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Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure 2024-09-18 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of ’em Microsoft is joining with BlackRock and other private equity investors in a new AI fund that aims to eventually raise $100 billion for […]

Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform 2024-09-18 at 15:31 By Connor Jones Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Hours after confirming they had pwned the supposedly uncrackable encrypted messaging platform used for all manner of organized crime, Ghost, cops have now named the

Claims of hacked voter data aims to cause distrust in elections 2024-09-18 at 15:16 By Claims of hacked voter data are intended to cause distrust in the election process, the FBI and CISA warn.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By Thomas Claburn AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot’s work The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have

Why Pay A Pentester? 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to today, would we have imagined just

UK pensions department’s project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B 2024-09-18 at 14:16 By Lindsay Clark Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a £958.7 million ($1.2 billion) search for a supplier to develop business processes for new ERP and HR

North Korean Hackers Target Energy and Aerospace Industries with New MISTPEN Malware 2024-09-18 at 14:01 By A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN. The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned

Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings 2024-09-18 at 13:16 By Dan Robinson Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you’ve got there Google thinks Microsoft’s software licensing is impeding customer choice; Microsoft says AWS has “first mover” advantage; AWS also picks on Microsoft’s licensing – but all are against remedies being

Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared 2024-09-18 at 12:32 By Jessica Lyons ‘Lives will be lost’ as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units Feature  As Russian special forces push more overtly into online operations, network defenders should be on the hunt for digital intruders looking to carry out cyberattacks that end in

Chrome Introduces One-Time Permissions and Enhanced Safety Check for Safer Browsing 2024-09-18 at 12:16 By Google has announced that it’s rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives users more control over their data when surfing the internet and protects against online threats. “With the newest version of Chrome, you

The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world 2024-09-18 at 11:47 By Liam Proven As AI automates programming, it could be worth exploring the value of bespoke code Part 2  A thought experiment: If the computer business responds to commoditization and globalization like other manufacturing industries do, where does that leave programmers – and

Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users 2024-09-18 at 10:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Mac and Android loyals: you can look, but no calculation for now Office power users, rejoice: Python in Excel is now generally available – provided you have the right license and machine. … This article is an excerpt

GSMA Plans End-to-End Encryption for Cross-Platform RCS Messaging 2024-09-18 at 10:01 By The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it’s working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. “The next major milestone is for

New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet 2024-09-18 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won’t bother reading it The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architectures

China’s tech giants buy into Indonesia – just like US tech giants did in India 2024-09-18 at 09:03 By Laura Dobberstein GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake Chinese tech giant Alibaba showed it’s not just Meta, Google and Amazon that can use their financial heft to buy

Patch Issued for Critical VMware vCenter Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution 2024-09-18 at 09:02 By Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a heap-overflow vulnerability in

Transform what video intelligence can become with AI 2024-09-18 at 07:16 By Many valuable use cases beyond security monitoring exist, but they come with more considerations and require deeper collaboration.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware 2024-09-18 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged a man with creating and administering an app named Ghost that was allegedly

Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls 2024-09-18 at 03:47 By Thomas Claburn The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts.…

WhatsApp fix to make View Once chats actually disappear is beaten in less than a week 2024-09-18 at 03:31 By Iain Thomson View Forever, more like it, as Meta’s privacy feature again revealed to be futile with a little light hacking A fix deployed by Meta to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once