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New report analyses ransomware activity for past 6 months 07/09/2023 at 14:48 By A new report reveals the most headline-grabbing cyber extortion event in the first half of 2023 was the Clop ransomware group. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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UK rejoins the EU’s €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program 07/09/2023 at 14:16 By Lindsay Clark Two and a half years after Brexit, some cheer for scientists based in Britain. We’re… baaaaxit (sorry!) UK scientists can once again pitch for chunks of the EU’s £86 billion ($107 billion) Horizon program after the British government negotiated re-entry

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Alert: Apache SuperSet Vulnerabilities Expose Servers to Remote Code Execution Attacks 07/09/2023 at 14:16 By Patches have been released to address two new security vulnerabilities in Apache SuperSet that could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on affected systems. The update (version 2.1.1) plugs CVE-2023-39265 and CVE-2023-37941, which make it possible to conduct nefarious

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UK drops ‘spy clause’ for scanning encrypted messages, admits it’s not ‘feasible’ 07/09/2023 at 13:19 By Richard Speed But don’t celebrate yet … it has simply kicked the online safety can down the road, Westminster style Comment  Sanity appears to have prevailed in the debate over the UK Online Safety bill after the government agreed

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Mirai Botnet Variant ‘Pandora’ Hijacks Android TVs for Cyberattacks 07/09/2023 at 13:18 By A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or

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d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models 07/09/2023 at 11:47 By Tobias Mann Microsoft among in-memory AI chip startup’s backers Generative AI infrastructure builds have given chip startups a hardware niche yet to be targeted by larger players, and in-memory biz d-Matrix has just scored $110 million in Series-B funding

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Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms 07/09/2023 at 10:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hat tip to the late Lester Clare Van Atta, whose array is behind the system A group of MIT boffins have successfully tested what they said is the first practically useful ultra-low power underwater networking and communication technology, and

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Outlook Breach: Microsoft Reveals How a Crash Dump Led to a Major Security Breach 07/09/2023 at 10:34 By Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that a China-based threat actor known as Storm-0558 acquired the inactive consumer signing key to forging tokens to access Outlook by compromising an engineer’s corporate account. This enabled the adversary to access a debugging environment

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Norway court upholds miniscule fine against Meta for flouting privacy rules 07/09/2023 at 09:32 By Thomas Claburn Targeted ads require data usage consent under EU regulations A court in Oslo, Norway, has upheld the Norwegian Data Protection Authority’s daily fines against Meta for delivering behavioral advertising in violation of data privacy rules.… This article is

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DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel 07/09/2023 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Agreed bid prices in advance with local rival for work in Australian mining camps DXC has been named as a participant in a cartel that rigged bids for work in Australia.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices 07/09/2023 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood So what? Smartphones are routinely restricted in, or excluded from, sensitive locations Analysis  Chinese authorities have reportedly banned Apple’s iPhones from some government offices.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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GSX 2023 product preview 07/09/2023 at 07:03 By Security magazine highlights different video surveillance solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI) technology for enhanced video management. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Japan’s ‘Moon sniper’ and its two ejectable landers make it into space 07/09/2023 at 06:48 By Simon Sharwood Now for the hard part: testing its ability to pick a safe landing spot Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) has successfully launched a rocket carrying the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) – an effort to test

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Test Gif 07/09/2023 at 05:46 By   This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan 07/09/2023 at 04:32 By Simon Sharwood Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess Toyota has revealed a server running out of disk space after botched maintenance was the cause of an outage that forced it to shut down 14

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AI to replace 2.4 million jobs in the US by 2030, many fewer than other forms of automation 07/09/2023 at 03:03 By Katyanna Quach It’s not all bad news. Poets are safe. And machines will take some jobs no human wants Generative AI will replace 2.4 million US jobs by 2030, and influence another eleven

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Microsoft: China stole secret key that unlocked US govt email from crash debug dump 07/09/2023 at 02:01 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Mistakes were made, lessons learned, stuff now fixed, says Windows maker Remember that internal super-secret Microsoft security key that China stole and used to break into US government email accounts back in July? … This

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Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas 07/09/2023 at 00:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone? Google is moving its annual Cloud Next conference, which just finished wrapping up in San Francisco, to the quiet and modest streets of Las Vegas.…

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Guy who ran Bitcoins4Less tells Feds he had less than zero laundering protections 06/09/2023 at 23:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle What? Yogurt Monster isn’t really a legitimate customer’s name?! A California man has admitted he failed to bake anti-money laundering protections into his cryptocurrency exchange, thus allowing scammers and drug traffickers to launder millions of

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Judge greenlights $5.9M unpaid overtime Citrix wage deal 06/09/2023 at 23:02 By Jude Karabus Agreement will settle claims the company failed to compensate staff for all the hours they worked A federal judge in North Carolina has authorized a $5.9 million settlement agreement between Citrix and workers who launched a pair of consolidated unpaid overtime

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