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Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in a future release 11/10/2023 at 01:52 By Thomas Claburn It’s PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release.… This article is an […]

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SBF on trial: The FTX Python code that allegedly let his Alameda hedge fund spend people’s deposits 11/10/2023 at 00:35 By Thomas Claburn And Caroline Ellison says she was told by Bankman-Fried to take $10B from customer accounts At the fraud trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors presented the jury with Python code

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HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ zero-day exploited in biggest DDoS deluge seen yet 10/10/2023 at 23:48 By Connor Jones Botnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second A zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol was exploited to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record, according to Cloudflare.… This article is an excerpt

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54% of IT leaders believe advances AI systems pose incoming risks 10/10/2023 at 23:32 By IT leaders were surveyed on incoming security risks within the next one to three years, including generative AI, data privacy and third parties.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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Threat actors exploit HTTP/2 vulnerability 10/10/2023 at 22:17 By In August of 2023, Cloudflare discovered a zero-day vulnerability developed by an unknown threat actor that exploits the standard HTTP/2 protocol. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Swedish tech biz aims to sail past traffic woes on electric hydrofoils 10/10/2023 at 22:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo But P-12’s production timeline is fuzzy A Swedish technology company thinks it has a solution to the misery of urban commutes, at least for those in cities with good access to waterways: 30-seat, all-electric hydrofoil shuttles that

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Mirai reloads exploit arsenal as botnet embarks on another expansion drive 10/10/2023 at 21:17 By Connor Jones With 13 new payloads it’s the biggest update to the botnet in months The infamous Mirai botnet was spotted by researchers who say it is spinning up again, this time with an “aggressively updated arsenal of exploits.”… This

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Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone 10/10/2023 at 20:47 By Paul Kunert Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case Google pays Apple between $18 billion to $20 billion a year to remain the dominant search engine in

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90% of CISOs faced at least one cyberattack in 2022 10/10/2023 at 20:17 By The security practices of Chief Information Security Officers and Chief Security Officers were analyzed in a recent report by Splunk Inc. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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9 factors to consider when choosing a blockchain consensus mechanism 10/10/2023 at 20:03 By Cointelegraph By Cointelegraph Innovation Circle Both broad and narrow considerations come into play when choosing a blockchain project’s consensus mechanism. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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RISC-V org claims export restrictions would stifle innovation 10/10/2023 at 19:51 By Dan Robinson Efforts to deny China access will hurt the ‘open’ part of open standard, says collab body CEO The CEO of RISC-V International is warning US politicos that subjecting the open processor standard to export restrictions could result in the development of

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Researcher bags two-for-one deal on Linux bugs while probing GNOME component 10/10/2023 at 19:07 By Connor Jones One-click exploit could potentially affect most major distros Researchers discovered a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in an inherent component of GNOME-based Linux distros, potentially impacting a huge number of users.… This article is an excerpt from

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HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited to Launch Record DDoS Attacks 10/10/2023 at 18:34 By Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The layer 7 attacks were detected in late August 2023, the companies

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Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database 10/10/2023 at 18:18 By Richard Speed But only if you’re ready to cozy up in Azure’s abode Microsoft says it plans to keep on supporting Apache Cassandra 3.11 a year past its end-of-life date… just as long as you’re running it as an Azure Managed

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The new Cointelegraph Research Terminal, home to critical crypto data reports 10/10/2023 at 18:02 By Cointelegraph By Cointelegraph Research Cointelegraph’s new Research Terminal offers a slick new look and more features to help retail and institutional investors navigate the crypto space. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this

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Fresh curl tomorrow will patch ‘worst’ security flaw in ages 10/10/2023 at 17:48 By Richard Speed It’s bad, folks. Pair of CVEs incoming on October 11 Start your patch engines – a new version of curl is due tomorrow that addresses a pair of flaws, one of which lead developer Daniel Stenberg describes as “probably

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Incus 0.1 is Canonical’s LXD ‘containervisor’ with Ubuntu integration stripped out 10/10/2023 at 16:49 By Liam Proven Community fork delivers first code for more distro-neutral functionality The first version of Incus, the community project working on a fork of Canonical’s so-called LXD “containervisor,” is here.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Russian Nauka module plays leak-a-boo with International Space Station 10/10/2023 at 16:02 By Richard Speed Faulty backup radiator is bleeding coolant into the black The International Space Station just sprung another leak. And you can give yourself a pat on the back if your first guess at the source was the Russian Nauka module.… This

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Google Adopts Passkeys as Default Sign-in Method for All Users 10/10/2023 at 16:02 By Google on Tuesday announced the ability for all users to set up passkeys by default, five months after it rolled out support for the FIDO Alliance-backed passwordless standard for Google Accounts on all platforms. “This means the next time you sign in to

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New information physics theory is evidence ‘we’re living in a simulation,’ says author 10/10/2023 at 15:38 By Lindsay Clark But why would a simulation create El Reg? Mmm… pizza Going by the fact that Elon Musk said there was only one in a billion chance that the world was not simulated, we might save ourselves

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