April 2024

404 Day celebrates the internet’s most infamous no-show 2024-04-05 at 13:46 By Richard Speed Nothing is forever, not even a web page Forget chocolate eggs, the only event that really mattered this week was 404 Day.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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From PDFs to Payload: Bogus Adobe Acrobat Reader Installers Distribute Byakugan Malware 2024-04-05 at 13:32 By Bogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to distribute a new multi-functional malware dubbed Byakugan. The starting point of the attack is a PDF file written in Portuguese that, when opened, shows a blurred image and asks the victim to

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Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers 2024-04-05 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark Even when tech crew gets the tweaks approved, vendor lead times are bonkers, says report UK councils might spend £8 billion ($10.1 billion) on tech each year, yet some find that suppliers don’t have the wares they need

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Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU’s antitrust chief 2024-04-05 at 11:31 By Paul Kunert All sorts of levers being pulled to lure AI developers from here, there, everywhere Amid the scramble to hire developer talent in the field of AI, regulators in the European Union are expressing interest in recent events that saw

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New Wave of JSOutProx Malware Targeting Financial Firms in APAC and MENA 2024-04-05 at 11:31 By Financial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are being targeted by a new version of an “evolving threat” called JSOutProx. “JSOutProx is a sophisticated attack framework utilizing both JavaScript and .NET,” Resecurity said in a technical

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Researchers Identify Multiple China Hacker Groups Exploiting Ivanti Security Flaws 2024-04-05 at 11:31 By Multiple China-nexus threat actors have been linked to the zero-day exploitation of three security flaws impacting Ivanti appliances (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887, and CVE-2024-21893). The clusters are being tracked by Mandiant under the monikers UNC5221, UNC5266, UNC5291, UNC5325, UNC5330, and UNC5337. Another group linked to

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Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, too 2024-04-05 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn Algorithms as PHBs – who wouldn’t want that? Nearly half of US office workers expressed concern that AI might take their jobs in a February survey by investment banking biz Jefferies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Academics probe Apple’s privacy settings and get lost and confused 2024-04-05 at 08:47 By Matthew Connatser Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus A study has concluded that Apple’s privacy practices aren’t particularly effective, because default apps on the iPhone and Mac have limited privacy settings and confusing configuration options.… This article is an

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Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 2024-04-05 at 08:19 By Simon Sharwood Today’s lesson covers the potential for Loongson’s made-in-China architecture to hurt Microsoft and Intel China’s long march towards creation and adoption of its own information technology stack has taken a long stride forward after a school district commenced a trial of

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