2024

HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms 2024-11-20 at 14:37 By Dan Robinson GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees HPE is continuing its GreenLake push with availability of its own virtualization product, plus disconnected operations for regulated environments, while touting an object storage platform intended to deliver greater performance and […]

NHIs Are the Future of Cybersecurity: Meet NHIDR 2024-11-20 at 13:48 By The frequency and sophistication of modern cyberattacks are surging, making it increasingly challenging for organizations to protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure. When attackers compromise a non-human identity (NHI), they can swiftly exploit it to move laterally across systems, identifying vulnerabilities and compromising

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off 2024-11-20 at 13:33 By Richard Speed If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud The debut of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 yesterday was met with severe turbulence as servers struggled to keep up with user demand.… This article is an

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 2024-11-20 at 12:50 By Liam Proven Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit  Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Steam cuts the cord for legacy Windows and macOS 2024-11-20 at 11:48 By Liam Proven Don’t say you weren’t warned The latest Steam client finally delivers on the warning from January, dropping support for several older OS versions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Decades-Old Security Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu’s Needrestart Package 2024-11-20 at 11:48 By Multiple decade-old security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the needrestart package installed by default in Ubuntu Server (since version 21.04) that could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges without requiring user interaction. The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), which identified and

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season 2024-11-20 at 10:50 By Connor Jones Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 A pair of researchers say they’ve determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased

China-Backed Hackers Leverage SIGTRAN, GSM Protocols to Infiltrate Telecom Networks 2024-11-20 at 09:39 By A new China-linked cyber espionage group has been attributed as behind a series of targeted cyber attacks targeting telecommunications entities in South Asia and Africa since at least 2020 with the goal of enabling intelligence collection. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous 2024-11-20 at 09:17 By Mark Pesce CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value I recently got to play a ‘fly on the wall’ at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected

European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing 2024-11-20 at 08:19 By Richard Speed Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium Exclusive  The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has launched the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to keep an eye on software licensing practices in the sector.… This