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Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users 2024-01-17 at 14:02 By Richard Speed Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order The latest Windows Server 2022 patch has broken the Chrome browser, and short of uninstalling the update, a registry hack is the only way to restore service for […]

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Feds Warn of AndroxGh0st Botnet Targeting AWS, Azure, and Office 365 Credentials 2024-01-17 at 13:46 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that threat actors deploying the AndroxGh0st malware are creating a botnet for “victim identification and exploitation in target networks.” A Python-based malware, AndroxGh0st was first documented by Lacework in

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Webinar: The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins 2024-01-17 at 13:46 By In the digital age, the battleground for security professionals is not only evolving, it’s expanding at an alarming rate. The upcoming webinar, “The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins,” offers an unmissable opportunity for IT security experts

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The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world’s computers 2024-01-17 at 13:17 By Lindsay Clark …though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down Retro Tech Week  Forty years ago, both Jerome and Marilyn Murray saw their brainchild reach the light of day. In 1984, their book, Computers

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New iShutdown Method Exposes Hidden Spyware Like Pegasus on Your iPhone 2024-01-17 at 13:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified a “lightweight method” called iShutdown for reliably identifying signs of spyware on Apple iOS devices, including notorious threats like NSO Group’s Pegasus, QuaDream’s Reign, and Intellexa’s Predator.  Kaspersky, which analyzed a set of iPhones that were compromised with Pegasus, said the

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BT to spell out contract price hikes in pounds and pence 2024-01-17 at 12:17 By Paul Kunert None of this inflation-linked percentage nonsense, says Ofcom BT is ditching mid-contract price hikes linked to inflation before Britain’s comms regulator issues a blanket ban in pursuit of greater transparency for customers.… This article is an excerpt from

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Home improvement marketers dial up trouble from regulator 2024-01-17 at 11:32 By Paul Kunert ICO slaps penalties on two businesses that collectively made more than 3 million cold calls Another week and yet another couple of pesky cold callers face fines from the UK’s data privacy watchdog for “bombarding” unsuspecting households with marketing messages about

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YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus 2024-01-17 at 10:47 By Thomas Claburn Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters Google claims users of popular ad-blocking extensions have wrongly blamed YouTube for slow video streaming speeds – and that the content filters themselves are the reason for

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GitHub Rotates Keys After High-Severity Vulnerability Exposes Credentials 2024-01-17 at 10:16 By GitHub has revealed that it has rotated some keys in response to a security vulnerability that could be potentially exploited to gain access to credentials within a production container. The Microsoft-owned subsidiary said it was made aware of the problem on December 26,

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What are our top picks from the vast world of retro tech? Let’s find out 2024-01-17 at 09:31 By Iain Thomson Standby to be amazed: Lotus Notes is still being developed Kettle  It’s Retro Tech Week here at The Register, and we’ve got four of our vultures together to talk about old computers and software

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Combination of cheap .cloud domains and fake Shark Tank news fuel unhealthy wellness scams 2024-01-17 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood .SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife Scammers are buying up cheap domain names to host sites that sell dodgy health products using fake articles, according to cybercrime disruption outfit

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Google updates Chrome’s Incognito Mode data slurp disclaimer in early browser build 2024-01-17 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein After settling privacy lawsuit now admits you’re observable even when trying for anonymity Google has altered the text describing data collection when users employ Incognito Mode in its Chrome browser.… This article is an excerpt from The

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