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Veteran Microsoft engineer shares some enterprise support tips 2024-12-06 at 11:37 By Richard Speed How to tell a customer they’re an idiot without telling them they’re an idiot Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen revealed another product support trick from within the corridors of Microsoft. This time, it’s not about blowing on connectors but about avoiding casting […]

More_eggs MaaS Expands Operations with RevC2 Backdoor and Venom Loader 2024-12-06 at 10:47 By The threat actors behind the More_eggs malware have been linked to two new malware families, indicating an expansion of its malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation. This includes a novel information-stealing backdoor called RevC2 and a loader codenamed Venom Loader, both of which are

NASA finds Orion heatshield cracks won’t cook Artemis II crew 2024-12-06 at 10:31 By Laura Dobberstein Lunar flights therefore set for seven-month delay and change re-entry approach, but redesign not needed NASA’s investigation into damage found on the heatshield of the Artemis Mission’s Orion module two years ago has concluded that the technique used to

Hackers Leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels, DNS Fast-Flux to Hide GammaDrop Malware 2024-12-06 at 09:49 By The threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels as a tactic to conceal its staging infrastructure hosting a malware called GammaDrop. The activity is part of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian entities since at least early

PoC exploit chains Mitel MiCollab 0-day, auth-bypass bug to access sensitive files 2024-12-06 at 08:04 By Jessica Lyons Still unpatched 100+ days later, watchTowr says A zero-day arbitrary file read vulnerability in Mitel MiCollab can be chained with a now-patched critical bug in the same platform to give attackers access to sensitive files on vulnerable

Phishing attacks rose by more than 600% in the buildup to Black Friday 2024-12-06 at 07:02 By In the week leading up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there was a 692% increase in phishing attacks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Huawei handed 2,596,148,429,267,413, 814,265,248,164,610,048 IPv6 addresses 2024-12-06 at 04:54 By Simon Sharwood That’s 2.56 decillion of them, destined for use in CDNs and the cloud – and APNIC needed 83 decillion more to handle the request Huawei has been allocated 2.56 decillion IPv6 addresses by regional internet registry the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).

Trump names David Sacks as White House AI and cryptocurrency czar 2024-12-06 at 04:20 By Fox News President-elect Trump named former PayPal Chief Operating Officer David Sacks to be his White House artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency czar. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

Microsoft: Another Chinese cyberspy crew targeting US critical orgs ‘as of yesterday’ 2024-12-06 at 03:19 By Jessica Lyons Redmond threat intel maven talks explains this persistent pain to The Reg A Chinese government-linked group that Microsoft tracks as Storm-0227 yesterday started targeting critical infrastructures organisations and US government agencies, according to Redmond’s threat intel team.…

GameStop shares surge after cryptic post from ‘Roaring Kitty’: ‘Seen that pattern again’ 2024-12-06 at 01:48 By Reuters Gill posted a picture resembling a Time magazine cover from 2006 with a computer screen on X. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Solana blockchain’s popular web3.js npm package backdoored to steal keys, funds 2024-12-06 at 01:19 By Thomas Claburn Damage likely limited to those running bots with private key access Malware-poisoned versions of the widely used JavaScript library @solana/web3.js were distributed via the npm package registry, according to an advisory issued Wednesday by project maintainer Steven Luscher.…

Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels 2024-12-06 at 00:24 By Brandon Vigliarolo Louisiana facility’s three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW Richland Parish, a idyllic rural area in northeast Louisiana, USA, is set to host a gigantic new Meta datacenter.… This article is an excerpt

Altman to Musk: Don’t go full supervillain – that’s so un-American 2024-12-05 at 23:34 By Richard Speed OpenAI chief says he doesn’t think Elon will unleash political powers to zap AI competition OpenAI boss Sam Altman has expressed hope that Elon Musk won’t use his political clout to hurt his competitors, describing such activity as

Real-life ‘invisibility cloak’ one step closer — scientists unveil cutting-edge camouflage material 2024-12-05 at 22:19 By Ben Cost Scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the background, potentially rendering the wearer imperceptible to the naked eye. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews

Race to replace FTC chair Lina Khan pits antitrust hawks against candidate softer on Big Tech: sources 2024-12-05 at 22:19 By Thomas Barrabi The race to replace Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission is coming to a head, pitting antitrust hawks against those who want a lighter touch when it comes to

Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race 2024-12-05 at 22:05 By Tobias Mann Project includes hundreds of millions of loonies for a national supercomputing facility Canada is one of the latest nations to catch the sovereign AI bug and plans to invest $2 billion CAD ($1.42 billion USD)

Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues 2024-12-05 at 20:47 By Richard Speed Compatibility holds persist as gamers face black screens Windows 11 24H2 is set to hit more users as the Microsoft operating system enters a “new stage of availability.”… This article is an excerpt

Why Trump’s DOJ antitrust pick Gail Slater could have Google ‘shaking in its boots’ 2024-12-05 at 20:10 By Thomas Barrabi President-elect Trump’s selection of Gail Slater to serve as the Justice Department’s antitrust chief is drawing praise from anti-monopoly advocates – who said it sent a strong signal Google and Apple will remain under significant