September 2024

Firefox 130 lands with a yawn, but 131 beta teases a long-awaited feature 2024-09-04 at 20:31 By Liam Proven The upcoming version might bring tab previews, cookie banner block, and vertical tabs Firefox 130 is landing on users’ machines, while version 131 enters beta — with a feature we’ve all been waiting for.… This article […]

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‘Error’ causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump 2024-09-04 at 20:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bot shouldn’t have political opinions, says Amazon It would be perfectly reasonable to expect Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa to decline to state opinions about the 2024 presidential race, but up until recently, that assumption would have been incorrect.…

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atNorth plans mega datacenter that will help grow veggies and heat homes 2024-09-04 at 19:17 By Dan Robinson It’ll also do computery stuff Nordic datacenter operator atNorth says its next facility – the biggest to date – is to feature a heat reuse scheme for large-scale greenhouses and local housing.… This article is an excerpt

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Only 25% of organizations are prepared to manage a DDoS attack 2024-09-04 at 19:17 By A survey reveals IT and corporate leadership attitudes toward organizational security preparedness.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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North Korean Hackers Targets Job Seekers with Fake FreeConference App 2024-09-04 at 19:16 By North Korean threat actors have leveraged a fake Windows video conferencing application impersonating FreeConference.com to backdoor developer systems as part of an ongoing financially-driven campaign dubbed Contagious Interview. The new attack wave, spotted by Singaporean company Group-IB in mid-August 2024, is

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Microsoft’s Inflection acquihire is too small to matter, say UK regulators 2024-09-04 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Deal can’t lessen competition if AI minnow wasn’t much of a competitor Microsoft’s “acquihire” of Inflection AI was today cleared by UK authorities on the grounds that the startup isn’t big enough for its absorption by Microsoft to

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Cicada ransomware may be a BlackCat/ALPHV rebrand and upgrade 2024-09-04 at 17:46 By Jessica Lyons Researchers find many similarities, and nasty new customizations such as embedded compromised user credentials The Cicada3301 ransomware, which has claimed at least 20 victims since it was spotted in June, shares “striking similarities” with the notorious BlackCat ransomware, according to

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Google Confirms CVE-2024-32896 Exploited in the Wild, Releases Android Security Patch 2024-09-04 at 17:16 By Google has released its monthly security updates for the Android operating system to address a known security flaw that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-32896 (CVSS score: 7.8), relates to

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FCC finally gets around to banning Kaspersky from telecoms kit 2024-09-04 at 17:01 By Dan Robinson Communications agency now passing on the order to operators The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has woken up and issued a ban on Kaspersky software being used in telecoms kit, months after Washington deemed it a national security risk and

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GenAI spending bubble? Definitely ‘maybe’ says ServiceNow 2024-09-04 at 16:17 By Lindsay Clark It won’t generate hundreds of million of dollars for customers tomorrow, and there’s a ‘lot of noise’ from tech industry ServiceNow is trying to assure investors that payback for enterprise GenAI investment is coming, but it may not be soon and biz

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Hackers Hijack 22,000 Removed PyPI Packages, Spreading Malicious Code to Developers 2024-09-04 at 16:16 By A new supply chain attack technique targeting the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has been exploited in the wild in an attempt to infiltrate downstream organizations. It has been codenamed Revival Hijack by software supply chain security firm JFrog, which

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Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all 2024-09-04 at 15:32 By Richard Speed Musk fought the law and the law won… for now The sound of a screeching rubber on road was heard in South America last night as Elon Musk’s satellite broadband operation, Starlink, agreed to comply with an order in Brazil

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