2023

Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites 22/07/2023 at 18:17 By Tobias Mann Web super-biz dreams of lobbing 3,000-plus internet-relay birds into orbit Amazon is building a $120 million facility at the Kennedy Space Center, on Florida’s Cape Canaveral, where it’ll prepare Project Kuiper internet-relaying satellites for launch.… This

Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light 22/07/2023 at 11:45 By Tobias Mann How does more natural gas consumption contribute to Redmond’s eco dream? Unable to secure a steady supply of power from Ireland’s national power grid, Microsoft has elected to build its own power plant to keep its €900 million datacenter

Apple Threatens to Pull iMessage and FaceTime from U.K. Amid Surveillance Demands 22/07/2023 at 09:31 By Apple has warned that it would rather stop offering iMessage and FaceTime services in the U.K. than bowing down to government pressure in response to new proposals that seek to expand digital surveillance powers available to state intelligence agencies.

Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet 22/07/2023 at 03:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Still, judge finds ‘reason to believe’ Feds are getting better at not abusing snooping powers The FBI improperly spied on a US senator, a state senator, and a state-level judge, among others, according to a previously

Myanmar’s government in exile throws support behind launch of crypto-based bank 22/07/2023 at 03:32 By Laura Dobberstein Ousted opposition seeks ways to circumvent military junta and access resources In the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, the exiled government is betting on cryptocurrency to help it overthrow a military junta as it backs the Saturday launch

Fear not, White House chatted to OpenAI and pals, and they promised to make AI safe 22/07/2023 at 03:05 By Katyanna Quach Nice one, Joe, get those non-binding voluntary pledges in early Seven top AI development houses have promised to test their models, share research, and develop methods to watermark machine-generated content in a bid

Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes 22/07/2023 at 02:03 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle How does the Azure giant come back from this? A stolen Microsoft security key may have allowed Beijing-backed spies to break into a lot more than just Outlook and Exchange Online email accounts.…

VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users 22/07/2023 at 00:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle File under PEBCAK VirusTotal today issued a mea cupla, saying a blunder earlier this week by one of its staff exposed information belonging to 5,600 customers, including the email addresses of US Cyber Command, FBI, and NSA employees.… This

US Air Force’s Angry Kitten turns Reaper drone into fierce feline of electronic warfare 21/07/2023 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hardware from a decade ago? More like grumpy old mog The US Air Force is turning to an unlikely place to beef up its electronic warfare countermeasures: a decade-old aircraft-mounted pod known as the “Angry

Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop 21/07/2023 at 22:02 By Liam Proven Coming soon and looking very promising – if you like your models skinny, anyway You can now order the new 16-inch model of the Framework user-repairable – and user-upgradeable – laptop.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Meta can call Llama open source as much as it likes, but that doesn’t mean it is 21/07/2023 at 20:32 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols For Zuck, open source is just another marketing phrase. For developers, it’s the rules of the road Opinion  Meta’s newly released large language model Llama-2 is not open source. Yes, I

NASA’s DART kicked up swarm of 37 boulders after Dimorphos asteroid crash 21/07/2023 at 19:19 By Katyanna Quach Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture ‘some of the faintest things ever imaged inside our solar system’ NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a swarm of 37 boulders that were ejected from the asteroid Dimorphos after the

Azure AD Token Forging Technique in Microsoft Attack Extends Beyond Outlook, Wiz Reports 21/07/2023 at 19:02 By The recent attack against Microsoft’s email infrastructure by a Chinese nation-state actor referred to as Storm-0558 is said to have a broader scope than previously thought. According to cloud security company Wiz, the inactive Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key

HotRat: New Variant of AsyncRAT Malware Spreading Through Pirated Software 21/07/2023 at 19:02 By A new variant of AsyncRAT malware dubbed HotRat is being distributed via free, pirated versions of popular software and utilities such as video games, image and sound editing software, and Microsoft Office. “HotRat malware equips attackers with a wide array of capabilities, such as stealing

FI$Cal names Benson as new Chief of Information Security 21/07/2023 at 18:31 By The Department of Financial Information System for California (FISCal) has hired Jennifer Benson as the new Chief of the Information Security Office. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source