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VMware migrations will be long, expensive, and risky, warns Gartner 2025-01-21 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon If the changes Broadcom brought to VMware have you thinking of a move to an alternative virtualization platform, expect a long, costly, and risky project – and […]

PNGPlug Loader Delivers ValleyRAT Malware Through Fake Software Installers 2025-01-21 at 08:48 By Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks that have targeted Chinese-speaking regions like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China with a known malware called ValleyRAT. The attacks leverage a multi-stage loader dubbed PNGPlug to deliver the ValleyRAT payload, […]

TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan 2025-01-21 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next Taiwan has experienced an earthquake so significant that chipmaking champ TSMC has shuttered plants.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

CERT-UA Warns of Cyber Scams Using Fake AnyDesk Requests for Fraudulent Security Audits 2025-01-21 at 07:48 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests. The AnyDesk requests claim to be for conducting an audit to […]

Why data protection is non-negotiable for every business 2025-01-21 at 07:05 By As organizations develop security strategies and efforts to safeguard their data, there are several key pillars they must prioritize. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency emerges with tech modernization mission 2025-01-21 at 05:50 By Simon Sharwood US Digital Service re-named and told to audit government tech and work on data-sharing US President Donald Trump has re-named the US Digital Service the Department of Government Efficiency and given it a mission to modernize government technology.… This […]

China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale 2025-01-21 at 02:33 By Simon Sharwood President Trump hasn’t moved, yet, but has already ordered administration not to interfere in social media moderation China appears to have softened its stance on the possible sale of TikTok’s US operations and is now perhaps open to the […]

Improved Windows Search arrives… but only for Copilot+ PCs 2025-01-21 at 01:34 By Richard Speed Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders Windows Search is improved in the latest Dev Channel Windows Insider build, but you’ll need a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC to use it.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late 2025-01-21 at 00:04 By Liam Proven Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies It’s a bit later than we were expecting, but the latest Mint is here and should start to be offered as an upgrade soon.… This article is an excerpt from […]

AWS declares it’s Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise 2025-01-20 at 22:48 By Lindsay Clark Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to demand from customers […]

Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy 2025-01-20 at 21:04 By Iain Thomson Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It’s 2030 and China’s furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a […]

TikTok awaits Trump reprieve as China signals it is open to deal 2025-01-20 at 20:23 By Reuters China has signaled it would be open to a deal to keep TikTok in the US market. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users 2025-01-20 at 20:23 By Richard Speed Ready or not, here I come Microsoft has begun distributing Windows 11 24H2 to user devices as the company enters the next stage of the operating system’s rollout.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original […]

Take a security team from data-wrangling to data analysis 2025-01-20 at 18:25 By This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

DoNot Team Linked to New Tanzeem Android Malware Targeting Intelligence Collection 2025-01-20 at 18:03 By The Threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to a new Android malware as part of highly targeted cyber attacks. The artifacts in question, named Tanzeem (meaning “organization” in Urdu) and Tanzeem Update, were spotted in October and […]

Unsecured Tunneling Protocols Expose 4.2 Million Hosts, Including VPNs and Routers 2025-01-20 at 18:03 By New research has uncovered security vulnerabilities in multiple tunneling protocols that could allow attackers to perform a wide range of attacks. “Internet hosts that accept tunneling packets without verifying the sender’s identity can be hijacked to perform anonymous attacks and […]

SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes 2025-01-20 at 17:50 By Richard Speed Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean ‘entertainment’ SpaceX is not the only company involved in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mishap inquiry. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has also come under scrutiny after losing its New Glenn rocket’s […]

Trump meme coin surges to nearly $11B in value as president-elect prepares to take oath of office 2025-01-20 at 17:01 By Ariel Zilber The meteoric rise in the digital currency’s value coincided with Bitcoin’s record-setting high. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

AI chatbots still can’t accurately answer high-level history questions: study 2025-01-20 at 16:53 By Ariel Zilber While artificial intelligence excels at tasks like coding and podcast generation, it struggles to accurately answer high-level history questions, according to a study. Researchers tested OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama and Google’s Gemini using a newly developed benchmark called Hist-LLM. […]