2024

Chipmaker Microchip reveals cyber attack whacked manufacturing capacity 2024-08-21 at 04:18 By Simon Sharwood Defense contractor gets hacked – what’s the worst that could happen US semiconductor manufacturing firm Microchip Technology has revealed an “unauthorized party disrupted the Company’s use of certain servers and some business operation.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all 2024-08-21 at 00:31 By Tobias Mann Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series In an apparent reversal, AMD has decided that its Ryzen 3000-series processors released in 2019 are actually worth patching against the recently disclosed SinkClose vulnerability.… This article is an excerpt

Writers sue Anthropic for feeding ‘stolen’ copyrighted work into Claude 2024-08-20 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets Anthropic was sued on Monday by three authors who claim the machine-learning lab unlawfully used their copyrighted work to train its Claude AI model.… This article is an excerpt

Detecting AWS Account Compromise: Key Indicators in CloudTrail Logs for Stolen API Keys 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By As cloud infrastructure becomes the backbone of modern enterprises, ensuring the security of these environments is paramount. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) still being the dominant cloud it is important for any security professional to know where to

Czech Mobile Users Targeted in New Banking Credential Theft Scheme 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By Mobile users in the Czech Republic are the target of a novel phishing campaign that leverages a Progressive Web Application (PWA) in an attempt to steal their banking account credentials. The attacks have targeted the Czech-based Československá obchodní banka (CSOB), as

Open source biz promises to slash bills with observability-as-a-service in the cloud 2024-08-20 at 22:16 By Richard Speed AWS first, others to follow VictoriaMetrics has become the latest open source company to offer a hosted product, claiming around five times the savings for customers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11’s altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission 2024-08-20 at 20:32 By Richard Speed Let’s hope the spacesuits hold up for extravehicular activity The Polaris Dawn mission to send humans to a 1,400 km orbit – higher than 1966’s Gemini 11 – is set for launch in less than a week.…

PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By Lindsay Clark Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database’s perceived weaknesses A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL’s weaknesses as an analytics database.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By A survey has revealed that 2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

36% of global internet traffic originated from bots 2024-08-20 at 18:46 By A recent report report found that 91% of cyberattacks – up from 69% in 2023 – targeted multiple customers using mass scanning techniques. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Plane-tracking app admits user passwords, SSNs exposed for over 3 years 2024-08-20 at 17:33 By Connor Jones Notification omits a number of key details Popular flight-tracking app FlightAware has admitted that it was exposing a bunch of users’ data for more than three years.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source