2024

Pretty much all of the headaches affecting MSPs are due to cybersecurity 2024-05-30 at 13:47 By Connor Jones More cybercrime means more problems and understaffed teams stretched to the limit Managed Service Partners (MSPs) say cybersecurity dwarfs all other main concerns about staying competitive in today’s market.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

AI future: Nvidia boffin hopes ‘everything that moves will eventually be autonomous’ 2024-05-30 at 12:46 By Thomas Claburn Welcome to the ‘agentic’ era Video  The GenAI Summit 2024 opened at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, and the people, who came to hear about artificial intelligence, had made a mess

U.S. Dismantles World’s Largest 911 S5 Botnet, with 19 Million Infected Devices 2024-05-30 at 12:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday said it dismantled what it described as “likely the world’s largest botnet ever,” which consisted of an army of 19 million infected devices that was leased to other threat actors to

Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers 2024-05-30 at 11:52 By Dan Robinson Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue NAND flash industry revenue is surfing a growth wave thanks to demand for solid state drives (SSDs) in AI servers, meaning increased prices for

Arm is so, so over this AI accelerator unit craze 2024-05-30 at 11:02 By Chris Williams As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs Analysis  Arm this week announced the availability of new top-end CPU and GPU designs ready made for system-on-chips for laptops, smartphones, and similar personal electronics. These cores

Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Customer Identity Cloud 2024-05-30 at 10:24 By Okta is warning that a cross-origin authentication feature in Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) is susceptible to credential stuffing attacks orchestrated by threat actors. “We observed that the endpoints used to support the cross-origin authentication feature being attacked via credential stuffing for

Lenovo claims Dell has run off the VxRails and can’t sell hyperconverged VMware 2024-05-30 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Big Mike’s server shack offered a cryptic response. PLUS: Nutanix results Lenovo has claimed that Dell’s breakup with VMware by Broadcom goes deep – so deep that Virtzilla’s ex-owner is currently unable to sell jointly engineered

Indian stock exchange finally encrypting all messages to traders 2024-05-30 at 08:49 By Laura Dobberstein Requests for pricing will soon be encrypted, after implementation deadline was extended India’s Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has told market participants they need to adopt encryption – which, shockingly, isn’t already implemented – for certain messages sent to its trading

Malaysia stakes claim to become semiconductor superpower by luring $100bn investment from … somewhere 2024-05-30 at 06:57 By Laura Dobberstein Suggests itself as the place to do high-end manufacturing without upsetting anyone Malaysia intends to court RM500 billion ($107 billion) worth of semiconductor industry investment, according to prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.… This article is an

Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea 2024-05-30 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Workplace safety org identifies 26 hazards in the chipmaking process Two workers at a Samsung Electronics chip plant in South Korea have been treated for exposure to radiation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Chinese national cuffed on charges of running ‘likely the world’s largest botnet ever’ 2024-05-30 at 03:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs US authorities have arrested the alleged administrator of what FBI director Christopher Wray has described as “likely the world’s largest botnet

Miscreants claim they’ve snatched 560M people’s info from Ticketmaster 2024-05-30 at 02:16 By Jessica Lyons All that data allegedly going for a song on revived BreachForums Ticketmaster is believed to have had its IT breached by cybercriminals who claim to have stolen 1.3TB of data on 560 million of the corporation’s customers – and are

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive 2024-05-29 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder The Internet Archive has been under a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since Sunday, and is trying to keep services going.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

AI chip sales predicted to jump by a third this year – then cool off 2024-05-29 at 22:46 By Matthew Connatser Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware Gartner is predicting a 33 percent rise in revenue generated by AI chip sales in 2024 versus 2023.…