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Microsoft calls time on ancient TLS in Windows, breaking own stuff in the process 04/09/2023 at 17:18 By Richard Speed Hold onto your SQL Server, enterprise admins Microsoft has reminded users that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will soon be disabled by default in Windows.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source […]

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X (Twitter) to Collect Biometric Data from Premium Users to Combat Impersonation 04/09/2023 at 16:47 By X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, has updated its privacy policy to collect users’ biometric data to tackle fraud and impersonation on the platform. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information

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ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century 04/09/2023 at 16:32 By Liam Proven When your ’90s nostalgia craves a modern touch In the OS/2 world, ArcaOS 5.1 is a long-awaited release which enables this 32-bit OS from the late 20th century to run on modern PC hardware.… This article is

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Northern Irish cops release 2 men after Terrorism Act arrests linked to data breach 04/09/2023 at 15:46 By Jude Karabus Came in wake of the force publishing their own people’s data in botched FoI Nearly four weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) published data on 10,000 employees in a botched response to

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Everything You Wanted to Know About AI Security but Were Afraid to Ask 04/09/2023 at 14:47 By There’s been a great deal of AI hype recently, but that doesn’t mean the robots are here to replace us. This article sets the record straight and explains how businesses should approach AI. From musing about self-driving cars

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So you want to save energy? Ditch web apps and go native, boffins say 04/09/2023 at 13:46 By Thomas Claburn Take up less CPU time and memory? What amazing tech is this?! Eggheads at Vrije Universiteit (VU) in the Netherlands recommend that people with Android devices use native apps rather than web apps when viewing

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IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them? 04/09/2023 at 12:47 By Rupert Goodwins Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough Opinion  Knowing when the universe is trying to tell you something is a core competency for many paths through life. You can’t pass an exam in that, sadly,

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Vietnamese Cybercriminals Targeting Facebook Business Accounts with Malvertising 04/09/2023 at 12:19 By Malicious actors associated with the Vietnamese cybercrime ecosystem are leveraging advertising-as-a-vector on social media platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook to distribute malware. “Threat actors have long used fraudulent ads as a vector to target victims with scams, malvertising, and more,” WithSecure researcher Mohammad

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Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt’s £12B shopping spree 04/09/2023 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year The UK government has begun laying the groundwork for new technology buying arrangements which could become the vehicle for

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Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage 04/09/2023 at 10:02 By Simon Sharwood Just three people were on duty in Australia when ‘power sag’ struck and software failures left them blind Microsoft’s preliminary analysis of an incident that took out its Australia East cloud region last week – and which appears

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2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones 04/09/2023 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Special Projects Bureau Revisited  Long-time Reg readers may recall that in 2011 and 2013 The Register‘s Special

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Beware of MalDoc in PDF: A New Polyglot Attack Allowing Attackers to Evade Antivirus 04/09/2023 at 08:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new antivirus evasion technique that involves embedding a malicious Microsoft Word file into a PDF file. The sneaky method, dubbed MalDoc in PDF by JPCERT/CC, is said to have been employed in

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Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye 04/09/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood Microsoft ends development of free basic word processor bundled with Windows Microsoft has quietly deprecated WordPad, the bare bones word processor it’s offered at no additional cost to users ever since including it with Windows 95.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Embracing a company culture of cybersecurity starts at the top 04/09/2023 at 07:17 By A strong enterprise cybersecurity program requires leadership buy-in — and a new look at how we have traditionally secured digital environments. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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PoC Exploit Released for Critical VMware Aria’s SSH Auth Bypass Vulnerability 03/09/2023 at 08:18 By Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been made available for a recently disclosed and patched critical flaw impacting VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight). The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-34039, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 for

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The world seems so loopy. But at least someone’s written a memory-safe sudo in Rust 02/09/2023 at 14:02 By Thomas Claburn Turns out we can have nice things? The sudo command-line tool has been implemented in the Rust programming language to hopefully rid it of any exploitable memory-safety bugs.… This article is an excerpt from

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Cops drill into chat apps, sink plot to smuggle tons of coke into Europe 02/09/2023 at 11:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Big blow to blighters’ blow-by-the-boatload blueprint Video  Efforts by cops to seize and shut down encrypted messaging apps favored by criminals, and then mine their conversations for evidence, appear to have led to more

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Okta Warns of Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Super Administrator Privileges 02/09/2023 at 07:31 By Identity services provider Okta on Friday warned of social engineering attacks orchestrated by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions. “In recent weeks, multiple US-based Okta customers have reported a consistent pattern of social engineering attacks against IT service desk personnel,

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Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang 02/09/2023 at 03:32 By Tobias Mann Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs After months of work unpacking, installing, and deploying the various subsystems and supporting infrastructure, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) latest super, the Crossroads system, has been installed.…

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Rapidus ramps as construction begins on 2nm wafer fab 02/09/2023 at 00:02 By Tobias Mann Japanese foundry startup also shipping engineers off to US to study IBM chip tech Japan’s Rapidus broke ground on its IIM-1 plant in Hokkaido on Friday, kicking off a flurry of hiring as the foundry upstart races to bring its

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