September 2024

Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure 2024-09-18 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of ’em Microsoft is joining with BlackRock and other private equity investors in a new AI fund that aims to eventually raise $100 billion for […]

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Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform 2024-09-18 at 15:31 By Connor Jones Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Hours after confirming they had pwned the supposedly uncrackable encrypted messaging platform used for all manner of organized crime, Ghost, cops have now named the

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Claims of hacked voter data aims to cause distrust in elections 2024-09-18 at 15:16 By Claims of hacked voter data are intended to cause distrust in the election process, the FBI and CISA warn.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By Thomas Claburn AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot’s work The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have

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Why Pay A Pentester? 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to today, would we have imagined just

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UK pensions department’s project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B 2024-09-18 at 14:16 By Lindsay Clark Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a £958.7 million ($1.2 billion) search for a supplier to develop business processes for new ERP and HR

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North Korean Hackers Target Energy and Aerospace Industries with New MISTPEN Malware 2024-09-18 at 14:01 By A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN. The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned

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Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings 2024-09-18 at 13:16 By Dan Robinson Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you’ve got there Google thinks Microsoft’s software licensing is impeding customer choice; Microsoft says AWS has “first mover” advantage; AWS also picks on Microsoft’s licensing – but all are against remedies being

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