January 2025

A New Year’s gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don’t work 2025-01-02 at 12:36 By Richard Speed Canon confirms multifunction devices struggling with Windows 11 24H2 Windows 11 24H2 is still causing problems with multifunction devices despite Microsoft marking an issue with the eSCL scan protocol as resolved.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

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Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid 2025-01-02 at 11:52 By Dan Robinson Report charts four scenarios from ‘Sustainable AI’ to ‘Who Turned Out The Lights?’ Policymakers need to carefully guide the future consumption of electricity by AI datacenters, according to a report that considers four potential scenarios and suggests a number

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Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade ludicrous speed for the boring art of actually working 2025-01-02 at 10:38 By Dan Robinson Eight generation of the standard is all about ultra reliability Wi-Fi 8 is coming, but it looks set to focus on greater reliability rather than on pushing the bandwidth ever higher, as the most recent updates

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Malicious Obfuscated NPM Package Disguised as an Ethereum Tool Deploys Quasar RAT 2025-01-02 at 10:37 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar RAT onto developer systems.

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Three Russian-German Nationals Charged with Espionage for Russian Secret Service 2025-01-02 at 10:37 By German prosecutors have charged three Russian-German nationals for acting as secret service agents for Russia. The individuals, named Dieter S., Alexander J., and Alex D., have been accused of working for a foreign secret service. Dieter S. is also alleged to

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Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers? 2025-01-02 at 07:37 By Simon Sharwood The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it It’s hard to get excited about feature phones with 320 x 240 resolution, but Shioupyn

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Protecting healthcare data, improving trust through security measures 2025-01-02 at 07:04 By In today’s digital age, protecting sensitive medical information is not just a regulatory requirement but a cornerstone of trust and business integrity. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second 2025-01-01 at 20:33 By Thomas Claburn You may not need that high-bandwidth brain-computer interface Caltech researchers have estimated the speed of human thought to be a mere 10 bits per second, a data rate so leisurely that it underscores the need for further research

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New “DoubleClickjacking” Exploit Bypasses Clickjacking Protections on Major Websites 2025-01-01 at 16:50 By Threat hunters have disclosed a new “widespread timing-based vulnerability class” that leverages a double-click sequence to facilitate clickjacking attacks and account takeovers in almost all major websites. The technique has been codenamed DoubleClickjacking by security researcher Paulos Yibelo. “Instead of relying on

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Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did 2025-01-01 at 15:33 By Rupert Goodwins 2024’s Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Opinion  Happy new year! Tradition says that this is when we boldly look forward to what may happen in the 12 months to come. Do you really want to know that? Didn’t

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Iranian and Russian Entities Sanctioned for Election Interference Using AI and Cyber Tactics 2025-01-01 at 13:49 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday leveled sanctions against two entities in Iran and Russia for their attempts to interfere with the November 2024 presidential election. The federal agency said the entities

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US Army soldier who allegedly stole Trump’s AT&T call logs arrested 2025-01-01 at 10:51 By Jessica Lyons Brings the arrest count related to the Snowflake hacks to 3 A US Army soldier has been arrested in Texas after being indicted on two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information. … This article is an

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Starlink direct-to-cell is coming to Ukraine 2025-01-01 at 10:33 By Richard Speed Cell towers not required when messaging on Musk’s finest Ukraine mobile operator Kyivstar will roll out direct-to-cell satellite connectivity via Starlink.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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