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Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China? 2024-08-08 at 07:01 By Laura Dobberstein Beijing’s first Starlink-slayers are in orbit, and buyers beyond the Great Firewall are on the agenda The first batch of satellites in China’s answer to Starlink – known as the Qianfan Constellation, sometimes also called G60 –

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Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away

Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away 2024-08-08 at 06:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo This guy showed the world how today – plus or minus some caveats Black Hat  Techniques to forcibly remove security patches from Windows machines so that fixed vulnerabilities are exploitable again were demonstrated this week.…

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Angstrom age angst ameliorated as ASML’s High NA EUV chipmaking kit delivers

Angstrom age angst ameliorated as ASML’s High NA EUV chipmaking kit delivers 2024-08-08 at 06:32 By Dan Robinson Imec tests show Dutch master etcher has markedly boosted transistor density Research org Imec claims it has demonstrated the viability of ASML’s next generation extreme UV technology for next generation chip manufacturing, showing off how it can

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Cloud storage lockers from Microsoft and Google used to store and spread state-sponsored malware

Cloud storage lockers from Microsoft and Google used to store and spread state-sponsored malware 2024-08-08 at 05:01 By Jessica Lyons Why run your own evil infrastructure when Big Tech offers robust tools hosted at trusted URLs? Black Hat  State-sponsored cyber spies and criminals are increasingly using legitimate cloud services to attack their victims, according to

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Samsung boosts bug bug bounty to a cool million for cracks of the Knox Vault subsystem

Samsung boosts bug bug bounty to a cool million for cracks of the Knox Vault subsystem 2024-08-08 at 04:31 By Iain Thomson Good luck, crackers: It’s an isolated processor and storage enclave, and top dollar only comes from a remote attack Samsung has dangled its first $1 million bug bounty for anyone who successfully compromises

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Devices with insecure SSH services are everywhere, say infosec duo

Devices with insecure SSH services are everywhere, say infosec duo 2024-08-08 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Serendipitous’ discovery may have you second guessing your appliances Black Hat  A funny thing happened to security researchers at attack surface management company runZero when they were digging into the xz backdoor earlier this year: They found a whole

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AMD’s latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback

AMD’s latest desktop CPUs feature lower prices yet again as Intel readies a fightback 2024-08-08 at 01:16 By Matthew Connatser Brand-new Ryzen 9000 processors are about 10% cheaper than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts AMD’s next generation of desktop CPUs launch from tomorrow, and they’ll feature lower prices than the last series.… This article is an

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Starliner latest: NASA outlines options to rescue Boeing pilots stuck on space station

Starliner latest: NASA outlines options to rescue Boeing pilots stuck on space station 2024-08-08 at 00:31 By Richard Speed Officials may turn to Elon’s SpaceX if Calamity Capsule proves too risky to return with crew NASA has shared more details on how it hopes to get Boeing’s stricken Starliner craft and its two test pilots

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Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign 2024-08-07 at 23:31 By Thomas Claburn Chamber of Progress pens open letter pressing billionaire to behave better amid UK riots Exclusive  Echoing objections to social-media fueled violence from the government of the United Kingdom and others, the Chamber of Progress,

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Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11 2024-08-07 at 22:01 By Richard Speed Bad news: They aren’t, and Windows 10 end of support is looming There is some good news for Microsoft on the Windows 11 enterprise adoption front as a survey of more than 750,000 Windows endpoints indicates that

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Your Windows updates can all be reversed, says security researcher

Your Windows updates can all be reversed, says security researcher 2024-08-07 at 21:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo And you thought BlackLotus was a pain in the neck Black Hat  Security researchers from SafeBreach have found what they say is a Windows downgrade attack that’s invisible, persistent, irreversible and maybe even more dangerous than last year’s BlackLotus

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AWS ‘Bucket Monopoly’ attacks could allow complete account takeover

AWS ‘Bucket Monopoly’ attacks could allow complete account takeover 2024-08-07 at 21:16 By Jessica Lyons Vulnerable services fixed by the cloud biz but open source projects still at risk Critical flaws across at least six AWS cloud services could have allowed attackers to execute remote code, steal data or even takeover a user’s account without

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Faulty instructions in Alibaba’s T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security

Faulty instructions in Alibaba’s T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security 2024-08-07 at 20:16 By Thomas Claburn Let’s get physical, physical … I don’t wanna hear your MMU talk Black Hat  Computer security researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found serious security flaws in some of Alibaba subsidiary

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Low orbit satellites for phone service may cause more light pollution

Low orbit satellites for phone service may cause more light pollution 2024-08-07 at 18:31 By Dan Robinson Radiance much greater than current models, suggests paper Astronomers and other stargazers have new cause for concern about light pollution following claims that Starlink’s latest satellites which support phone services may appear five times brighter in the sky

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Roundcube Webmail Flaws Allow Hackers to Steal Emails and Passwords

Roundcube Webmail Flaws Allow Hackers to Steal Emails and Passwords 2024-08-07 at 18:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of security flaws in the Roundcube webmail software that could be exploited to execute malicious JavaScript in a victim’s web browser and steal sensitive information from their account under specific circumstances. “When a victim views a

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