January 2024

KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD 2024-01-15 at 12:17 By Liam Proven New versions and ports of the Plasma desktop ahoy The KDE dev team has spent many nights working on the first release candidate of the new Qt 6-based release, during which time a tiny, intrepid band of

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The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128 2024-01-15 at 11:33 By Rupert Goodwins If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people Opinion  Following an unlikely series of events involving British Telecom, Prince Philip and a VTX-5000 modem, your teenage protagonist found himself at a drunken dinner party in

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High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Bosch Thermostats and Smart Nutrunners 2024-01-15 at 11:02 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Bosch BCC100 thermostats and Rexroth NXA015S-36V-B smart nutrunners that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered the flaw in Bosch BCC100 thermostats last August, said

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Balada Injector Infects Over 7,100 WordPress Sites Using Plugin Vulnerability 2024-01-15 at 11:02 By Thousands of WordPress sites using a vulnerable version of the Popup Builder plugin have been compromised with a malware called Balada Injector. First documented by Doctor Web in January 2023, the campaign takes place in a series of periodic attack waves, weaponizing security flaws

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Infosys co-founder doubles down on call for 70-hour work weeks 2024-01-15 at 10:17 By Laura Dobberstein It’s not like Gandhi ever saw his kids, says Narayana Murthy Indian billionaire and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has doubled down on his comments that India’s youth should voluntarily work 70-hour weeks.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain 2024-01-15 at 08:36 By Simon Sharwood Net-taming firm lets staff go if they’re bad at ‘measurable performance targets’ or aren’t ‘right for the team’, which seems a tad contradictory Cloudflare has defended its HR practices after a former employee posted a nine-minute video of

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DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023 2024-01-15 at 08:36 By The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare said

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Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms 2024-01-15 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run. Linus Torvalds has indefinitely postponed the merge window for version 6.8 of the Linux kernel after a winter storm knocked out power and

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The intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence 2024-01-15 at 07:16 By Artificial intelligence (AI) is a valuable cybersecurity asset, but it’s not a silver bullet. To best leverage AI, we must consider the security teams of the future. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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China loathes AirDrop so much it’s publicized an old flaw in Apple’s P2P protocol 2024-01-15 at 05:03 By Simon Sharwood Infosec academic suggests Beijing’s warning that iThing owners aren’t anonymous deserves attention outside the great firewall, too In June 2023 China made a typically bombastic announcement: operators of short-distance ad hoc networks must ensure they

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New Findings Challenge Attribution in Denmark’s Energy Sector Cyberattacks 2024-01-14 at 11:46 By The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group, new findings from Forescout show. The intrusions, which targeted around 22 Danish energy organizations in May 2023, occurred in two distinct waves, one

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NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane 2024-01-13 at 16:17 By Thomas Claburn Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There’s no room for the sonic boom NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft made its public debut on Friday in a media event at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, where the plane

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