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Uncle Sam extends 25% CHIPS Act tax credit to wafer, solar panel manufacturing 2024-10-23 at 02:34 By Tobias Mann Meanwhile, Infinera snags up to $93M of the dwindling subsidies The lion’s share of the CHIPS Act funding has already been allocated, but Uncle Sam still has tax breaks to hand out, and it’s not even […]

US lawmakers push DOJ to prosecute tax prep firms for leaking taxpayer data to big tech 2024-10-23 at 01:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo TaxSlayer, H&R Block, TaxAct, and Ramsey Solutions accused of sharing info with Meta and Google A quartet of Democratic lawmakers have penned a letter to the US Department of Justice asking it to

Fake reviewers face the wrath of Khan 2024-10-23 at 00:33 By Iain Thomson From hell’s heart I stab at thee Fake review writers are officially on watch – the US is now enforcing a new rule to ban the practice and is promising a crackdown.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal 2024-10-22 at 23:48 By Thomas Claburn Appen points to, among other problems, a lack of high-quality training data labeled by humans The deployment of AI projects and associated return on investment (ROI) have declined, according to a large survey of IT decision-makers.… This article is an

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite with custom cores for Android phones 2024-10-22 at 22:19 By Gavin Bonshor New flagship SoC drops Arm and grows its own legs with Oryon During day one of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, it unveiled its latest flagship SoC, dubbed the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This marks a pivotal swing

Western Digital wasn’t the only one – Windows 24H2 update bluescreens Asus systems 2024-10-22 at 21:36 By Iain Thomson Microsoft blocks updates to avoid giving admins another headache In yet more problems for this month’s Windows 11 24H2 update, Microsoft has warned the new code will cause a Blue Screen of Death on some Asus

Gophish Framework Used in Phishing Campaigns to Deploy Remote Access Trojans 2024-10-22 at 21:18 By Russian-speaking users have become the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages an open-source phishing toolkit called Gophish to deliver DarkCrystal RAT (aka DCRat) and a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed PowerRAT. “The campaign involves modular infection chains

TSMC blows whistle on potential sanctions-busting shenanigans from Huawei 2024-10-22 at 20:49 By Gavin Bonshor Chip giant tells Uncle Sam someone could be making orders on the sly TSMC has reportedly tipped off US officials to a potential attempt by Huawei to circumvent export controls and obtain AI chips manufactured by the Taiwanese company.… This

The clever tech powering a wave of pig-butchering scams 2024-10-22 at 20:18 By Kim Komando Pig-butchering scams are getting more sophisticated — and more costly — by the day. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

VMware fixes critical RCE, make-me-root bugs in vCenter – for the second time 2024-10-22 at 20:18 By Jessica Lyons If the first patches don’t work, try, try again VMware has pushed a second patch for a critical, heap-overflow bug in the vCenter Server that could allow a remote attacker to fully compromise vulnerable systems after the

Tech firms to pay millions in SEC penalties for misleading SolarWinds disclosures 2024-10-22 at 19:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Unisys, Avaya, Check Point, and Mimecast settled with the agency without admitting or denying wrongdoing Four high-profile tech companies reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to pay millions of dollars in penalties for misleading

Iranian cyber actors are targeting critical infrastructure entities 2024-10-22 at 19:07 By Iranian cyber actors are targeting critical infrastructure entities via brute force. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Akira ransomware is encrypting victims again following pure extortion fling 2024-10-22 at 18:48 By Connor Jones Crooks revert to old ways for greater efficiency Experts believe the Akira ransomware operation is up to its old tricks again, encrypting victims’ files after a break from the typical double extortion tactics.… This article is an excerpt from

Meta pulls the plug on accounts tracking celebrity private jets 2024-10-22 at 18:33 By Ariel Zilber “Jet Tracking on Instagram and Threads got Zucked,” Florida-based college student Jack Sweeney wrote in a message posted to his social media account. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post

It’s about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat 2024-10-22 at 17:33 By Tobias Mann Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla? Opinion  This week, Intel and AMD set their decades-old rivalry aside to ensure x86 remains relevant amid growing adoption of competing architectures.… This article is an excerpt from The

Cybercriminals Exploiting Docker API Servers for SRBMiner Crypto Mining Attacks 2024-10-22 at 17:33 By Bad actors have been observed targeting Docker remote API servers to deploy the SRBMiner crypto miner on compromised instances, according to new findings from Trend Micro. “In this attack, the threat actor used the gRPC protocol over h2c to evade security

Security Flaw in Styra’s OPA Exposes NTLM Hashes to Remote Attackers 2024-10-22 at 17:33 By Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in Styra’s Open Policy Agent (OPA) that, if successfully exploited, could have led to leakage of New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) hashes. “The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to leak the