAvanacheServer.exe v6.4.0.0. Cybersecurity company Tenable said the shortcomings are the

OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is 16/08/2023 at 13:36 By Liam Proven A menu-driven, snapshot-enabled bootloader for Linux with root on ZFS The next minor version of OpenZFS is nearly ready, and ZFSBootMenu makes it easy to boot Linux from it, via a clever workaround.… This article is an excerpt from

Why securing East-West network traffic is so important – and how it can be done 16/08/2023 at 12:34 By Bruce Davie You don’t want to hand your datacenter over to an intruder quite so easily Systems Approach  One of the fun things about being an Australian living in the Northern hemisphere (which was my situation

Lost voices, ignored words: Apple’s speech recognition needs urgent reform 16/08/2023 at 11:52 By Colin Hughes A plea for improvements for disabled people who rely on accessibility features Opinion  As someone who relies on Apple’s Voice Control application to dictate, navigate, and interact with my iPhone and Mac via my voice due to a severe

Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people 16/08/2023 at 10:39 By Thomas Claburn Taming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated When humans head off to colonize the Red Planet, it’s not entirely clear how many colonists will be needed to keep everyone alive.… This article

Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for ‘free’ cash – or any cash al all 16/08/2023 at 10:04 By Simon Sharwood Reports police called to control ATM frenzy after €1,000 added to accounts, by leprechauns maybe Queues have formed at automatic teller machines in Ireland after a local bank allowed withdrawals of sums greater

Bad software destroyed my doctor’s memory 16/08/2023 at 09:32 By Mark Pesce Design this bad should sicken developers – but it’s the rest of us who end up feeling queasy Column  “I have a problem,” my medical specialist said – before he saw the fear on my face and quickly corrected himself. “No, not with