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Prior UK goverment planned £485M four-year budget for Palantir-based healthcare system 2024-08-21 at 13:31 By Lindsay Clark Documents from NHS England meeting reveal scope of politicos spending intent Exclusive  The total planned budget for the English health service’s controversial Palantir-based analytics system was set to reach £485 million over four years, according to figures seen […]

Slack AI can be tricked into leaking data from private channels via prompt injection 2024-08-21 at 12:31 By Thomas Claburn Whack yakety-yak app chaps rapped for security crack Slack AI, an add-on assistive service available to users of Salesforce’s team messaging service, is vulnerable to prompt injection, according to security firm PromptArmor.… This article is

UK competition regulator’s cloud probe remedies have global implications 2024-08-21 at 11:33 By Dan Robinson Egress fees? Ticked. Spend discounts? Not yet. Software licensing? Might need to shape up, Microsoft Britain’s competition watchdog is scheduled to announce a provisional decision in the coming weeks on its examination into whether the major cloud players engage in

Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases 2024-08-21 at 10:48 By Simon Sharwood Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside – and a bigger bill than ever A US man has been sentenced to 81 months in jail for faking his own death by hacking government systems and

Chinese fast fashion companies Shein, Temu, escalate epic e-commerce squabble 2024-08-21 at 09:34 By Laura Dobberstein Fall-apart five-dollar fashion houses get their Spider-Man meme moment Shein, a Chinese purveyors of desperately cheap goods, has raised lurid claims its rival Temu in a new lawsuit.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

CERT-UA Warns of New Vermin-Linked Phishing Attacks with PoW Bait 2024-08-21 at 09:34 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of new phishing attacks that aim to infect devices with malware. The activity has been attributed to a threat cluster it tracks as UAC-0020, which is also known as Vermin. The

Atlassian CEO’s idea to build 4,000-kilometer extension cord plugged in 2024-08-21 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Giant solar farm in Australia will make ‘leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore Atlassian CEO Mike Atlassian Cannon-Brookes’s plan to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore has been approved by the land down under’s government.… This article

The integration security paradox: Strategies to protect data 2024-08-21 at 08:18 By Integration strategies and security threats evolve, so a comprehensive audit approach is essential.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

GiveWP WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Puts 100,000+ Websites at Risk 2024-08-21 at 08:01 By A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WordPress GiveWP donation and fundraising plugin that exposes more than 100,000 websites to remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-5932 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the plugin prior to

China’s chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations 2024-08-21 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein Think tank warns US and friends they can’t assume Beijing won’t catch up China’s chip design and fabrication capabilities lag significantly behind the US and its allies, according to a report from US think tank the

Authentication bypass discovered in Microsoft Entra ID 2024-08-21 at 07:17 By Security leaders weigh in on a recently revealed authentication bypass in Microsoft Entra ID.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source