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UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group 2024-09-19 at 15:31 By Connor Jones 4 file complaint with London’s Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed a report with London’s Metropolitan Police they hope […]

Healthcare’s Diagnosis is Critical: The Cure is Cybersecurity Hygiene 2024-09-19 at 15:31 By Cybersecurity in healthcare has never been more urgent. As the most vulnerable industry and largest target for cybercriminals, healthcare is facing an increasing wave of cyberattacks. When a hospital’s systems are held hostage by ransomware, it’s not just data at risk —

Malicious actors target UK motorists with QR code scams 2024-09-19 at 15:16 By Motorists in the United Kingdom are being targeted with QR code scams.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it 2024-09-19 at 13:46 By Richard Speed Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding Interview  Acclaimed engineer Kelsey Hightower, who stopped coding for money in 2023, remains an influential figure in the world of software, and he’s proposing something that might stir

Microsoft Warns of New INC Ransomware Targeting U.S. Healthcare Sector 2024-09-19 at 13:31 By Microsoft has revealed that a financially motivated threat actor has been observed using a ransomware strain called INC for the first time to target the healthcare sector in the U.S. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team is tracking the activity under

With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right 2024-09-19 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers UK government IT contracts worth £23.4 billion are due to end during the current five-year Parliament, according to researchers who

SiFive shifts from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator 2024-09-19 at 11:32 By Tobias Mann Seems someone’s looking for an Arm wrestle SiFive, having designed RISC-V CPU cores for various AI chips, is now offering to license the blueprints for its own homegrown full-blown machine-learning accelerator.… This article is an

Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters 2024-09-19 at 11:16 By Simon Sharwood Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has predicted his hyperscale semiconductor customers will continue building AI clusters for another three to five years, with each generation of machines

Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin 2024-09-19 at 11:16 By Iain Thomson Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor The Tor project has insisted its privacy-preserving powers remain potent, countering German reports that user anonymity on its network can be and has been compromised by police.… This

NTT Data, IBM, team on mainframe cloud for banks 2024-09-19 at 11:16 By Laura Dobberstein SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue’s LinuxONE The mainframe has found another role, thanks to Japan’s IT services giant NTT Data which has decided to build a hybrid cloud service based on the IBM LinuxONE

GitLab Patches Critical SAML Authentication Bypass Flaw in CE and EE Editions 2024-09-19 at 08:31 By GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass. The vulnerability is rooted in the ruby-saml library (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS score: 10.0), which could allow

Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers 2024-09-19 at 07:02 By Laura Dobberstein Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume Lenovo revealed on Tuesday that it will manufacture AI servers at its plant in Puducherry, India, and has opened a new infrastructure research

4 steps organizations can take to get started with AI-powered SecOps 2024-09-19 at 07:02 By SecOps teams need a complete solution for building, migrating and managing cloud applications and environments.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

LinkedIn started harvesting people’s posts for training AI without asking for opt-in 2024-09-19 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood You’ll have to opt out if you don’t like it – EU and a few others excepted LinkedIn started harvesting user-generated content to train its AI without asking for permission, angering netizens.… This article is an excerpt

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win 2024-09-19 at 01:21 By Brandon Vigliarolo Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union’s General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. …

FBI boss says China ‘burned down’ 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds 2024-09-19 at 00:17 By Iain Thomson Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them.… This article is

LockBit boasts of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com 2024-09-18 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Add ‘ransomware’ to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House 2024-09-18 at 22:46 By Jessica Lyons US govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls’ latest antics to Make America Grate Again Russia really wants Donald Trump to be the next US President, judging by reports from American government agencies and now Microsoft’s threat intelligence team.… This article

IBM is quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says 2024-09-18 at 22:16 By Thomas Claburn We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, our sources have said.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Lebanon hit now with walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war 2024-09-18 at 21:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Second wave of exploding gear pushes death toll higher First it was pagers, now Lebanon is being rocked by Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies detonating across the country.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source