January 2024

Open source’s new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before 2024-01-08 at 13:01 By Rupert Goodwins FOSS’s license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way Opinion  Bruce Perens is unhappy. He sees the spirit and potency of FOSS decaying into obsolescence as the big guns […]

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Gaia-X project doesn’t have a future, claims Nextcloud boss 2024-01-08 at 12:16 By Richard Speed How the hyperscalers derailed Europe’s cloud infrastructure train Interview  Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek is blunt about the future of Europe’s Gaia-X project: it doesn’t have one. At least, not in the way many of its founders hoped.… This article is

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Need to plug in an EV? BT Group kicks off cabinet update pilot 2024-01-08 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Old BT green boxes to be repurposed The BT Group has made good on its promise to repurpose street cabinets into EV charge points by kicking off a pilot to demonstrate the concept actually works.… This

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Webinar – Leverage Zero Trust Security to Minimize Your Attack Surface 2024-01-08 at 11:31 By Digital expansion inevitably increases the external attack surface, making you susceptible to cyberthreats. Threat actors increasingly exploit the vulnerabilities stemming from software and infrastructure exposed to the internet; this ironically includes security tools, particularly firewalls and VPNs, which give attackers

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NIST Warns of Security and Privacy Risks from Rapid AI System Deployment 2024-01-08 at 11:31 By The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is calling attention to the privacy and security challenges that arise as a result of increased deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in recent years. “These security and privacy challenges include the

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DoJ Charges 19 Worldwide in $68 Million xDedic Dark Web Marketplace Fraud 2024-01-08 at 08:46 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it charged 19 individuals worldwide in connection with the now-defunct xDedic Marketplace, which is estimated to have facilitated more than $68 million in fraud. In wrapping up its investigation into the dark web portal,

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North Korea’s Cyber Heist: DPRK Hackers Stole $600 Million in Cryptocurrency in 2023 2024-01-08 at 07:16 By Threat actors affiliated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea) have plundered at least $600 million in cryptocurrency in 2023. The DPRK “was responsible for almost a third of all funds stolen in

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Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere 2024-01-07 at 16:46 By Rik Myslewski It’ll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying? Let’s say that you and your political leaders are committed to reducing the effects of the “greenhouse gasses” such as carbon dioxide (CO2)

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Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time 2024-01-06 at 15:31 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Won’t stop the chaos, may lead to attacks with more dire consequences Opinion  A general ban on ransomware payments, as was floated by some this week, sounds like a good idea. Eliminate extortion as a source of criminal income,

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Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed 2024-01-06 at 12:32 By Katyanna Quach An electric airplane on Mars, micrograv hibernation, and plenty others NASA is funding 13 ambitious projects that could potentially lead to space missions one day, ranging from scanning for signs of life on

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Sea Turtle Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Dutch IT and Telecom Companies 2024-01-06 at 10:32 By Telecommunication, media, internet service providers (ISPs), information technology (IT)-service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands have been targeted as part of a new cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Türkiye-nexus threat actor known as Sea Turtle. “The infrastructure of the

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Pro-Iranian Hacker Group Targeting Albania with No-Justice Wiper Malware 2024-01-06 at 09:32 By The recent wave of cyber attacks targeting Albanian organizations involved the use of a wiper called No-Justice. The findings come from cybersecurity company ClearSky, which said the Windows-based malware “crashes the operating system in a way that it cannot be rebooted.” The intrusions have been attributed to

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