January 2024

Hubble telescope spots tiniest water-rich world in orbit 2024-01-27 at 10:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Don’t pack your swimming costumes as it could be more of a sauna planet Not to be outdone by the younger, hipper equipment in NASA’s arsenal, the Hubble Space Telescope is still proving its worth, spotting evidence of water vapor in […]

AllaKore RAT Malware Targeting Mexican Firms with Financial Fraud Tricks 2024-01-27 at 09:47 By Mexican financial institutions are under the radar of a new spear-phishing campaign that delivers a modified version of an open-source remote access trojan called AllaKore RAT. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team attributed the activity to an unknown Latin American-based financially motivated

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe 2024-01-27 at 04:48 By Thomas Claburn At least web competition will finally be allowed Analysis  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. But he failed to let that metaphor shape his greatest achievement, the iPhone, which has become a shackle for

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe 2024-01-27 at 04:02 By Thomas Claburn At least web competition will finally be allowed Analysis  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. But he failed to let that metaphor shape his greatest achievement, the iPhone, which has become a shackle for

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage 2024-01-27 at 03:01 By Tobias Mann Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem Corporate communications ground to a halt for many Office 365 subscribers around the world on Friday after a

Microsoft sheds some light on Russian email heist – and how to learn from Redmond’s mistakes 2024-01-27 at 02:46 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Step one, actually turn on MFA Microsoft, a week after disclosing that Kremlin-backed spies broke into its network and stole internal emails and files from its executives and staff, has now confirmed

FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to study ‘nudity, weapons, explosives’ 2024-01-27 at 01:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Honestly, it sounds like a fun time The FBI plans to use Amazon’s controversial Rekognition cloud service “to extract information and insights from lawfully acquired images and videos,” according to US Justice Department documents.… This article is an

20,000-plus tech workers got the boot this month 2024-01-27 at 00:32 By Paul Kunert Microsoft and Salesforce the latest to toss more folks onto industry’s employment bonfire More than 20,000 people working in tech lost their job in January, continuing the 2023 trend when 250,000+ were ditched after companies hired heavily in the pandemic and

20,000 tech workers get the layoff memo in January 2024-01-27 at 00:01 By Paul Kunert Microsoft and Salesforce the latest to toss more pink slips onto industry’s employment bonfire More than 20,000 people working in tech lost their job in January, continuing the 2023 trend when 250,000+ were ditched after companies hired heavily in the

Wait, security courses aren’t a requirement to graduate with a computer science degree? 2024-01-26 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle And software makers seem to be OK with this, apparently There’s a line in the latest plea from CISA – the US government’s cybersecurity agency – to software developers to do a better job of

As NSA buys up Americans’ browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to knock it off 2024-01-26 at 23:02 By Thomas Claburn If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be great US Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday asked US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to stop US

Data Privacy Day 2024: Security leaders share AI concerns 2024-01-26 at 22:03 By With the ever-changing threat landscape, Data Privacy Day looks a little different each year as technology such as artificial intelligence develops. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

What is Model Collapse and how to avoid it 2024-01-26 at 20:16 By Thomas Claburn An interview with Ilia Shumailov AI Software Week  What happens to machine learning models when they feed on themselves, when the data they ingest comes more and more from other generative models rather than human authors?… This article is an

Microsoft unveils a secret tunnel for Windows Insiders who want out 2024-01-26 at 19:17 By Richard Speed Beta Channel Insiders can return to retail Windows 11 23H2 with click of a toggle Liberation beckons for Microsoft’s Beta Channel Windows Insiders thanks to an optional installation of Windows 11 23H2 for users who wish to opt

40% of litigators say data privacy disputes increased in 2023 2024-01-26 at 18:47 By Growing cybersecurity and data privacy concerns have influenced recent litigation, according to a recent survey by Norton Rose Fulbright. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Guess the company: Takes your DNA, blames you when criminals steal it, can’t spot a cyberattack for 5 months 2024-01-26 at 18:19 By Connor Jones Breach filings show Reddit post led to the discovery rather than any sophisticated cyber defenses Biotech and DNA-collection biz 23andMe, the one that blamed its own customers for the October

FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power 2024-01-26 at 17:03 By Katyanna Quach Startups hoping to compete in the industry face an uphill battle Panel  The dominance of big tech in cloud computing, coupled with a shortage of chips, is preventing smaller AI software and hardware startups from competing fairly, according to panelists

Technology truly is the gift that keeps on giving … SNAFUs to highlight 2024-01-26 at 16:16 By Iain Thomson Until we can hook schadenfreude directly into our veins, this will have to do Kettle  What was your favorite tech failure this week? You may well agree with our vultures who for this latest Kettle episode