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Apple’s iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Netherlands and Germany weigh in 14/09/2023 at 15:02 By Richard Speed Europe worried about French safety findings Apple’s woes over the iPhone 12’s electromagnetic waves do not seem to be going away, with more EU countries intending to take another look at the device following France’s decision to […]

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UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM 14/09/2023 at 14:17 By Richard Speed How about the ministers go next? UK citizens wondering if Whitehall civil servants really “get” technology may be heartened to learn that the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology have signed up

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N-Able’s Take Control Agent Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation 14/09/2023 at 13:47 By A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able’s Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-27470 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability, which,

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Here’s why cloud credentials are the hottest item on criminal marketplaces 14/09/2023 at 13:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle And they cost less than a box of donuts Stolen cloud credentials cost about the same as a dozen donuts, according to IBM X-Force, whose threat intel team says logins make up almost 90 percent of goods

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Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps 14/09/2023 at 12:35 By Chris Williams Well, when it’s finished, anyway Google has begun breaking out its Outline proxy client-server code into an SDK so developers can eventually bake the censorship-evading tech into their apps.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Russian Journalist’s iPhone Compromised by NSO Group’s Zero-Click Spyware 14/09/2023 at 12:06 By The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around February

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These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks 14/09/2023 at 11:47 By Liam Proven Build a new XT with HDMI graphics or run Windows ME at 4K – because why not? The retro computing hobby is always throwing up innovative ideas and methods… such as a CGA card with HDMI output,

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Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster 14/09/2023 at 10:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Black hole stun: They’re more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder Not to alarm anyone, but the nearest black holes to Earth are closer than we previously thought. … This article is an excerpt from The

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Amazon unleashes Gen AI for product descriptions, curbs it for Kindle 14/09/2023 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood When you’re shopping from ‘TBMPOY’ or ‘CARWORNIC’ will you even notice the difference? Amazon.com has unleashed a generative AI service for sellers in its supersized souk.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Beijing freezes social media service for a month as punishment letting kids see smut 14/09/2023 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein TikTok-esque Mini Worlds, part of the Tencent empire, shamed, fined, warned to do better China’s cyberspace regulator on Wednesday ordered Tencent’s QQ messaging platform to shut down its short video creation and sharing service for

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Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign 14/09/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood Those of you happy to spend ten hours in a single-aisle A321, take note Airbus has commenced functional and reliability testing of its A321XLR, a passenger plane expected to open up new routes by allowing the aviation workhorse

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The role of unarmed security officers in active shooter response 14/09/2023 at 07:16 By The Northwell Health security leadership extends active shooter response training to armed and unarmed officers, ensuring an all-hands approach to violence. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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The gorilla in your security plan 14/09/2023 at 07:16 By Security leaders need to maintain the bigger picture of their work, assessing risk on an ongoing basis. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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China kind-of-mostly denies it’s banned iPhones from use in government 14/09/2023 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry China’s Foreign Ministry has denied on reports that government agencies have restricted the use of Apple’s iPhones.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Cisco dumps its Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure 14/09/2023 at 03:47 By Simon Sharwood To Nutanix go the spoils, to VMware users comes a compatibility nightmare Cisco has discontinued its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters 14/09/2023 at 03:02 By Chris Williams Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now Google has confirmed it is this week laying off a few hundred staff from its global recruitment team.…

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GitHub alienates developers by force feeding them AI recommendations 14/09/2023 at 02:02 By Thomas Claburn Decision to combine user-curated feed with algorithmic stuff leaves coders fuming A week ago, GitHub fused its home page feed with algorithmic recommendations, infuriating more than a few users of the Microsoft-owned code-hosting giant.… This article is an excerpt from

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Watchdog urges change of HART: Late, expensive US biometric ID under fire 13/09/2023 at 23:16 By Thomas Claburn Homeland Security told to mind costs, fix up privacy controls Twice delayed and over budget, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been told by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that it needs to correct shortcomings

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Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard 13/09/2023 at 22:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Another load of automakers teams up to lean into the inevitable If you want to gauge the automotive industry’s temperature on electric vehicles, just take a look at the volume of collaborative projects they’re all working on, including most recently

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Uncle Sam warns deepfakes are coming for your brand and bank account 13/09/2023 at 21:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle No, you CEO is not on Teams asking you to transfer money Deepfakes are coming for your brand, bank accounts, and corporate IP, according to a warning from US law enforcement and cyber agencies.… This article

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