April 2024

Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users 2024-04-24 at 12:46 By Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in eight of nine apps from vendors like Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, […]

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CISO Perspectives on Complying with Cybersecurity Regulations 2024-04-24 at 12:46 By Compliance requirements are meant to increase cybersecurity transparency and accountability. As cyber threats increase, so do the number of compliance frameworks and the specificity of the security controls, policies, and activities they include. For CISOs and their teams, that means compliance is a time-consuming, high-stakes process

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Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod 2024-04-24 at 11:32 By Lindsay Clark Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database

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If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2024-04-24 at 10:46 By Thomas Claburn One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Exclusive  At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers

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eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners 2024-04-24 at 10:46 By A new malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus software to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners like XMRig through a long-standing threat codenamed GuptiMiner targeting large corporate networks. Cybersecurity firm Avast said the activity is the

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Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app 2024-04-24 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein You read that right – it’s a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) – which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant – is reportedly involved in an IP

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China’s mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers 2024-04-24 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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CoralRaider Malware Campaign Exploits CDN Cache to Spread Info-Stealers 2024-04-24 at 08:46 By A new ongoing malware campaign has been observed distributing three different stealers, such as CryptBot, LummaC2, and Rhadamanthys hosted on Content Delivery Network (CDN) cache domains since at least February 2024. Cisco Talos has attributed the activity with moderate confidence to a threat actor tracked as CoralRaider, a suspected Vietnamese-origin

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US Senate passes law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok stateside 2024-04-24 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood Clock starts tick-tocking towards January 2025 deadline to get a deal done – or the app could disappear The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to offload the app to a US-based buyer,

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