2024

Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it’s not enough 2024-07-23 at 05:01 By Laura Dobberstein Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore Indonesia has an online gambling problem. Despite having blocked access to wagering content over 2.5 million times last year, the nation’s Ministry of Communications […]

Google’s plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles 2024-07-23 at 03:16 By Thomas Claburn Ad giant promises will offer to protect privacy, as critics say surveillance continues Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies, the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based

Mozilla Thunderbird finally gets system tray notifications 2024-07-23 at 00:46 By Thomas Claburn After 24 years, bug report finally gets fixed Mozilla’s Thunderbird team has fixed a 24-year-old feature bug, bringing system tray mail notifications to GNOME and KDE desktop environments for Linux users.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

When Quality is Everything 2024-07-22 at 23:48 By Adam Bromwich Today’s Connected World Expects Near-Infallibility This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Global cops power down world’s ‘most prolific’ DDoS dealership 2024-07-22 at 23:31 By Connor Jones One arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect’s identity yet A DDoS-for-hire site described by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) as the world’s most prolific operator in the field is out-of-action following a law enforcement

Meta’s mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge 2024-07-22 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo You can’t offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB Separation agreements Meta gave to employees during mass 2022 layoffs are illegal, a US judge has decided, and the reasoning could have implications far beyond Zuckercorp.… This article is

What does Google Gemini do with your data? Well, it’s complicated… 2024-07-22 at 22:16 By Jessica Lyons Big misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we’re told Google, after facing accusations about its AI model ingesting private files, says Gemini can read and summarize this type of sensitive data in real time – but only with

Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market 2024-07-22 at 21:46 By Tobias Mann But will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls? Comment  US trade restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators to China haven’t detered Nvidia from bringing its latest Blackwell architecture to the Middle Kingdom.… This article is

LA County Superior Court closes doors to reboot justice after ransomware attack 2024-07-22 at 20:17 By Jessica Lyons Some rest for the wicked? Los Angeles County Superior Court, the largest trial court in America, closed all 36 of its courthouses today following an “unprecedented” ransomware attack on Friday.… This article is an excerpt from The

Cybercrooks crafting solo careers in wake of ransomware takedowns 2024-07-22 at 19:47 By Connor Jones More baddies go it alone as trust in big gangs withers, claims Europol A fresh report from Europol suggests that the recent disruption of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups is fragmenting the threat landscape, making it more difficult to track.… This article

A majority of the SEC lawsuit against SolarWinds has been dismissed 2024-07-22 at 19:16 By A judge has dismissed a majority of the SEC lawsuit against SolarWinds. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Engineers fix ESA’s Gaia observatory from 1.5 million kilometers away 2024-07-22 at 18:46 By Richard Speed And you thought rolling back a borked update on a server down the hall was hard? The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared the story of how engineers brought a mission back from the brink after a micrometeoroid strike,

Cloudy with a Chance of Hackers: Protecting Critical Cloud Workloads 2024-07-22 at 18:16 By David Broggy If you’ve been following along with David’s posts, you’ll have noticed a structure to the topics: Part I: The Plan, Part II: The Execution and now we move into Part III: Security Operations. Things get a bit more exciting

Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets 2024-07-22 at 17:31 By Matthew Connatser Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive The internet is becoming significantly more hostile to webpage crawlers, especially those operated for the sake of generative AI, researchers say.… This article is an excerpt from The

Experts Uncover Chinese Cybercrime Network Behind Gambling and Human Trafficking 2024-07-22 at 17:16 By The relationship between various TDSs and DNS associated with Vigorish Viper and the final landing experience for the user A Chinese organized crime syndicate with links to money laundering and human trafficking across Southeast Asia has been using an advanced “technology

Oracle coughs up $115M to make privacy case go away 2024-07-22 at 17:01 By Lindsay Clark Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action Oracle has agreed to cough up $115 million to settle a two-year class action lawsuit that alleged misuse of user data.… This article is an excerpt from