2024

MFA Spamming and Fatigue: When Security Measures Go Wrong 2024-01-18 at 15:01 By In today’s digital landscape, traditional password-only authentication systems have proven to be vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. To safeguard critical business resources, organizations are increasingly turning to multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a more robust security measure. MFA requires users to […]

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Fujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airs 2024-01-18 at 14:33 By Lindsay Clark UK political and media storm following dramatization of Post Office Horizon scandal Fujitsu has seen $1 billion wiped off its market value after a week in the political and media spotlight for its role in the UK’s Post

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Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens 2024-01-18 at 14:01 By Richard Speed Ad slinger bends to the demands of the DMA Google is making some changes to how its products, including search, will work in Europe.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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At last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon form 2024-01-18 at 13:03 By Richard Speed 10 PRINT “Retro Awesome”:20 GOTO 10 Retro Tech Week  If one of the tenets of retro computing is doing awesome things with not a lot of resources, then there are few better examples of the breed than the

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Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime 2024-01-18 at 12:17 By Connor Jones 8-year-old op responsible for DDoS attacks and commandeering broadcasts to push war material Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime syndicate called Bigpanzi.… This article is an

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PixieFail UEFI Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to RCE, DoS, and Data Theft 2024-01-18 at 12:02 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the TCP/IP network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification used widely in modern computers. Collectively dubbed PixieFail by Quarkslab, the nine issues reside in the TianoCore

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40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes 2024-01-18 at 11:32 By Iain Thomson The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what’s under the cobra’s hood Retro Tech Week  In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British national news. The

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Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn’t invest, Intel CEO claims 2024-01-18 at 10:46 By Tobias Mann Gelsinger reckons pandemic-era supply chain snarls helped demonstrate the sector’s importance The COVID-19 pandemic was a decisive factor in Intel’s decision to re-emphasize its own manufacturing prowess, after decades in which US and European

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Will AI take our jobs? That’s what everyone is talking about at Davos right now 2024-01-18 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach CEOs believe generative AI will make their companies more efficient, but more energy is needed to power the tech The one question on leaders’ minds as they debate the future of generative AI at

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Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: the AI we baked in makes you more human 2024-01-18 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Pen-equipped Ultra is this year’s hero, helped by ‘Circle to Search’ that lets you Google without exiting apps Samsung has made AI the centerpiece of its annual premium handset launch and featured its Galaxy Ultra, the

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India’s big four services giants soar on demand for AI 2024-01-18 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowed Indian IT service outfit HCL’s share price hit a record high this week, and scrip for its peers Infosys, TCS and Wipro also spiked, after the four announced quarterly results that revealed

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Global semiconductor revenues slid 11 percent in 2023, despite AI silicon splurge 2024-01-18 at 07:47 By Tobias Mann Nvidia raked in the boatloads of cash, but the rest of the industry is still hurting 2023’s copious chatter about generative AI has not translated into surging semiconductor revenues across the industry, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

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