2024

FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software 2024-03-26 at 12:31 By Liam Proven Multiple CHERI-related projects win money for important research that prizes safety over speed The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system.… This article is an

UK elections are unaffected by China’s cyber-interference, says deputy PM 2024-03-26 at 11:32 By Connor Jones Sanctions galore for APT31, which has been blamed for two major attacks on democracy The UK’s deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, says China has been unsuccessful in its attempts to undermine UK elections.… This article is an excerpt from

U.S. Sanctions 3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges for Helping Russia Evade Sanctions 2024-03-26 at 11:22 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for offering services used to evade economic restrictions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. This includes Bitpapa IC FZC LLC,

Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws 2024-03-26 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin’ Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same issue.… This article is

Cloudflare reveals it’s automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often 2024-03-26 at 09:31 By Simon Sharwood Error budget’ and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed Cloudflare has revealed a little about how it maintains the millions of boxes it operates around the world – including the concept of an “error budget” that enacts

SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success 2024-03-26 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) –

CISA Alerts on Active Exploitation of Flaws in Fortinet, Ivanti, and Nice Products 2024-03-26 at 08:17 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday placed three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities added are as follows – CVE-2023-48788 (CVSS score: 9.3) – Fortinet FortiClient EMS

RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s 2024-03-26 at 07:32 By Matthew Connatser Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle A demo of Yingren Technology’s YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller – built entirely on the RISC-V architecture – showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without