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Qualcomm bullish on AI, teases flagship platform coming in October 2024-08-01 at 16:31 By Dan Robinson Chip outfit boosted by Chinese market, but goals for smartphones, PCs are ambitious Qualcomm is confident its bet on AI in phones and Arm PCs will pay off, buoyed by more than 50 percent growth in revenue from Chinese […]

New Android Banking Trojan BingoMod Steals Money, Wipes Devices 2024-08-01 at 16:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new Android remote access trojan (RAT) called BingoMod that not only performs fraudulent money transfers from the compromised devices but also wipes them in an attempt to erase traces of the malware. Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy, which

Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust’s TLS certificates 2024-08-01 at 15:46 By Connor Jones Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority Mozilla is following in Google Chrome’s footsteps in officially distrusting Entrust as a root certificate authority (CA) following what it says was a protracted period of compliance failures.…

Security leaders respond to a sophisticated SMS stealing campaign 2024-08-01 at 15:16 By Research has unveiled a sophisticated campaign stealing SMS messages.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

NASA pops repair kit in the mail so astronauts can fix leaky ISS telescope 2024-08-01 at 14:31 By Richard Speed Upcoming spacewalk should help NICER see more nicely NASA is preparing to launch a repair kit to the International Space Station (ISS) for a telescope that was never designed to be tinkered with by astronauts.…

Obfuscation: There Are Two Sides To Everything 2024-08-01 at 14:31 By How to detect and prevent attackers from using these various techniques Obfuscation is an important technique for protecting software that also carries risks, especially when used by malware authors. In this article, we examine obfuscation, its effects, and responses to it. What Is Obfuscation?

Microsoft services partly down Down Under for Kiwi users 2024-08-01 at 13:46 By Richard Speed Maybe time to play the cloud hokey cokey? You put your workload in. You take your workload out… Microsoft Azure went down for customers in New Zealand earlier today, taking with it parts of Microsoft 365 and bite-sized chunks of

Google Chrome Adds App-Bound Encryption to Protect Cookies from Malware 2024-08-01 at 13:01 By Google has announced that it’s adding a new layer of protection to its Chrome browser through what’s called app-bound encryption to prevent information-stealing malware from grabbing cookies on Windows systems. “On Windows, Chrome uses the Data Protection API (DPAPI) which protects

Beetle mania: How bugs are inspiring the next gen of robot aviators 2024-08-01 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Deploying and folding wings without power might be useful in a tight spot The rhinoceros beetle turns out to be an unlikely source of engineering inspiration for tiny flying robots that can fold their wings when resting

Linux updates with an undo function? Some distros have that 2024-08-01 at 11:31 By Liam Proven Snapshots, failover, recovery, and uninstallation on a plate The big names mostly can’t yet, but some lesser-known Linux distributions offer the ability to undo updates and recover from damage, even automatically.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

UK court rules in Intel’s favor in R2 Semi power patent case 2024-08-01 at 10:46 By Tobias Mann Legal woes are still ongoing in Italy, France, and Germany A UK High Court has sided with Intel in a multinational patent dispute brought by R2 Semiconductor alleging the x86 giant infringed on its voltage regulation tech.…

Facebook Ads Lead to Fake Websites Stealing Credit Card Information 2024-08-01 at 10:16 By Facebook users are the target of a scam e-commerce network that uses hundreds of fake websites to steal personal and financial data using brand impersonation and malvertising tricks. Recorded Future’s Payment Fraud Intelligence team, which detected the campaign on April 17,

Arm’s lackluster Q2 outlook overshadows strong Q1 revenue growth 2024-08-01 at 09:46 By Tobias Mann Execs blame gap in licensing revenues for lost momentum, while hawking AI Brit chip design champ Arm posted its fourth consecutive quarter of growth on Wednesday with Q1 revenues up 39 percent year-over-year to $939 million and profits of $233

Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency 2024-08-01 at 09:16 By Simon Sharwood Meanwhile, US apparently considers further AI hardware sanctions Germany’s government has named China-controlled actors as the perpetrators of a 2021 cyber attack on the Federal Office of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) – the official mapping agency.… This article

Xen hypervisor quadruples its possible core count for version 4.19 2024-08-01 at 08:31 By Simon Sharwood Pesky test infrastructure woes seem to be solved, too The Xen Project has delivered a new cut of its open source hypervisor.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Infosys denies it owes $4 billion in taxes to India 2024-08-01 at 07:31 By Laura Dobberstein Taxman disagrees with the outfit that built the tax portal IT services giant Infosys is facing a demand for almost $4 billion in tax demand from Indian state of Karnataka, relating to expenses incurred by its overseas branches.… This

Human error and BEC are a prominent sources of payment fraud 2024-08-01 at 07:16 By A recent survey reveals the top sources of business payment fraud. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Meta to boost training infrastructure for Llama 4 tenfold and maybe deliver it next year 2024-08-01 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood Sweet sweet GenAI money not yet flowing, Zuck reckons other ML efforts are paying off Meta has told investors generative AI won’t bring it revenue this year, but that the massive investments it’s planning

Superclusters too big, but single servers too small? Oracle offers AI Goldilocks zone 2024-08-01 at 04:16 By Matthew Connatser Adds L40 bare metal option to the O-Cloud, plus A100 and H100 VMs. And teases a GH200 beast Oracle has created a pair of for-rent AI infrastructure options aimed at medium-scale AI training and inference workloads

Ransomware infection cuts off blood supply to 250 hospitals 2024-08-01 at 02:46 By Jessica Lyons Scumbags go for the jugular A ransomware attack against blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, which services more than 250 American hospitals, has “significantly reduced” the org’s ability to take, test, and distribute blood.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View