2024

Apple broke EC state aid rules, owes billions in back taxes 2024-09-10 at 16:31 By Paul Kunert Final judgment handed down by Court of Justice of the European Union Europe’s highest court has ruled in a “final judgment” that Apple did indeed break state aid rules by enjoying massive tax breaks in Ireland to the

ServiceNow moves its backend off MariaDB to homebrew Postgres 2024-09-10 at 16:16 By Simon Sharwood Xanadu release also adds a Pro tier, along with lots more AI SaaSy workflow vendor ServiceNow has opted for a different database to back its applications, and will introduce it this week along with the new “Xanadu” release.… This article

Oracle reports rising top line as it hooks up database service to AWS 2024-09-10 at 16:16 By Lindsay Clark Plus: CTO Larry says Big Red uses hardware ‘efficiently’ but ‘labor sparingly because labor is a security risk’ Oracle beat investment analysts’ estimates with a Q1 revenue haul of $13.3 billion, up 7 percent year-on-year, a

Experts Identify 3 Chinese-Linked Clusters Behind Cyberattacks in Southeast Asia 2024-09-10 at 15:46 By A trio of threat activity clusters linked to China has been observed compromising more government organizations in Southeast Asia as part of a renewed state-sponsored operation codenamed Crimson Palace, indicating an expansion in the scope of the espionage effort. Cybersecurity firm

Lowe’s employees targeted with malvertising campaign 2024-09-10 at 15:16 By Research identified a malvertising campaign targeting employees of Lowe’s. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

SpaceX aims high with Polaris Dawn mission 2024-09-10 at 15:01 By Richard Speed Altitude record within grasp and in-house spacesuits to be put through their paces SpaceX has launched the Polaris Dawn mission, which is set to surpass the altitude record set by Gemini 11 and feature a commercial spacewalk using SpaceX-designed Extravehicular Activity (EVA)

Shining a Light on Shadow Apps: The Invisible Gateway to SaaS Data Breaches 2024-09-10 at 14:46 By Shadow apps, a segment of Shadow IT, are SaaS applications purchased without the knowledge of the security team. While these applications may be legitimate, they operate within the blind spots of the corporate security team and expose the

New PIXHELL Attack Exploits Screen Noise to Exfiltrates Data from Air-Gapped Computers 2024-09-10 at 14:46 By A new side-channel attack dubbed PIXHELL could be abused to target air-gapped computers by breaching the “audio gap” and exfiltrating sensitive information by taking advantage of the noise generated by the pixels on the screen. “Malware in the air-gap

Cassandra redesigns indexing, storage management for 5.0 release 2024-09-10 at 14:02 By Lindsay Clark Users warned to get off 3.x releases as support ends The Apache Software Foundation Cassandra project has released the 5.0 iteration of the wide-column store database boasting new features to improve vector search, a Java update and enhanced performance.… This article

Top EU court crushes Google appeal against $2.65B Shopping antitrust ruling 2024-09-10 at 13:31 By Jude Karabus After years of legal wrangling, judges say Chocolate Factory played dirty The European Union’s Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed Google’s long-running appeal of a €2.4 billion ($2.65 billion) 2017 antitrust ruling, finding it had abused its dominance