February 2024

NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion 2024-02-13 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer ‘agile and flexible’ approach The NHS in Wales has decided to send up to £450 million ($568 million) of taxpayers’ hard-earned cash into the bank […]

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Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn’t its problem to solve 2024-02-13 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Leaves it to carriers, promoting a complaint to Irish data cops from Big Tech’s bête noire Meta has acknowledged that phone number reuse that allows takeovers of its accounts “is a concern,” but the

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Venus has a quasi-moon and it’s just been named ‘Zoozve’ for a sweet reason 2024-02-13 at 10:02 By Simon Sharwood The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group (WGSBN) – the folks responsible for assigning names to minor planets and comets – last week

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Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments 2024-02-13 at 09:47 By Thomas Claburn I’d buy that for a $0.00000001 The team behind Chromium – the open source engine of Google Chrome and other browsers – has begun working on a way to enable those surfing the web to pay for the stuff they read

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Ivanti Vulnerability Exploited to Install ‘DSLog’ Backdoor on 670+ IT Infrastructures 2024-02-13 at 09:16 By Threat actors are leveraging a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateways to deploy a backdoor codenamed DSLog on susceptible devices. That’s according to findings from Orange Cyberdefense, which said it observed the exploitation of CVE-2024-21893 within hours

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Infosys subsidiary named as source of Bank of America data leak 2024-02-13 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Looks like LockBit took a swipe at an outsourced life insurance application Indian tech services giant Infosys has been named as the source of a data leak suffered by the Bank of America.… This article is an excerpt

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Alert: CISA Warns of Active ‘Roundcube’ Email Attacks – Patch Now 2024-02-13 at 07:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Roundcube email software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-43770 (CVSS score: 6.1), relates to a cross-site

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Broadcom terminates VMware’s free ESXi hypervisor 2024-02-13 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood Certain licenses still allow tinkerers to taste the vStack. Whether they want to is another matter Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool 2024-02-13 at 04:01 By Jessica Lyons Great news for victims of gang that hit the British Library in October Some smart folks have found a way to automatically unscramble documents encrypted by the Rhysida ransomware, and used that know-how to produce and release a handy

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Thar be safe harbor: Reddit defeats third attempt to unmask digital pirates 2024-02-13 at 02:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo First Amendment is a rule, not a guideline, says judge Digital pirates dropping anchor on Reddit for a bit o’ parley can consider themselves harbored in relatively safe waters, as US courts have decided for a third

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Quarter of polled Americans say they use AI to make them hotter in online dating 2024-02-13 at 01:47 By Katyanna Quach Roses are red, violets are blue, a machine made my page alluring to you Almost a quarter of US singles polled by antivirus slinger McAfee said they are using generative AI to smarten up

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Quarter of polled Americans say they use AI to make them hotter in online dating 2024-02-13 at 01:16 By Katyanna Quach Roses are red, violets are blue, a machine made my page alluring to you Almost a quarter of US folks polled by antivirus slinger McAfee said they are using generative AI to smarten up

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Nvidia reckons this itty-bitty workstation GPU won’t run up your power bill 2024-02-13 at 00:01 By Tobias Mann Pulls off RTX 2000 Ada’s mask, gasp – it’s you, RTX 4060 Nvidia expanded its GPU portfolio Monday with an itsy-bitsy workstation card it claims delivers a sizable uplift in performance while just sipping power, relatively speaking.…

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