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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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 –

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Google parent Alphabet shares tank over 6% as cloud revenue takes a hit from rivals 2025-02-05 at 00:48 By Reuters Google’s Cloud business posted a 30% rise in revenue to $11.96 billion in the fourth quarter, slowing down from the 35% increase in the September quarter. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

China slaps Google with antitrust probe amid retaliation for Trump tariffs 2025-02-04 at 23:48 By Tobias Mann Plus, Middle Kingdom announces tariffs and export controls of its own Google is the latest target in the brewing US-China trade war, with Beijing hitting the search giant with an antitrust probe while rolling out fresh tariffs and

Kids spend a startling number of hours on their phones during school, study reveals 2025-02-04 at 22:48 By Brooke Steinberg Researchers revealed the findings as talk about banning phones in schools increases, including in New York. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Elon Musk, Sam Altman’s OpenAI head to court in fight over for-profit shift 2025-02-04 at 22:34 By Thomas Barrabi Lawyers for Musk asked a federal judge to block OpenAI’s plan to become a for-profit entity in a highly anticipated court hearing on Tuesday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews

FBI’s secret UFO hunters fear Trump’s January 6 purge will send them into orbit 2025-02-04 at 22:34 By Jessica Lyons Maybe Musk just wants the alien space tech that definitely doesn’t exist? A previously undisclosed group of FBI agents who investigate UFOs, or “unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs),” as the government calls them, are worried they

China puts Google, Nvidia, Intel in regulatory crosshairs as Trump trade dispute escalates 2025-02-04 at 21:37 By Thomas Barrabi China opened an antitrust probe against Google as part of a sweeping set of retaliatory measures targeting the US economy after President Trump imposed a new 10% tariff on Chinese imports. This article is an excerpt

OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss Musk’s ‘fact-free’ lawsuit 2025-02-04 at 21:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Lawyers argue 105-page complaint ‘fails at its one job: to plead facts that state a claim Elon Musk’s legal grudge against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft could soon be over – again – if a California judge responds favorably to