January 2024

New iShutdown Method Exposes Hidden Spyware Like Pegasus on Your iPhone 2024-01-17 at 13:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified a “lightweight method” called iShutdown for reliably identifying signs of spyware on Apple iOS devices, including notorious threats like NSO Group’s Pegasus, QuaDream’s Reign, and Intellexa’s Predator.  Kaspersky, which analyzed a set of iPhones that were compromised with Pegasus, said the […]

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BT to spell out contract price hikes in pounds and pence 2024-01-17 at 12:17 By Paul Kunert None of this inflation-linked percentage nonsense, says Ofcom BT is ditching mid-contract price hikes linked to inflation before Britain’s comms regulator issues a blanket ban in pursuit of greater transparency for customers.… This article is an excerpt from

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Home improvement marketers dial up trouble from regulator 2024-01-17 at 11:32 By Paul Kunert ICO slaps penalties on two businesses that collectively made more than 3 million cold calls Another week and yet another couple of pesky cold callers face fines from the UK’s data privacy watchdog for “bombarding” unsuspecting households with marketing messages about

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YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus 2024-01-17 at 10:47 By Thomas Claburn Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters Google claims users of popular ad-blocking extensions have wrongly blamed YouTube for slow video streaming speeds – and that the content filters themselves are the reason for

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GitHub Rotates Keys After High-Severity Vulnerability Exposes Credentials 2024-01-17 at 10:16 By GitHub has revealed that it has rotated some keys in response to a security vulnerability that could be potentially exploited to gain access to credentials within a production container. The Microsoft-owned subsidiary said it was made aware of the problem on December 26,

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What are our top picks from the vast world of retro tech? Let’s find out 2024-01-17 at 09:31 By Iain Thomson Standby to be amazed: Lotus Notes is still being developed Kettle  It’s Retro Tech Week here at The Register, and we’ve got four of our vultures together to talk about old computers and software

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Combination of cheap .cloud domains and fake Shark Tank news fuel unhealthy wellness scams 2024-01-17 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood .SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife Scammers are buying up cheap domain names to host sites that sell dodgy health products using fake articles, according to cybercrime disruption outfit

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Google updates Chrome’s Incognito Mode data slurp disclaimer in early browser build 2024-01-17 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein After settling privacy lawsuit now admits you’re observable even when trying for anonymity Google has altered the text describing data collection when users employ Incognito Mode in its Chrome browser.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Security’s Year in Review – 2023 2024-01-17 at 07:16 By In this edition of Security’s Year in Review from Security magazine, we showcase the top stories and new developments from across the security industry throughout 2023.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Citrix, VMware, and Atlassian Hit with Critical Flaws — Patch ASAP! 2024-01-17 at 07:01 By Citrix is warning of two zero-day security vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that are being actively exploited in the wild. The flaws are listed below – CVE-2023-6548 (CVSS score: 5.5) – Authenticated

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Working from home never looked better: leopard stalks around Infosys and TCS campuses 2024-01-17 at 06:36 By Simon Sharwood No consultants were mauled or eaten but some were quite scared Indian forestry authorities have laid traps for a leopard that was spotted prowling near campuses used by tech services giants Infosys and TCS.… This article

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Nokia walks the walk about its RAN to play on Uncle Sam’s China fears 2024-01-17 at 05:17 By Tobias Mann It pays not to be Huawei, and the US military can be lucrative, too Comment  A vendor establishing a business unit dedicated to government sales is not new or unusual. But Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia’s

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