2024

Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard 2024-07-05 at 11:31 By Connor Jones Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations – and it’s not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.… This

Time Lords decree: No leap second needed in 2024 2024-07-05 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, even if Earth is spinning out The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) announced on Thursday there will be no leap second added to 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The

Polyfill[.]io Attack Impacts Over 380,000 Hosts, Including Major Companies 2024-07-05 at 08:01 By The supply chain attack targeting widely-used Polyfill[.]io JavaScript library is wider in scope than previously thought, with new findings from Censys showing that over 380,000 hosts are embedding a polyfill script linking to the malicious domain as of July 2, 2024. This

Good news: Samsung predicts prodigious profit pop 2024-07-05 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Bad news: It’s probably because you have to pay more for RAM Samsung Electronics has advised investors it is set to post bumper profits and notch a big jump in revenue for the quarter ended June 30.… This article is an excerpt

New Golang-Based Zergeca Botnet Capable of Powerful DDoS Attacks 2024-07-05 at 07:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that’s capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Written in Golang, the botnet is so named for its reference to a string named “ootheca” present in the command-and-control (C2) servers (“ootheca[.]pw” and “ootheca[.]top”).

Security leaders discuss three sophisticated nation-state campaigns 2024-07-05 at 07:16 By A new report details 3 sophisticated nation-state campaigns, and security leaders share their insights. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Kindle sputters out: Amazon’s e-readers couldn’t download content for a day or more 2024-07-05 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood Support line reports ‘high volume of contacts’ about the problem Owners of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader devices looking for something new to read may have had to pick up an actual book – the old-school kind, made

We’ve banned Chinese telco kit and drones. Next: mountain bikes? 2024-07-05 at 04:01 By Laura Dobberstein DJI builds a power pack for off-road two-wheelers Nations worried about China’s ability to use its tech companies for more than trade now have a new class of kit to fret over: mountain bikes, thanks to Middle Kingdom drone-maker

Atos shuffles debt around as curtain call nears for restructuring saga 2024-07-04 at 19:46 By Dan Robinson Investors will be hoping so anyway Crisis-prone IT services outfit Atos says it is among the top 11 percent of companies in the industry – at least when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks –

Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won’t 2024-07-04 at 17:31 By Lindsay Clark Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won’t reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database Opinion  Last week, I committed a crime. No, I did not defraud the IRS/HMRC or steal some Snyder’s Pretzels/Cheesy

AST SpaceMobile promises the Moon with seamless satellite phone service 2024-07-04 at 16:01 By Dan Robinson Yet all its birds remain resolutely earthbound AST SpaceMobile has reiterated its plans to enable a satellite phone service covering the entire continental US that will work seamlessly with existing devices, thanks to spectrum sharing agreements with AT&T and

Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia 2024-07-04 at 15:01 By Liam Proven Miracle-WM takes several more steps forward The Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Canonical’s Mir display server has hit 0.3 – and also reaches places you may not expect to find Canonical code.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Datacenter demand driven by AI… but constrained by power shortages 2024-07-04 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Not content with drinking up all our water, now we’ll compete with DCs for power Demand for datacenter space is currently at a high in many markets around the globe because of the AI boom, despite issues with securing