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Android’s New Identity Check Feature Locks Device Settings Outside Trusted Locations 2025-01-24 at 09:46 By Google has launched a new feature called Identity Check for supported Android devices that locks sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside of trusted locations. “When you turn on Identity Check, your device will require explicit biometric authentication to access […]

CISA Adds Five-Year-Old jQuery XSS Flaw to Exploited Vulnerabilities List 2025-01-24 at 08:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday placed a now-patched security flaw impacting the popular jQuery JavaScript library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The medium-severity vulnerability is CVE-2020-11023 (CVSS score:

China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps 2025-01-24 at 08:03 By Simon Sharwood Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good

SEC annual scholarship program supports next-generation leaders 2025-01-24 at 07:20 By The Security Executive Council (SEC) has announced its annual scholarship program is open for applications.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Healthcare cyberattacks caused financial damage for 69% of organizations 2025-01-24 at 07:20 By A cyberattack resulted in financial damage for 69% of healthcare organizations, compared to 60% among other industries. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional 2025-01-24 at 06:47 By Iain Thomson ‘Public interest alone does not justify warrantless querying’ says judge It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance of people’s private communications in America.… This

Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths 2025-01-24 at 03:34 By Thomas Claburn Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it’s alleged Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform Outlier, for allegedly

One of Salt Typhoon’s favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers 2025-01-24 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons But we mean, you’ve had nearly four years to patch One of the critical security flaws exploited by China’s Salt Typhoon to breach US telecom and government networks has had a patch available for

BMW trolled after announcing it’s ‘no longer posting’ on X: ‘Becoming More Woke’ 2025-01-24 at 01:08 By Thomas Barrabi German car maker BMW’s UK division got trolled by X users on Thursday after abruptly announcing that it was “no longer posting” on the platform This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product

OpenAI’s Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task 2025-01-23 at 23:33 By Thomas Claburn Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? OpenAI on Thursday launched a human-directed AI agent called Operator that

Patch now: Cisco fixes critical 9.9-rated, make-me-admin bug 2025-01-23 at 23:08 By Jessica Lyons No in-the-wild exploits … yet Cisco has pushed a patch for a critical, 9.9-rated vulnerability in its Meeting Management tool that could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate to administrator on affected devices.… This article is an

Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful 2025-01-23 at 22:21 By Dan Robinson x86 behemoth calls the approach ‘innovative’ – DIY builders may disagree Intel claims a more modular approach to PC design could make systems easier to repair and reduce electronic waste – and it has some proposals for you.… This

Kim Kardashian loses 150,000 Instagram followers after posting photo of first lady Melania Trump 2025-01-23 at 20:06 By Ariel Zilber Kardashian raised eyebrows online by posting the photo of the president’s wife wearing a wide-brimmed hat at her husband’s inauguration. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York

Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back 2025-01-23 at 20:06 By Richard Speed OpenAI boss tell world’s richest man money is there to fund infrastructure project The world has been treated to tech bro squabbling over Stargate, the $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure project, while the grown-ups look on.… This article is an

SonicWall flags critical bug likely exploited as zero-day, rolls out hotfix 2025-01-23 at 18:49 By Connor Jones Big organizations and governments are main users of these gateways SonicWall is warning customers of a critical vulnerability that was potentially already exploited as a zero-day.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Meta’s pay-or-consent model under fire from EU consumer group 2025-01-23 at 17:47 By Richard Speed Company ‘strongly disagrees’ with law infringement allegations Meta has again come under fire for its pay-or-consent model in the EU.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Palo Alto Firewalls Found Vulnerable to Secure Boot Bypass and Firmware Exploits 2025-01-23 at 17:33 By An exhaustive evaluation of three firewall models from Palo Alto Networks has uncovered a host of known security flaws impacting the devices’ firmware as well as misconfigured security features. “These weren’t obscure, corner-case vulnerabilities,” security vendor Eclypsium said in

Beware: Fake CAPTCHA Campaign Spreads Lumma Stealer in Multi-Industry Attacks 2025-01-23 at 17:33 By Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware campaign that leverages fake CAPTCHA verification checks to deliver the infamous Lumma information stealer. “The campaign is global, with Netskope Threat Labs tracking victims targeted in Argentina, Colombia, the United States, the

ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down 2025-01-23 at 17:19 By Richard Speed Generative AI needs a break, just like the rest of us, m’kay? OUTAGE  Reactivate your brain. ChatGPT has gone down.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source