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AsyncRAT Campaign Uses Python Payloads and TryCloudflare Tunnels for Stealth Attacks 2025-02-05 at 12:37 By A malware campaign has been observed delivering a remote access trojan (RAT) named AsyncRAT by making use of Python payloads and TryCloudflare tunnels. “AsyncRAT is a remote access trojan (RAT) that exploits the async/await pattern for efficient, asynchronous communication,” Forcepoint […]

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Remember it’ll cost ya to keep the lights on for Windows 10 2025-02-05 at 11:33 By Richard Speed At $61 per device, doubling each year, security updates from November are going to add up quickly Microsoft has quietly updated a support document on how the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 will work

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Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page 2025-02-05 at 10:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo You’ll upgrade that aging piece of kit and you’ll like it For the past three years, Microsoft documented a way to run Windows 11 on PCs that lack Trusted Platform Module 2.0 hardware – but that workaround

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Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle 2025-02-05 at 09:33 By Thomas Claburn Big Red accused of stalling or derailing legal fight by challenging fraud claim Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills 2025-02-05 at 08:49 By Simon Sharwood New home, Planet9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs Exclusive  Rackspace is moving some of its back-office workloads off VMware and onto a platform called Private Cloud Director offered

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CISA Adds Four Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities to KEV Catalog, Urges Fixes by Feb 25 2025-02-05 at 08:03 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows –

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DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices 2025-02-05 at 07:19 By Simon Sharwood As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has banned the use of DeepSeek on federal government devices.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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CISA’s communications guidance: A wake-up call for all industries 2025-02-05 at 07:19 By CISA’s guidance is not just a wake-up call for communications service providers.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Securing property in wildfire-prone areas: 5 ways to reduce risks 2025-02-05 at 07:19 By How security leaders can protect their businesses and employees when the next natural disaster strikes.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Who’s afraid of DeepSeek’s impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su 2025-02-05 at 05:33 By Tobias Mann Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive AMD’s chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer’s Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of dollars in annual

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Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit … and sees its shares sink 2025-02-05 at 04:49 By Thomas Claburn Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you’re not overspending on AI? Google’s parent Alphabet has achieved $100 billion in annual net income for the first time.… This article is an excerpt from

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Google torpedoes ‘no AI for weapons’ rules 2025-02-05 at 03:48 By Jessica Lyons Will now happily unleash the bots when ‘likely overall benefits substantially outweigh the foreseeable risks’ Google has published a new set of AI principles that don’t mention its previous pledge not to use the tech to develop weapons or surveillance tools that

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Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number 2025-02-05 at 01:33 By Iain Thomson Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify

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