2024

Japan to test datacenter powered by reused hydrogen fuel cells 2024-01-03 at 16:47 By Dan Robinson The source? Repurposed parts from electric vehicles Honda and Mitsubishi are to test the feasibility of powering a datacenter with fuel cells taken from electric vehicles, using hydrogen produced as a byproduct of an industrial process.… This article is […]

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Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to ‘make Start menu great again’ 2024-01-03 at 16:17 By Richard Speed Users aren’t the only ones questioning the Windows 11 feature’s utility Windows boss Mikhail Parakhin has admitted that the Start menu needs a bit of work.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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5 New Year’s resolutions for CISOs 2024-01-03 at 16:17 By In an ever-evolving digital age, how can CISOs prepare themselves and their employees? What should they take into consideration for the new year? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Copy that? Xerox confirms ‘security incident’ at subsidiary 2024-01-03 at 15:31 By Connor Jones Company’s removal from ransomware gang’s leak blog could mean negotiations underway Xerox has officially confirmed that a cyber baddie broke into the systems of its US subsidiary – a week after INC Ransom claimed to have exfiltrated data from the copier

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Malware Using Google MultiLogin Exploit to Maintain Access Despite Password Reset 2024-01-03 at 15:31 By Information stealing malware are actively taking advantage of an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named MultiLogin to hijack user sessions and allow continuous access to Google services even after a password reset. According to CloudSEK, the critical exploit facilitates session persistence and cookie

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Mobile vehicle barriers: Long-term security solution for temporary events 2024-01-03 at 15:16 By Even without terroristic intent, crash-rated mobile vehicle barriers offer a proven solution against vehicle ramming incidents, like the one experienced in Waukesha to those caused by simple error.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

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CloudBees co-founder buzzes about open source drama and AI 2024-01-03 at 14:46 By Richard Speed Sacha Labourey on the HashiCorp license, Jenkins X experiments, and when LLMs will come for your job Interview  “It’s the experiment that went too far,” says CloudBees’ Sacha Labourey of HashiCorp’s licensing change.… This article is an excerpt from The

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EU lassos tech giants in bid to rein in the AI Wild West 2024-01-03 at 14:01 By Lindsay Clark Interpretation, debate, and judges set to decide how the rubber hits the road Analysis  As 2023 drew to a close, the year of AI hype was ending as it began. According to figures from Pitchbook, Big

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Japanese earthquake disrupts chip industry operations 2024-01-03 at 13:18 By Laura Dobberstein Industry lull good for tech, but human toll is grim reading The 7.6 preliminary magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on New Year’s Day is forcing Ishikawa Prefecture chip and electronics companies to temporarily shut their doors, with affected companies including Toshiba, GlobalWafers, Murata

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5 Ways to Reduce SaaS Security Risks 2024-01-03 at 13:18 By As technology adoption has shifted to be employee-led, just in time, and from any location or device, IT and security teams have found themselves contending with an ever-sprawling SaaS attack surface, much of which is often unknown or unmanaged. This greatly increases the risk

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SMTP Smuggling: New Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Security and Spoof Emails 2024-01-03 at 13:18 By A new exploitation technique called Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) smuggling can be weaponized by threat actors to send spoofed emails with fake sender addresses while bypassing security measures. “Threat actors could abuse vulnerable SMTP servers worldwide to send malicious

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In surprise move, Gentoo Linux starts offering binaries 2024-01-03 at 12:31 By Liam Proven The most successful compile-it-yourself Linux distro now has compiled, packaged executables Gentoo now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Google flaunts concurrency, optimization as cloud rivals overhaul platforms 2024-01-03 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Details sub-CPU allotments, performant Iceberg tables after Microsoft, Databricks bring market noise Feature  Last year was a big one for data analytics and ML in the cloud. Two of the biggest players, Microsoft and Databricks, both overhauled their platforms, with

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Formal ban on ransomware payments? Asking orgs nicely to not cough up ain’t working 2024-01-03 at 10:46 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle With the average demand hitting $1.5 million, something’s gotta change Emsisoft has called for a complete ban on ransom payments following another record-breaking year of digital extortion.… This article is an excerpt from The

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DOJ Slams XCast with $10 Million Fine Over Massive Illegal Robocall Operation 2024-01-03 at 10:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday said it reached a settlement with VoIP service provider XCast over allegations that it facilitated illegal telemarketing campaigns since at least January 2018, in contravention of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR).

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