May 2024

Thanks for the memory, South Korea tells nation’s chip makers – now build processors 2024-05-24 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood President warns of ‘all-out national warfare’ around silicon as he announces $19B development package South Korea’s president has described the global semiconductor industry as “a field where all-out national warfare is underway” as he announced

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China reveals space weather radar it claims represents a breakthrough 2024-05-24 at 05:01 By Laura Dobberstein Might share tech and data with the world sometime … maybe China says it has created its own radar technology to help it forecast space weather, and claimed it made breakthroughs along the way.… This article is an excerpt

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Three-year-old Apache Flink flaw now under active attack 2024-05-24 at 04:04 By Jessica Lyons We know IT admins have busy schedules but c’mon An improper access control bug in Apache Flink that was fixed in January 2021 has been added to the US government’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, meaning criminals are right now abusing the

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iFixit divorces Samsung over lack of real commitment to self-repair program 2024-05-24 at 03:01 By Matthew Connatser CEO tells El Reg the phone titan’s ‘refusal to be completely candid with us was a major factor’ iFixit and Samsung are breaking up, ending efforts to provide better tools, parts, and resources for DIY repairs that began

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Korea’s SKC gets $75M in CHIPS change for US-based glass substrate plant 2024-05-24 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Set up as a gamble, the Absolics subsidiary has just paid off The CEO of South Korean chemical firm SKC made a big bet on the US CHIPS Act when he decided to grow his manufacturing site

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Here’s yet more ransomware using BitLocker against Microsoft’s own users 2024-05-24 at 00:31 By Jessica Lyons ShrinkLocker throws steel and vaccine makers into the hurt locker Yet more ransomware is using Microsoft BitLocker to encrypt corporate files, steal the decryption key, and then extort a payment from victim organizations, according to Kaspersky.… This article is

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Microsoft’s deal with UAE’s G42 gives US politicos the fear 2024-05-24 at 00:01 By Matthew Connatser Uncle Sam just might want to have a word about key technology exports Microsoft may end up exporting advanced computer processors, AI model weights, and other key technologies to the Middle East and beyond via the Windows giant’s cozy

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Casino cyberattacks put a bullseye on Scattered Spider – and the FBI is closing in 2024-05-23 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Clock is ticking to it’s time for the handcuffs, we’re told Interview  The cyberattacks against Las Vegas casinos over the summer put a big target on the backs of Scattered Spider, the suspected perps,

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Uncle Sam’s had enough of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, sues to end monopoly 2024-05-23 at 22:31 By Thomas Claburn Music to everyone’s ears The US Department of Justice, in the company of 30 state and district attorneys general, filed a civil antitrust complaint against Live Nation Entertainment and its Ticketmaster subsidiary today, claiming the entertainment

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Google guru roasts useless phishing tests, calls for fire drill-style overhaul 2024-05-23 at 22:16 By Connor Jones Current approaches aren’t working and demonize security teams A Google security bigwig has had enough of federally mandated phishing tests, saying they make colleagues hate IT teams for no added benefit.… This article is an excerpt from The

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US Space Force says it needs more practice at responding to orbital emergencies 2024-05-23 at 21:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo But still just once a year because this stuff is expensive. Hopefully that’s enough In the military world, preparation is everything. That’s why the US Space Force is planning to up its tactical response launch practice

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Microsoft gives Windows admins a break and MFA a hard push 2024-05-23 at 20:46 By Richard Speed Updates now optional, but Azure security is not Microsoft has given administrators additional flexibility in managing Windows updates and clarified what it meant by stating: “Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users.”… This article is an excerpt

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Ransomware Attacks Exploit VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities in Alarming Pattern 2024-05-23 at 20:46 By Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi infrastructure following an established pattern regardless of the file-encrypting malware deployed. “Virtualization platforms are a core component of organizational IT infrastructure, yet they often suffer from inherent misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, making them a lucrative and highly effective target for

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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apache Flink Security Vulnerability 2024-05-23 at 20:46 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, the open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2020-17519, the issue relates to a case of

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Arm servers are on Nutanix’s long-range radar, not yet its to-do list 2024-05-23 at 20:01 By Simon Sharwood CTO waiting for major OEMs to get on board, but when/if that happens it’ll be game on … perhaps for AI Next  Nutanix is contemplating the day when it ports some of its wares to the Arm

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ESA to fetch stuff from space before ISS takes the plunge 2024-05-23 at 19:16 By Richard Speed Thales Alenia Space and The Exploration Company tapped for retrieval ops The European Space Agency has signed contracts with two European companies in a bid to get cargo back from the International Space Station (ISS) – hopefully before

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