August 2024

Raspberry Pi 5 slims down for cut-price 2 GB RAM version 2024-08-19 at 11:01 By Richard Speed Nobody really needs more than that, right? Almost a year after Raspberry Pi 5 debuted, a cheaper 2 GB version has appeared for users that want to save a little cash or for whom 4 or 8 GB

Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by North Korea’s Lazarus Group 2024-08-19 at 10:16 By A newly patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows was exploited as a zero-day by Lazarus Group, a prolific state-sponsored actor affiliated with North Korea. The security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a privilege escalation bug

Japan’s Astroscale gets contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm 2024-08-19 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein $81 million to retrieve H-IIA rocket – and prove it’s possible Japanese space debris cleaning outfit Astroscale revealed on Monday that it will enter a ¥12 billion ($81.4 million) five-year contract with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to remove

Researchers Uncover New Infrastructure Tied to FIN7 Cybercrime Group 2024-08-19 at 09:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered new infrastructure linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7. The two clusters of potential FIN7 activity “indicate communications inbound to FIN7 infrastructure from IP addresses assigned to Post Ltd (Russia) and SmartApe (Estonia), respectively,” Team

The future of security and access control for office spaces 2024-08-19 at 07:01 By Security talks with Andrew Campagnola about emerging threats in office building security and how security leaders can address these concerns.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

RansomHub-linked EDR-killing malware spotted in the wild 2024-08-19 at 05:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also: Your external-facing NetSuite sites need a review; five popular malware varieties for Q2, and more in brief  Malware that kills endpoint detection and response (EDR) software has been spotted on the scene and, given it’s deploying RansomHub, it could soon be

Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home 2024-08-18 at 20:46 By Tobias Mann Here’s how to get started with the open source tool Continue Hands-on  Code assistants have gained considerable attention as an early use case for generative AI – especially following the launch of Microsoft’s GitHub

Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2 2024-08-17 at 12:31 By Richard Speed Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy Purveyor of optics Beaverlab has unveiled its an inexpensive telescope for wannabe star-gazers: the Finder TW2.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store 2024-08-17 at 10:16 By Thomas Claburn But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue Epic Games, booted from Apple’s walled garden four years ago for crimes against App Store policy, has built its