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European Bank Customers Targeted in SpyNote Android Trojan Campaign 01/08/2023 at 14:17 By Various European customers of different banks are being targeted by an Android banking trojan called SpyNote as part of an aggressive campaign detected in June and July 2023. “The spyware is distributed through email phishing or smishing campaigns and the fraudulent activities are executed […]

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GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default 01/08/2023 at 13:47 By Liam Proven Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it? The GNOME desktop is considering adding support for automatic window tiling. This could be a significant productivity boost for the

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What is Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)? 01/08/2023 at 13:32 By Data Security Posture Management is an approach to securing cloud data by ensuring that sensitive data always has the correct security posture – regardless of where it’s been duplicated or moved to. So, what is DSPM? Here’s a quick example: Let’s say you’ve built

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Researchers Expose Space Pirates’ Cyber Campaign Across Russia and Serbia 01/08/2023 at 13:32 By The threat actor known as Space Pirates has been linked to attacks against at least 16 organizations in Russia and Serbia over the past year by employing novel tactics and adding new cyber weapons to its arsenal. “The cybercriminals’ main goals are still

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Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a ‘wish’, not a plan 01/08/2023 at 12:33 By Jude Karabus Notably stretching the target requires ‘a credible pathway towards its delivery,’ says committee The British government is hoping to hit 24 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity by 2050 as well as roll out a new

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China’s APT31 Suspected in Attacks on Air-Gapped Systems in Eastern Europe 01/08/2023 at 12:33 By A nation-state actor with links to China is suspected of being behind a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe that took place last year to siphon data stored on air-gapped systems. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky attributed the intrusions

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AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off 01/08/2023 at 11:49 By Lindsay Clark Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans Cloud giant AWS has picked table format Apache Iceberg to extend the reach of its Redshift data warehouse to data lakes, in a move replicated by IBM’s

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US military battling cyber threats from within and without 01/08/2023 at 10:33 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle As if attacks from China weren’t enough, one of the Air Force’s own has reportedly gone rogue The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who potentially gained access to crucial American

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AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier’s guardian 01/08/2023 at 09:48 By Thomas Claburn If you need to trick a classifier into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts Analysis  A Google scientist has demonstrated that OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM), despite its widely cited capacity

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China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway 01/08/2023 at 09:18 By Laura Dobberstein Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.…

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Panasonic liquidates its liquid crystal display business 01/08/2023 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood Here’s your metaphor for the state of the world: factory will be re-used to make EV batteries Panasonic has announced it has quit the Liquid Crystal Display business and will use the factory where it made the units to build batteries instead.…

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Cybercriminals Renting WikiLoader to Target Italian Organizations with Banking Trojan 01/08/2023 at 07:32 By Organizations in Italy are the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages a new strain of malware called WikiLoader with an ultimate aim to install a banking trojan, stealer, and spyware called Ursnif (aka Gozi). “It is a sophisticated downloader with the objective of

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Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica 01/08/2023 at 07:17 By Katyanna Quach Not quite a controlled deorbit but not an uncontrolled one, either Video  The European Space Agency’s Aeolus weather satellite has reentered Earth’s atmosphere after engineers sent their final commands to destroy the hardware. The machine, or whatever remains of

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