2024

The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell? 2024-11-11 at 15:49 By Gavin Bonshor Tech for tech’s sake with niche uses that traditional hardware can handle Opinion  If you haven’t heard of neural processing units (NPUs) by now, you must have missed a year’s worth of AI marketing from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.… This

Multi-factor authentication to be mandatory on Google Cloud accounts 2024-11-11 at 15:18 By Google announced mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) is coming to Google Cloud accounts. Security leaders discuss the implications.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Dark web crypto laundering kingpin sentenced to 12.5 years in prison 2024-11-11 at 14:46 By Connor Jones Prosecutors hand Russo-Swede a half-billion bill The operator of the longest-running money laundering machine in dark web history, Bitcoin Fog, has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in US prison.… This article is an excerpt from

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 04 – Nov 10) 2024-11-11 at 14:36 By ⚠️ Imagine this: the very tools you trust to protect you online—your two-factor authentication, your car’s tech system, even your security software—turned into silent allies for hackers. Sounds like a scene from a thriller, right? Yet, in 2024,

A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark ‘SABDFL’ Shuttleworth 2024-11-11 at 13:48 By Liam Proven Talking to the distro’s self-appointed benevolent dictator for life about 20 years of Ubuntu Ubuntu Summit 2024  Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke to The Reg FOSS desk at Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague about the Linux distribution’s success,

The ROI of Security Investments: How Cybersecurity Leaders Prove It 2024-11-11 at 13:48 By Cyber threats are intensifying, and cybersecurity has become critical to business operations. As security budgets grow, CEOs and boardrooms are demanding concrete evidence that cybersecurity initiatives deliver value beyond regulation compliance. Just like you wouldn’t buy a car without knowing it

Australia tells tots: No TikTok till you’re 16… or X, Instagram and Facebook 2024-11-11 at 12:34 By Laura Dobberstein Tech companies, not users, to be punished for violations of social media time-out The Australian government has confirmed it will create legislation that bans access to social media for people under the age of 16.… This

Security Flaws in Popular ML Toolkits Enable Server Hijacks, Privilege Escalation 2024-11-11 at 12:34 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered nearly two dozen security flaws spanning 15 different machine learning (ML) related open-source projects. These comprise vulnerabilities discovered both on the server- and client-side, software supply chain security firm JFrog said in an analysis published last

HPE Issues Critical Security Patches for Aruba Access Point Vulnerabilities 2024-11-11 at 12:34 By Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Aruba Networking Access Point products, including two critical bugs that could result in unauthenticated command execution. The flaws affect Access Points running Instant AOS-8 and AOS-10 – AOS-10.4.x.x:

When Windows Server 2025 is delivered like it’s 1999, nobody gets to party 2024-11-11 at 11:33 By Rupert Goodwins What’s the difference between a broken update system and a malware injection engine? Opinion  A seemingly simple, single mistake in metadata that auto-trashes a critical, major component in the Windows ecosystem sounds bad. And it is,

Cybercriminals Use Excel Exploit to Spread Fileless Remcos RAT Malware 2024-11-11 at 08:33 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that spreads a new fileless variant of known commercial malware called Remcos RAT. Remcos RAT “provides purchases with a wide range of advanced features to remotely control computers belonging to the buyer,” Fortinet