2024

Google to push ahead with Chrome’s ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest 2024-05-31 at 14:32 By Thomas Claburn Starting Monday, users will gradually be warned the end is near On Monday, June 3, 2024, some people using Beta, Dev, and Canary builds of Google’s Chrome browser will be presented with a warning banner when they access […]

Russian Hackers Target Europe with HeadLace Malware and Credential Harvesting 2024-05-31 at 14:01 By The Russian GRU-backed threat actor APT28 has been attributed as behind a series of campaigns targeting networks across Europe with the HeadLace malware and credential-harvesting web pages. APT28, also known by the names BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight,

Desperately seeking ICQ? It may shut down, but Nina could resurrect it 2024-05-31 at 13:46 By Liam Proven Multiple folks are working on FOSS servers for classic messaging apps Multiple independent efforts are underway to save ICQ from extinction… as well as MSN, AIM, Yahoo! and more.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

UK Surface owners can now take misbehaving laptops to Currys 2024-05-31 at 12:46 By Richard Speed Tell us what’s worse Reg readers: Microsoft support or taking your broken hardware into one of those stores UK owners of borked Surface laptops can now pop into their local Currys rather than deal with Microsoft’s own support channels

Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day 2024-05-31 at 11:46 By Liam Proven An extra-robust, novice-friendly distro, with local apps, that’s not ChromeOS EndlessOS 6 is a toughened and much-simplified immutable Debian 12 with a friendly GNOME-based desktop, aimed at kids, education, and novice users.… This article is an excerpt from The

OpenAI, Meta, TikTok Disrupt Multiple AI-Powered Disinformation Campaigns 2024-05-31 at 11:17 By OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations (IO) originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their

FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks 2024-05-31 at 09:32 By Jessica Lyons Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn’t like that one bit Cloudflare’s threat intel team claims to have thwarted a month-long phishing and espionage attack targeting Ukraine which it has attributed to Russia-aligned gang FlyingYeti.… This article is

Dell predicts 20 percent jump in memory and SSD prices later this year 2024-05-31 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Has already hiked prices to cope and is prepared to do it again while you wait for boxes with Nvidia inside Dell believes the cost of DRAM and solid state disks (SSDs) will jump by 15

IT infrastructure scared away buyers of failed e-commerce site 2024-05-31 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Whatever gear storied cycling site Wiggle used didn’t propel it to a successful sale after the biz hit bumps If there’s a MAMIL in your life – a Middle Aged Man in Lycra – you may have heard them lament

Living off the land in a victim’s network 2024-05-31 at 07:02 By Despite sophisticated threat and detection tools, cyber adversaries have proven that they are able to maintain a presence on a victim’s network.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Singapore to offer enterprises incentives to buy greener hardware 2024-05-31 at 04:46 By Laura Dobberstein and Simon Sharwood Tropical nation ends DC build hiatus and calls for energy optimization everywhere – even software Singapore will offer incentives aimed at encouraging enterprises to upgrade their hardware fleets, as part of a Green Data Centre Roadmap announced

Mystery attacker remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware update 2024-05-31 at 03:16 By Jessica Lyons Source and motive of ‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ attack unknown Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling them, according to security researchers.…

OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops 2024-05-31 at 02:31 By Thomas Claburn That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce OpenAI on Thursday said it has disrupted five covert influence operations that were attempting to use its AI services to manipulate