April 2024

UK data watchdog questions how private Google’s Privacy Sandbox is 2024-04-22 at 14:17 By Thomas Claburn Leaked draft report says stated goals still come up short Google’s Privacy Sandbox, which aspires to provide privacy-preserving ad targeting and analytics, still isn’t sufficiently private.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Ransomware Double-Dip: Re-Victimization in Cyber Extortion 2024-04-22 at 14:01 By Between crossovers – Do threat actors play dirty or desperate? In our dataset of over 11,000 victim organizations that have experienced a Cyber Extortion / Ransomware attack, we noticed that some victims re-occur. Consequently, the question arises why we observe a re-victimization and whether or

FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch 2024-04-22 at 13:31 By Richard Speed Commercial operators must try Varda The US Federal Aviation Administration is updating its launch license requirements: if you’re launching something designed for reentry, you’ll need a license for that, too. Before you launch.… This article is an excerpt from

IT consultant-cum-developer in court over hiding COVID loan 2024-04-22 at 12:46 By Paul Kunert Syzmon Jastrzebski wrongly borrowed $126k, money written off as he’s left the country UK government is kissing goodbye to the £100,000 an IT consultant-cum-software developer wrongly secured under the Bounce Back Loans scheme that was created during the pandemic to financially

Researchers Uncover Windows Flaws Granting Hackers Rootkit-Like Powers 2024-04-22 at 12:46 By New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes. “When a user executes a function that has a path argument in Windows, the DOS

Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam 2024-04-22 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins What if it’s not AI but the algorithm to blame? Opinion  It was a bold claim by the richest and most famous tech founder: bold, precise and wrong. Laughably so. Twenty years ago, Bill Gates promised to rid the world

Microsoft Warns: North Korean Hackers Turn to AI-Fueled Cyber Espionage 2024-04-22 at 10:31 By Microsoft has revealed that North Korea-linked state-sponsored cyber actors has begun to use artificial intelligence (AI) to make its operations more effective and efficient. “They are learning to use tools powered by AI large language models (LLM) to make their operations

Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines 2024-04-22 at 10:02 By Laura Dobberstein For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations Microsoft has bragged that its own Azure HPC service was able to reduce the length of its Surface laptop design process – most notably for

Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU 2024-04-22 at 09:18 By Simon Sharwood The processor that gave the world the ZX Spectrum and so much more is out of wafers Production of some models of Z80 processor – the chip that helped spark the PC boom of the 1980s – will cease