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Singapore’s banks to ditch texted one-time passwords 2024-07-12 at 06:31 By Laura Dobberstein Accessibility be damned, preventing phishing is the priority After around two decades of allowing one-time passwords (OTPs) delivered by text message to assist log ins to bank accounts in Singapore, the city-state will abandon the authentication technique.… This article is an excerpt […]

SoftBank buys struggling UK AI chipmaker Graphcore 2024-07-12 at 05:31 By Simon Sharwood Potential for combo with Arm tantalizes Japan’s SoftBank, which owns chip designer Arm, has acquired UK chipmaker Graphcore for an unspecified sum.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

China’s APT41 crew adds a stealthy malware loader and fresh backdoor to its toolbox 2024-07-12 at 04:46 By Jessica Lyons Meet DodgeBox, son of StealthVector Chinese government-backed cyber espionage gang APT41 has very likely added a loader dubbed DodgeBox and a backdoor named MoonWalk to its malware toolbox, according to cloud security service provider Zscaler’s

‘Gay furry hackers’ say they’ve disbanded after raiding Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation 2024-07-12 at 03:31 By Jessica Lyons Ultra-conservative org funnily enough not ready to turn the other cheek After claiming to break into a database belonging to The Heritage Foundation, and then leaking 2GB of files belonging to the ultra-conservative think tank, the hacktivist

Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production 2024-07-12 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Ice ICE, baby The Biden administration’s electric vehicle ambitions are getting another boost, this time in the form of $1.7 billion in public funding to convert 11 at-risk and shuttered auto manufacturing plants into electric vehicle (EV)

Trump threatens to send Meta’s Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president 2024-07-11 at 22:46 By Matthew Connatser If you were wondering how the US White House race is going in 2024, it’s going like this… Florida Man Donald Trump has said that if elected President of the United States again, he will jail so-called

OpenSSH bug leaves RHEL 9 and the RHELatives vulnerable 2024-07-11 at 22:31 By Liam Proven Newly discovered flaw affects OpenSSH 8.7 and 8.8 daemon The founder of Openwall has discovered a new signal handler race condition in the core sshd daemon used in RHEL 9.x and its various offshoots.… This article is an excerpt from

With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain’t selling like they used to 2024-07-11 at 21:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo And the AI PC revolution probably won’t help, we’re told Owners of Apple Mac devices simply aren’t buying new hardware as quickly as they used to. … This article is an excerpt from The

FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit 2024-07-11 at 20:16 By Dan Robinson Just 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reiterated to Congress that more cash is needed if smaller broadband providers are to be compensated for

Former Autonomy CFO banned from chartered accounting group until 2038 2024-07-11 at 19:16 By Matthew Connatser Sushovan Hussain’s failure in 2020 to appeal his 2018 fraud conviction in the US means he won’t be a member of ICAEW for 20 years The expulsion of Sushovan Hussain, Autonomy’s former CFO, from a chartered accountant organization is

Unleashing the potential of investigative techniques 2024-07-11 at 19:16 By In the realm of executive protection, the necessity to expect and defuse potential threats is paramount.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Palo Alto Networks Patches Critical Flaw in Expedition Migration Tool 2024-07-11 at 18:46 By Palo Alto Networks has released security updates to address five security flaws impacting its products, including a critical bug that could lead to an authentication bypass. Cataloged as CVE-2024-5910 (CVSS score: 9.3), the vulnerability has been described as a case of

60 New Malicious Packages Uncovered in NuGet Supply Chain Attack 2024-07-11 at 18:46 By Threat actors have been observed publishing a new wave of malicious packages to the NuGet package manager as part of an ongoing campaign that began in August 2023, while also adding a new layer of stealth to evade detection. The fresh

Palantir, Oracle cosy up to offer Karp firm’s tech across Big Red’s cloud 2024-07-11 at 18:16 By Lindsay Clark Foundry and AI plaform available in OCI Palantir and Oracle are hooking up to promote the US spy-tech company’s technology on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Google: We’re still working to defeat Microsoft’s ‘anticompetitive’ cloud policy 2024-07-11 at 17:31 By Paul Kunert Yesterday’s settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn’t ‘fool’ you, says Alphabet arm’s cloud boss Google says Microsoft’s confidential settlement with a group of European cloud providers is merely about using its financial muscle to make complaints about

Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people’s data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account 2024-07-11 at 16:31 By Connor Jones Letters from CISO Ethan Steiger suggest the data related to job applications Advance Auto Parts’ CISO just revealed for the first time the number of individuals affected when criminals broke into its Snowflake instance –

European Commission accepts Apple’s ‘tap and go’ promises 2024-07-11 at 15:46 By Richard Speed Makes third-party wallets getting iOS NFC access a ‘legally binding’ thing Apple has avoided a potential hefty fine and an antitrust case in Europe after making concessions that include opening up access to iPhone hardware needed for “tap and go” applications.…

Chinese APT41 Upgrades Malware Arsenal with DodgeBox and MoonWalk 2024-07-11 at 15:46 By The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group codenamed APT41 is suspected to be using an “advanced and upgraded version” of a known malware called StealthVector to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MoonWalk. The new variant of StealthVector – which is also