2024

White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin 2024-01-22 at 16:32 By Richard Speed ‘Substantial increase in AWS calls’ triggers takedown notice A plugin and library to permit the control of Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances recently received takedown requests from Haier Europe’s Security and Governance department.… This article is an excerpt […]

Subway’s data torpedoed by LockBit, ransomware gang claims 2024-01-22 at 16:02 By Connor Jones Fast food chain could face a footlong recovery process if allegations are true The LockBit ransomware gang is claiming an attack on submarine sandwich slinger Subway, alleging it has made off with a platter of data.… This article is an excerpt

Politicos demand full list of Fujitsu’s public sector contract wins in wake of Post Office scandal 2024-01-22 at 15:33 By Lindsay Clark Committee wants to know which were awarded without competition and more British MPs have written to the country’s Treasury to demand details of all public sector contracts with Fujitsu as the Japanese tech

Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages 2024-01-22 at 14:32 By Richard Speed Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers It was a tricky weekend for techies – not only did Microsoft’s Azure Resource Manager fall over across the globe on January 21, 2024, local UK retailing giant

52% of Serious Vulnerabilities We Find are Related to Windows 10 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By We analyzed 2,5 million vulnerabilities we discovered in our customer’s assets. This is what we found. Digging into the data The dataset we analyze here is representative of a subset of clients that subscribe to our vulnerability scanning services. Assets

NS-STEALER Uses Discord Bots to Exfiltrate Your Secrets from Popular Browsers 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Java-based “sophisticated” information stealer that uses a Discord bot to exfiltrate sensitive data from compromised hosts. The malware, named NS-STEALER, is propagated via ZIP archives masquerading as cracked software, Trellix security researcher Gurumoorthi Ramanathan said in an

Mystery German chip fab sips on Gradiant’s ultrapure water 2024-01-22 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding Water treatment company Gradiant has won a contract to build a plant providing ultrapure water for a chip fabrication facility being constructed in Germany by an unnamed

ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz 2024-01-22 at 13:02 By Paul Kunert It’s all very well offering ‘Free Debt Help,’ but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog… A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor

Google building datacenter campus on the outskirts of London 2024-01-22 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet’s plans for ‘future capacity needs’ Google has commenced construction of a $1 billion datacenter complex on the outskirts of London it says is needed to provide a reliable service to Google Cloud customers