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UK competition regulator’s cloud probe remedies have global implications 2024-08-21 at 11:33 By Dan Robinson Egress fees? Ticked. Spend discounts? Not yet. Software licensing? Might need to shape up, Microsoft Britain’s competition watchdog is scheduled to announce a provisional decision in the coming weeks on its examination into whether the major cloud players engage in

Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases 2024-08-21 at 10:48 By Simon Sharwood Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside – and a bigger bill than ever A US man has been sentenced to 81 months in jail for faking his own death by hacking government systems and

Chinese fast fashion companies Shein, Temu, escalate epic e-commerce squabble 2024-08-21 at 09:34 By Laura Dobberstein Fall-apart five-dollar fashion houses get their Spider-Man meme moment Shein, a Chinese purveyors of desperately cheap goods, has raised lurid claims its rival Temu in a new lawsuit.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

CERT-UA Warns of New Vermin-Linked Phishing Attacks with PoW Bait 2024-08-21 at 09:34 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of new phishing attacks that aim to infect devices with malware. The activity has been attributed to a threat cluster it tracks as UAC-0020, which is also known as Vermin. The

Atlassian CEO’s idea to build 4,000-kilometer extension cord plugged in 2024-08-21 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Giant solar farm in Australia will make ‘leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore Atlassian CEO Mike Atlassian Cannon-Brookes’s plan to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore has been approved by the land down under’s government.… This article

The integration security paradox: Strategies to protect data 2024-08-21 at 08:18 By Integration strategies and security threats evolve, so a comprehensive audit approach is essential.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

GiveWP WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Puts 100,000+ Websites at Risk 2024-08-21 at 08:01 By A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WordPress GiveWP donation and fundraising plugin that exposes more than 100,000 websites to remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-5932 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the plugin prior to

China’s chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations 2024-08-21 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein Think tank warns US and friends they can’t assume Beijing won’t catch up China’s chip design and fabrication capabilities lag significantly behind the US and its allies, according to a report from US think tank the

Authentication bypass discovered in Microsoft Entra ID 2024-08-21 at 07:17 By Security leaders weigh in on a recently revealed authentication bypass in Microsoft Entra ID.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Chipmaker Microchip reveals cyber attack whacked manufacturing capacity 2024-08-21 at 04:18 By Simon Sharwood Defense contractor gets hacked – what’s the worst that could happen US semiconductor manufacturing firm Microchip Technology has revealed an “unauthorized party disrupted the Company’s use of certain servers and some business operation.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all 2024-08-21 at 00:31 By Tobias Mann Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series In an apparent reversal, AMD has decided that its Ryzen 3000-series processors released in 2019 are actually worth patching against the recently disclosed SinkClose vulnerability.… This article is an excerpt

Writers sue Anthropic for feeding ‘stolen’ copyrighted work into Claude 2024-08-20 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets Anthropic was sued on Monday by three authors who claim the machine-learning lab unlawfully used their copyrighted work to train its Claude AI model.… This article is an excerpt

Detecting AWS Account Compromise: Key Indicators in CloudTrail Logs for Stolen API Keys 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By As cloud infrastructure becomes the backbone of modern enterprises, ensuring the security of these environments is paramount. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) still being the dominant cloud it is important for any security professional to know where to

Czech Mobile Users Targeted in New Banking Credential Theft Scheme 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By Mobile users in the Czech Republic are the target of a novel phishing campaign that leverages a Progressive Web Application (PWA) in an attempt to steal their banking account credentials. The attacks have targeted the Czech-based Československá obchodní banka (CSOB), as

Open source biz promises to slash bills with observability-as-a-service in the cloud 2024-08-20 at 22:16 By Richard Speed AWS first, others to follow VictoriaMetrics has become the latest open source company to offer a hosted product, claiming around five times the savings for customers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11’s altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission 2024-08-20 at 20:32 By Richard Speed Let’s hope the spacesuits hold up for extravehicular activity The Polaris Dawn mission to send humans to a 1,400 km orbit – higher than 1966’s Gemini 11 – is set for launch in less than a week.…

PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By Lindsay Clark Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database’s perceived weaknesses A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL’s weaknesses as an analytics database.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By A survey has revealed that 2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source