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University of Richmond receives ‘Stop the Bleed’ grant 10/07/2023 at 22:17 By The University of Richmond (UR) has received funding to expand campus safety. UR’s public safety team will deploy the “Stop the Bleed” program. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Fedora Project mulls ‘privacy-respecting’ usage telemetry 10/07/2023 at 22:02 By Liam Proven Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn’t alienated enough people recently The Fedora Project is considering a proposal to introduce some limited usage telemetry in a future release. Predictably, quite a few users are not delighted with this development.… This article is an excerpt

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GenAI will amplify cybersecurity threats, but there’s hope 10/07/2023 at 20:47 By Whether firms adopt generative AI (GenAI) or not, hackers and security researchers are already exploring how it could be abused to attack anyone. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Starlink satellites leaking astronomy-disturbing EM radiation, say boffins 10/07/2023 at 20:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo The light pollution problem is so 2022 Nevermind the light pollution – the ever-growing swarm of Starlink satellites orbiting Earth are creating a fresh unknown problem for astronomers: They’re leaking electromagnetic radiation. … This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk 10/07/2023 at 19:34 By Jude Karabus X Corp boss invokes spirit of ‘Cops arrest man for burning Burning Man man’ Elon Musk is suing the lawyers who were representing Twitter when it sued him for trying to abandon his $44 billion takeover offer

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Microsoft’s Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm 10/07/2023 at 18:33 By Dan Robinson Network issues caused by nature’s hilarious prank A freak summer storm in the Netherlands is being blamed for causing network issues in Microsoft’s Azure West Europe region last week, according to a preliminary post-incident review by the company.…

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Cybersecurity researchers identify new ShadowVault malware 10/07/2023 at 18:32 By A new malware has been identified by Guardz. The malware known as ‘ShadowVault’ is capable of stealing sensitive data from macOS-based devices. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $64,000 vinyl turntable 10/07/2023 at 17:48 By Richard Currie Ive got a bad feeling about this There must have been a time when Apple thought that anything Sir Jony Ive touched turned to gold. Now luxury hi-fi manufacturer Linn will be hoping the same – with a

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US unhappy about China’s tech pushback, rules out decoupling 10/07/2023 at 16:48 By Laura Dobberstein When we sanction you, it’s for national security. When you sanction us, that’s just spiteful US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has attempted to reset US/China relations, while also framing recent tech-related measures imposed by Beijing as inappropriate.… This article is

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New Mozilla Feature Blocks Risky Add-Ons on Specific Websites to Safeguard User Security 10/07/2023 at 16:33 By Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. “We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to

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BT CEO Jansen confirms he’s quitting within 12 months 10/07/2023 at 16:04 By Paul Kunert FTTP builds? 25M homes target on track. 68% coverage of 5G in UK. Mega redundancies programme initiated. He’s off BT’s CEO Philip Jansen today fired the starting gun on the race to find his successor by confirming he intends to

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New TOITOIN Banking Trojan Targeting Latin American Businesses 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By Businesses operating in the Latin American (LATAM) region are the target of a new Windows-based banking trojan called TOITOIN since May 2023. “This sophisticated campaign employs a trojan that follows a multi-staged infection chain, utilizing specially crafted modules throughout each stage,” Zscaler researchers Niraj Shivtarkar

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RomCom RAT Targeting NATO and Ukraine Support Groups 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By The threat actors behind the RomCom RAT have been suspected of phishing attacks targeting the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius as well as an identified organization supporting Ukraine abroad. The findings come from the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team, which found two malicious documents submitted from

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Global Retailers Must Keep an Eye on Their SaaS Stack 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By Brick-and-mortar retailers and e-commerce sellers may be locked in a fierce battle for market share, but one area both can agree on is the need to secure their SaaS stack. From communications tools to order management and fulfillment systems, much of

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Hackers Steal $20 Million by Exploiting Flaw in Revolut’s Payment Systems 10/07/2023 at 16:03 By Malicious actors exploited an unknown flaw in Revolut’s payment systems to steal more than $20 million of the company’s funds in early 2022. The development was reported by the Financial Times, citing multiple unnamed sources with knowledge of the incident. The breach

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Number of pensioners hurt by DWP legacy system error actually 65,000 10/07/2023 at 15:01 By Lindsay Clark UK benefits department forced to use ‘legacy bridge’ to help reduce error after underpaying people by c £1B The UK’s government has upped its estimate of the number of people hit by a state pension underpayment related to

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Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog 10/07/2023 at 13:38 By Dan Robinson Ofcom takes quick glance, says: It’s off to the CMA with you The cloud infrastructure market should be referred to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for investigation, says telecoms regulator Ofcom in a freshly filed

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Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT 10/07/2023 at 13:00 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models In brief  Award-winning novelists Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, and, separately comedian Sarah Silverman and novelists

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The AI arms race could give us the cool without the cruel 10/07/2023 at 11:50 By Rupert Goodwins War is obscene but it’s also responsible for many technological advances Opinion  Every week there are so many stories about different things but with a common theme.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right? 10/07/2023 at 10:35 By Matthew JC Powell Health service techie learns what happens when you brute-force a bureaucracy Who, Me?  Ah, dear reader, it’s so delightful to have your company once again for Who, Me? in which fine upstanding Regizens like yourself regale us

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