2024

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug 2024-04-18 at 12:46 By Liam Proven 2.9 gives a taste of what’s to come Major updates to Debian’s Advanced Packaging Tool don’t come along very often, but APT 2.9 is here with a significant facelift.… This article is an excerpt from

AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope 2024-04-18 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester Forrester Research says that although 50 models of AI PCs are already on sale today there remains “no killer app” that would make any

Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer 2024-04-18 at 11:01 By Lindsay Clark Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches 2024-04-18 at 10:16 By Simon Sharwood Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats Cisco has developed a product called Hypershield that it thinks represents a new way to do network security.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain ‘addictive and toxic’ new app 2024-04-18 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes The European Commission on Wednesday gave TikTok 24 hours to explain the risk assessment procedures it used before launching a version of the made-in-China app that rewards users for

Hackers Exploit OpenMetadata Flaws to Mine Crypto on Kubernetes 2024-04-18 at 09:16 By Threat actors are actively exploiting critical vulnerabilities in OpenMetadata to gain unauthorized access to Kubernetes workloads and leverage them for cryptocurrency mining activity. That’s according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the flaws have been weaponized since the start of April 2024.

Singapore infosec boss warns China/West tech split will be bad for interoperability 2024-04-18 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein When you decide not to trust a big chunk of the supply chain, tech (and trade) get harder One of the biggest challenges Singapore faces is the potential for a split between tech stacks developed and used

Malicious Google Ads Pushing Fake IP Scanner Software with Hidden Backdoor 2024-04-18 at 08:16 By A new Google malvertising campaign is leveraging a cluster of domains mimicking a legitimate IP scanner software to deliver a previously unknown backdoor dubbed MadMxShell. “The threat actor registered multiple look-alike domains using a typosquatting technique and leveraged Google Ads to