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Vulnerability discovered in Subaru’s connected vehicle service 2025-01-31 at 14:03 By Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle service contains a vulnerability that permits access to user accounts and vehicles.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024 2025-01-31 at 13:48 By Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps. The tech giant also noted […]

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns 2025-01-31 at 13:48 By Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series […]

Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks 2025-01-31 at 13:48 By Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software. Instead, it simply relies on manipulating emotions such as trust, fear, and respect for authority, […]

BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows 2025-01-31 at 13:19 By Dan Robinson Only 35% of those premises actually hooked up though, plus company reports ‘higher competitor losses’ BT Group claims to have pulled off a record build rate of more than a million premises in the final three months of 2024 […]

European Space Agency picks Thales Alenia Space to build lunar lander 2025-01-31 at 12:36 By Richard Speed ESA and the Argonauts The European Space Agency (ESA) has inked a deal worth €862 million with Thales Alenia Space to develop a lunar lander.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Another banner year for ransomware gangs despite takedowns by the cops 2025-01-31 at 11:04 By Jessica Lyons And it doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict the future If the nonstop flood of ransomware attacks doesn’t already make every day feel like Groundhog Day, then a look back at 2024 – and predictions for 2025 […]

Googlers asked if they’d like to bury themselves next to Stadia, Chromecast, DropCam 2025-01-31 at 09:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo That’s one way to focus the Platforms & Devices team Google’s latest round of layoffs is looking a bit different than usual, with the Chocolate Factory offering a buyout to employees in the recently created Platforms […]

Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May Lead to Credential Theft 2025-01-31 at 09:18 By Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs, warning customers that attackers could exploit them to gain elevated access or obtain sensitive information. The list of identified flaws, […]

Meta staffers revolt over tampon removal from men’s rooms — show up with their own 2025-01-31 at 08:18 By Fox Business Silicon Valley tech workers are bringing women’s sanitary products into men’s bathrooms as part of a quiet rebellion. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post […]

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032 2025-01-31 at 08:18 By Iain Thomson Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us … sadly Video  Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid is going to swing by Earth in 2032 with a 1-in-100 chance of hitting […]

Why SIEM’s obituary was written too soon 2025-01-31 at 07:03 By There are a few fundamental ways SIEM will need to evolve for it to stay relevant and meet today’s cybersecurity challenges.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons 2025-01-31 at 04:33 By Tobias Mann Imagine burning through $72B in one year. Did they make Sam Altman the CEO already? Intel capped off a tumultuous year with a reality check for its product roadmaps.… This article is an excerpt from […]

Google to Iran: Yes, we see you using Gemini for phishing and scripting. We’re onto you 2025-01-31 at 03:34 By Iain Thomson And you, China, Russia, North Korea … Guardrails block malware generation Google says it’s spotted Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean government agents using its Gemini AI for nefarious purposes, with Tehran by […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook promises iPhone sales will rebound after AI features were slow to roll out 2025-01-31 at 03:04 By Reuters iPhone sales and China revenue for the holiday quarter were weak due to stiff Chinese competition. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original […]

Want Intel in your Surface? That’ll be $400 extra, says Microsoft 2025-01-31 at 01:03 By Tobias Mann Makes you wonder, how bad could Windows-on-Arm really be? Businesses looking to pick up a Surface Pro tablet or laptop powered by Intel’s latest generation of Core Ultra processors can expect to pay at least $400 more compared […]

VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation 2025-01-31 at 00:18 By Jessica Lyons Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom’s virtualization giant Broadcom has fixed five flaws, collectively deemed “high severity,” in VMware’s IT operations and log management tools within Cloud Foundation, including two information disclosure bugs that could lead […]

What better place to inject OpenAI’s o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right? 2025-01-30 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuclear weapon security, also tick OpenAI has announced another deal with Uncle Sam, this time to get its very latest models in the hands of US government scientists.… This article […]

Tesla’s numbers disappoint again … and the crowd goes wild again 2025-01-30 at 21:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Boy who’s cried wolf on autonomous driving for years swears ‘there’s a damn wolf this time’ Tesla had a pretty dismal fourth-quarter of 2024 and a rough year overall, financially. But you wouldn’t know it from the after-hours […]