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Never mind those Chinese spies: US Air Force picks Verizon for 35 base network upgrades 2025-01-08 at 18:44 By Brandon Vigliarolo Salt Typhoon? Unpatched network kit? Sorry, I think you’re breaking up Never mind that whole Salt Typhoon hiccup – Verizon’s reputation hit hasn’t stopped it from securing a deal to upgrade the networks on […]

Meta employees rip Mark Zuckerberg for ending fact-checking, adding Dana White to board: ‘Extremely concerned’ 2025-01-08 at 18:20 By Ariel Zilber Workers at the Silicon Valley giant voiced their displeasure on the company’s internal messaging forum on Tuesday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

Application security and risk management in financial organizations 2025-01-08 at 18:20 By Financial services companies are under pressure to deliver secure software faster like never before. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research 2025-01-08 at 17:33 By Connor Jones Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction Argentine cybersecurity shop Eclypsium claims security issues affecting leading DNA sequencing devices could lead to disruptions in crucial clinical research.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Japan’s wooden satellite exits International Space Station 2025-01-08 at 17:04 By Richard Speed Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own Japan’s wooden satellite, LignoSat, has been deployed into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Instagram users find AI images of themselves on their feeds in ‘nightmarish situation’ — here’s what to do 2025-01-08 at 16:47 By Brooke Kato An Instagram user was scrolling through his feed only to stumble upon AI-generated photos of himself shared by Meta AI. But there’s a way to turn off this feature. This article

UN’s aviation agency confirms attack on recruitment database 2025-01-08 at 16:03 By Connor Jones Various data points compromised but no risk to flight security The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations’ aviation agency, has confirmed to The Register that a cyber crim did indeed steal 42,000 records from its recruitment database.… This article

AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won’t last 2025-01-08 at 16:03 By Dan Robinson GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now… yet ‘long-term trend remains,’ says analyst Bets on the future demand for AI drove a 48 percent jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure last year,

Researchers Expose NonEuclid RAT Using UAC Bypass and AMSI Evasion Techniques 2025-01-08 at 15:45 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan called NonEuclid that allows bad actors to remotely control compromised Windows systems. “The NonEuclid remote access trojan (RAT), developed in C#, is a highly sophisticated malware offering unauthorised remote

The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now 2025-01-08 at 14:35 By Paul Kunert ‘For 30 years you thought you were business geniuses,’ veteran analyst tells resellers and distributors Opinion  The tech hardware industry may be facing something of an existential crisis if one veteran analyst is correct – the days of

Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK 2025-01-08 at 14:12 By Richard Speed Maureen Costello hopes to ’empower’ businesses with AI Google has hired Maureen Costello, a Microsoft and Accenture veteran, to the role of Vice President for UK, Ireland, and Sub-Saharan Africa regions as the UK’s Competition Markets Authority (CMA) prepares

Top 5 Malware Threats to Prepare Against in 2025 2025-01-08 at 14:11 By 2024 had its fair share of high-profile cyber attacks, with companies as big as Dell and TicketMaster falling victim to data breaches and other infrastructure compromises. In 2025, this trend will continue. So, to be prepared for any kind of malware attack,

Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed 2025-01-08 at 13:07 By Jessica Lyons Here’s what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts up for hijacking

Mirai Botnet Variant Exploits Four-Faith Router Vulnerability for DDoS Attacks 2025-01-08 at 12:32 By A Mirai botnet variant has been found exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Four-Faith industrial routers since early November 2024 with the goal of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The botnet maintains approximately 15,000 daily active IP addresses, with the

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn’t get any better, Ghostty ships 2025-01-08 at 12:21 By Liam Proven HashiCorp co-founder’s side project reaches 1.0 – er, 1.0.1 Ghostty is more interesting than it sounds, for several reasons: who wrote it, what it does, and the language it was written in are all more unusual than

FCC Launches ‘Cyber Trust Mark’ for IoT Devices to Certify Security Compliance 2025-01-08 at 12:04 By The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for Internet-of-Things (IoT) consumer devices. “IoT products can be susceptible to a range of security vulnerabilities,” the U.S. Federal Communications

UK digital markets watchdog expects to launch investigations within the month using new powers 2025-01-08 at 11:35 By Lindsay Clark Regulator will see a ‘participative’ approach before imposing fines The UK market regulator said it would take a “participative” approach to exercising its new powers under the legislation designed to curb the market power of

Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business 2025-01-08 at 10:33 By Tobias Mann Plus: A peek at Nvidia’s latest hype CES  AMD unleashed a flood of CPUs at the annual CES super-conference this week in Las Vegas – chips that span the gamut from high-end