December 2024

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 2024-12-05 at 11:59 By Liam Proven A third-party Kubuntu remix with a severe identity crisis Wubuntu is a stripped-down Kubuntu, with custom themes and additional tools to make it look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.… This article is an excerpt from The

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600,000 sensitive files exposed by data broker SL Data Services 2024-12-05 at 11:15 By A non-password protected database belonging to data broker SL Data Services has exposed more than 600,000 sensitive files.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Ransomware hangover, Putin grudge blamed for vodka maker’s bankruptcy 2024-12-05 at 10:36 By Connor Jones Stoli Group on the rocks in the US Two US subsidiaries of alcohol giant Stoli Group filed for bankruptcy protection this week over financial difficulties exacerbated by an August ransomware attack.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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ANEL and NOOPDOOR Backdoors Weaponized in New MirrorFace Campaign Against Japan 2024-12-05 at 10:35 By The China-linked threat actor known as MirrorFace has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign mainly targeting individuals and organizations in Japan since June 2024. The aim of the campaign is to deliver backdoors known as NOOPDOOR (aka HiddenFace) and

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Google DeepMind touts AI model for ‘better’ global weather forecasting 2024-12-05 at 09:33 By Thomas Claburn Bases predictions on historical data, instead of solving physics equations Google DeepMind researchers claim they’ve used machine learning to devise a model that can deliver better 15-day weather forecasts and requires only modest quantities of compute resources to produce

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Temporary printable tattoos could be the future of EEGs 2024-12-05 at 09:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo Boffins’ big brainwave of using custom skullcaps to capture, er, more brainwaves Eggheads in the US are said to have created an easier, faster, and just-as-reliable but much cooler way to measure brain activity than the bulky, wire-ridden caps used

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NCA Busts Russian Crypto Networks Laundering Funds and Evading Sanctions 2024-12-05 at 08:18 By The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Wednesday announced that it led an international investigation to disrupt Russian money laundering networks that were found to facilitate serious and organized crime across the U.K., the Middle East, Russia, and South America. The

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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Flaws in Zyxel, ProjectSend, and CyberPanel 2024-12-05 at 08:18 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added multiple security flaws affecting products from Zyxel, North Grid Proself, ProjectSend, and CyberPanel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list

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China encourages local orgs to seek alternatives to US silicon 2024-12-05 at 07:45 By Simon Sharwood Which could be in short supply as Beijing bans rare earth exports Four of China’s top industry bodies have published advice suggesting members source fewer semiconductors from US silicon slingers, because supply chain issues caused by sanctions mean they

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The 2024 Annual Guarding Report: Navigating the Changing Weather 2024-12-05 at 07:17 By Security executives and guarding companies identify trends in security guarding throughout 2024, from political, climate-related challenges, violence, and theft. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chinese clouds target small and medium enterprises in APAC in search of growth 2024-12-05 at 06:24 By Laura Dobberstein Smaller buyers see deep discounts and suddenly worry less about regulatory issues Canalys Forums APAC  Chinese cloud vendors are undercutting their US counterparts on price and making inroads into the Asian small and medium business market,

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Broadcom makes U-turn on plan to serve top 2,000 VMware customers itself 2024-12-05 at 04:34 By Simon Sharwood Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations – which Dell says are on the cards Canalys APAC Forum  Broadcom has revised its strategy to work directly with the top

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