April 2024

Ex-Security Engineer Jailed 3 Years for $12.3 Million Crypto Exchange Thefts 2024-04-13 at 17:46 By A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of

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U.S. Treasury Hamas Spokesperson for Cyber Influence Operations 2024-04-13 at 17:46 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions against an official associated with Hamas for his involvement in cyber influence operations. Hudhayfa Samir ‘Abdallah al-Kahlut, 39, also known as Abu Ubaida, has served as the public spokesperson

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China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027 2024-04-13 at 16:16 By Tobias Mann There’s no Huawei we saw that coming Years after Uncle Sam ordered US telecommunications providers to rip and replace Huawei kit from their networks, Beijing is telling telcos in China to strip out American-made

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75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn’t say productively 2024-04-13 at 13:46 By Lindsay Clark Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns Global tech research company Gartner estimates that by 2028, 75 percent of enterprise software engineers will use AI code assistants, up from less than

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Hackers Deploy Python Backdoor in Palo Alto Zero-Day Attack 2024-04-13 at 12:31 By Threat actors have been exploiting the newly disclosed zero-day flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software dating back to March 26, 2024, nearly three weeks before it came to light yesterday. The network security company’s Unit 42 division is tracking the activity under the

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Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs 2024-04-13 at 10:46 By Matthew Connatser Slow but bona fide made in China Loongson’s current-generation 3A6000 processor, one of the fastest designed and made in China for consumers, is now available in a line of mini PCs.… This article is

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Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips made for China 2024-04-13 at 02:31 By Matthew Connatser Crippled silicon for the Middle Kingdom Intel is set to launch two China-exclusive models of its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, and they’ll be substantially crippled to fit in with US sanctions.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect gateways 2024-04-13 at 01:46 By Thomas Claburn Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued a critical alert for an under-attack vulnerability in the PAN-OS software used in its firewall-slash-VPN products.… This article is

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