September 2024

Elon Musk’s Starlink won’t block Elon Musk’s X in Brazil, as required by court order 2024-09-03 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Appeal panel upholds ban as Musk Xeets up a rage-storm Brazil’s Supreme Court has backed an earlier decision to force local carriers to block Elon Musk’s social network, X, as the dispute between the […]

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Secrets Exposed: Why Your CISO Should Worry About Slack 2024-09-03 at 10:47 By In the digital realm, secrets (API keys, private keys, username and password combos, etc.) are the keys to the kingdom. But what if those keys were accidentally left out in the open in the very tools we use to collaborate every day?

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Big Tech got its ‘next billion’ – but there’s three billion people still offline 2024-09-03 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein The GSMA and its friends are looking for ways to bring those within mobile range onto the ‘net In 2015 Google gave itself a mission: connect the “next billion” people to the internet. That plan

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New Flaws in Microsoft macOS Apps Could Allow Hackers to Gain Unrestricted Access 2024-09-03 at 08:01 By Eight vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Microsoft applications for macOS that an adversary could exploit to gain elevated privileges or access sensitive data by circumventing the operating system’s permissions-based model, which revolves around the Transparency, Consent, and Control

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Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps 2024-09-03 at 07:16 By Simon Sharwood Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults – so Chinese champ has shared its data Alibaba Cloud has revealed homebrew tech it used to improve server fault prediction and detection, which it claims saw its ability to detect problems

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80% of K-12 educators regularly consider their safety at work 2024-09-03 at 07:16 By A national survey of K-12 educators shows a majority regularly consider their physical safety while at work.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Ex-Engineer Charged in Missouri for Failed $750,000 Bitcoin Extortion Attempt 2024-09-03 at 06:01 By A 57-year-old man from the U.S. state of Missouri has been arrested in connection with a failed data extortion campaign that targeted his former employer. Daniel Rhyne of Kansas City, Missouri, has been charged with one count of extortion in relation

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One of China’s best GPU prospects admits it’s failing, lays off workers 2024-09-03 at 04:31 By Simon Sharwood Needs new investors to get beyond current modest products Chinese GPU-maker Xiangdixian Computing Technology has admitted it has not met its development targets and let go of some staff as part of a restructuring plan.… This article

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House to grill CrowdStrike exec on epic IT meltdown… no, not the CEO 2024-09-02 at 21:01 By Richard Speed VP Adam Meyers to testify about that faulty software update which ruined July and some of August Crowdstrike is to be hauled before the US House Homeland Security Committee this month to explain why its faulty

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Telegram CEO was ‘too free’ on content moderation, says Russian minister 2024-09-02 at 19:46 By Lindsay Clark CEO Pavel Durov charged in France, messaging platform insists it abides by EU laws Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was cuffed and charged by the French police last week, was “too free” in his approach to managing the

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NASA confirms who is flying and who is not on SpaceX Crew Dragon 2024-09-02 at 18:46 By Richard Speed Meanwhile, strange noises emanate from Starliner NASA has confirmed the names of the two crew members who will be flying to the International Space Station (ISS) on the next SpaceX mission: NASA astronaut Nick Hague and

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Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana 2024-09-02 at 17:46 By Liam Proven A Firefox fork aimed at power surfers The Zen Browser is a new effort to modernize web browsing by bringing tiling, workspaces, and so on – and it’s blissfully free of Google code.… This article is an excerpt from

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