January 2024

New Bandook RAT Variant Resurfaces, Targeting Windows Machines 2024-01-05 at 08:31 By A new variant of remote access trojan called Bandook has been observed being propagated via phishing attacks with an aim to infiltrate Windows machines, underscoring the continuous evolution of the malware. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which identified the activity in October 2023, said the malware is […]

Court orders arbitration for Wipro and ex-CFO who left for Cognizant 2024-01-05 at 04:31 By Laura Dobberstein India’s IT outsourcers have an exec poaching problem A Bengaluru civil court has ordered Indian IT outsourcer Wipro to go into arbitration with its former CFO, Jatin Dalal, over accusations the latter violated a non-compete clause by joining

Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week 2024-01-05 at 03:02 By Thomas Claburn Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details OpenAI’s GPT Store, a one-stop shop for customized chatbot models, is expected to start business next week, after missing its planned debut last month amid boardroom turmoil at the startup.… This article

Microchip nabs $162M to keep chips for washing machines – and missiles – flowing 2024-01-05 at 02:03 By Tobias Mann Uncle Sam: Nothing goes together quite like a well-pressed uniform and weapons of mass destruction Microchip will receive $162 million of US CHIPS and Science Act funding to bolster domestic production of microcontrollers used in

AMD talks up car chips it hopes will join you for a ride some time soon 2024-01-05 at 01:02 By Tobias Mann ‘New’ ADAS and infotainment parts powered by older FPGAs and earlier cores. It’s good enough for Tesla +Comment  Just in time for CES, which has become just as much a car show as

DARPA’s air-steered X-65 jet heads into production with goal of flying by 2025 2024-01-05 at 00:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Moving parts on a plane? What is this, Kitty Hawk? The latest experimental DARPA aircraft, which is designed to maneuver without the need for moving parts, is headed to the manufacturing stage and could be flying

Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB 2024-01-04 at 23:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Search giant told yet again that contractors still employees, must be bargained with The US National Labor Relations Board has decided that Google’s contractors are still its employees, thus Google is violating US labor laws by refusing to bargain

AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers 2024-01-04 at 23:04 By Thomas Claburn Hallucinated programming flaws vex curl project Generative AI models like Google Bard and GitHub Copilot have a user problem: Those who rely on software assistance may not understand or care about the limitations of these machine learning tools.… This article is

X marks the spot: Mandiant restores hijacked Twitter account after attempted crypto heist 2024-01-04 at 22:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Miscreants mock Google-owned security house: ‘Change password please’ Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant’s Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop, telling its

Victoria court records exposed following cyberattack 2024-01-04 at 22:02 By In December 2023, Court Services Victoria was alerted to a cybersecurity incident impacting Victoria’s courts and tribunals, including recordings. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Former Adobe software engineering leader convicted of insider trading 2024-01-04 at 21:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo Another Silicon Valley Icarus flies too close to the Sun A former Adobe software engineer was this week sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an insider trading scheme that earned him millions before the feds caught

Infosec experts divided over 23andMe’s ‘victim-blaming’ stance on data breach 2024-01-04 at 20:33 By Connor Jones Users apparently at fault after reusing credentials the company didn’t check were already compromised 23andMe users’ godawful password practices were supposedly to blame for the biotech company’s October data disaster, according to its legal reps.… This article is an

RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth 2024-01-04 at 19:46 By Liam Proven Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89 Obit  Swiss computer scientist Professor Niklaus Wirth died on New Year’s Day, roughly six weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday.… This article

What if Microsoft had given us Windows XP 2024? 2024-01-04 at 19:03 By Richard Speed Modern life is rubbish. What if your favorite tech giant had stopped trying to reinvent the wheel? A brave hero has given us a glimpse at an alternative universe, where Microsoft evolved the Windows XP design language. And isn’t that

HPE’s Hotard hits the hot seat at Intel’s datacenter and AI biz 2024-01-04 at 18:31 By Dan Robinson Outsider brought in to rule crucial unit will play key part in AI strategy Intel has hired Justin Hotard to head up its Data Center and AI (DCAI) Group, poaching the exec from HPE where he lead