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Microsoft China staff can’t log on with an Android, so Redmond buys them iThings 2024-07-09 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Google’s absence creates software distribution issues not even mighty Microsoft can handle Microsoft China will provide staff with Apple devices so they can log on to the software giant’s systems.… This article is an excerpt […]

Scammers double-scam victims by offering to help recover from scams 2024-07-09 at 09:01 By Simon Sharwood Scum keep databases of the people they’ve already skimmed Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission has warned that scammers are targeting scam victims with fake offers to help them recover from scams.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Founder of Indian ride-share biz Ola calls for 70-hour work week 2024-07-09 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein ‘A generation will have to do penance’ says Bhavish Aggarwal Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavish Aggarwal – founder of Ola Cabs, Ole Electric and AI unicorn Ola Krutrim – doubled down on support for 70-hour work weeks during an

Trojanized jQuery Packages Found on npm, GitHub, and jsDelivr Code Repositories 2024-07-09 at 08:16 By Unknown threat actors have been found propagating trojanized versions of jQuery on npm, GitHub, and jsDelivr in what appears to be an instance of a “complex and persistent” supply chain attack. “This attack stands out due to the high variability

Unlocking innovation: 4 trends in access control technology 2024-07-09 at 07:16 By As access control technology continues to evolve, security leaders should pay attention to top trends and the opportunities they present. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China’s APT40 gang is ready to attack vulns within hours or days of public release. 2024-07-09 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood Lax patching and vulnerable small biz kit make life easy for Beijing’s secret-stealers Law enforcement agencies from eight nations, led by Australia, have issued an advisory that details the tradecraft used by China-aligned threat

China’s Moore Threads adds support for 10k GPU clusters 2024-07-09 at 03:32 By Tobias Mann Local GPU-maker’s kit still no match for Nvidia’s sanction-evading cards Chinese GPU vendor Moore Threads says its datacenter-focused AI systems can now support clusters of up to 10,000 accelerators – a tenfold increase from tech it offered last year.… This

Coders’ Copilot code-copying copyright claims crumble against GitHub, Microsoft 2024-07-09 at 02:31 By Matthew Connatser A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond – who did you think was going to win? Claims by developers that GitHub Copilot was unlawfully copying their code have largely been dismissed, leaving the engineers for now with just

Windows Notepad gets a spell check. Only took 41 years 2024-07-09 at 00:31 By Tobias Mann Purists needn’t worry – you can turn it off As text editors go, Microsoft’s Notepad has never been big on creature comforts. But after more than 41 years, Redmond has finally seen fit to bestow its humblest of utilities

Peloton faces lawsuit over claims it pedaled past privacy 2024-07-08 at 21:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Chat widget allegedly fed data to third party, which used it to train AI without telling customers Peloton is pedaling toward a court date after a California judge denied its bid to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the pandemic darling

Apple reverses course to approve Epic Games Store on iOS in EU 2024-07-08 at 20:16 By Richard Speed Arguments over buttons set to continue while European Commission looks on Apple performed an abrupt U-turn over the weekend to approve the Epic Games Store in the European Union.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

New APT Group “CloudSorcerer” Targets Russian Government Entities 2024-07-08 at 19:31 By A previously undocumented advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed CloudSorcerer has been observed targeting Russian government entities by leveraging cloud services for command-and-control (C2) and data exfiltration. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which discovered the activity in May 2024, the tradecraft adopted by the threat

EU Competition Commissioner hints at Nvidia GPU probe, refers to ‘huge bottleneck’ 2024-07-08 at 19:16 By Dan Robinson CUDA, woulda, shoulda be first port of call for AI slingers, but does it respect its own dominance? The European Union’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager reckons there is a “huge bottleneck” in the supply of Nvidia’s GPUs

Dark Web Malware Logs Expose 3,300 Users Linked to Child Abuse Sites 2024-07-08 at 18:31 By An analysis of information-stealing malware logs published on the dark web has led to the discovery of thousands of consumers of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), indicating how such information could be used to combat serious crimes. “Approximately 3,300

Internet Archive blames ‘environmental factors’ for overnight outages 2024-07-08 at 18:16 By Richard Speed Power failure rather than lawyers to blame for Wayback Machine wandering off The Internet Archive took a tumble overnight after “environmental factors” downed the Wayback Machine, leaving archive.org wobbling in a way that might bring a smile to the faces of

Patelco announces ransomware attack 2024-07-08 at 18:16 By Patelco Credit Union announced that on June 29, 2024, the company faced a ransomware attack. Hackers gained access to its systems and blocked access. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

New Ransomware-as-a-Service ‘Eldorado’ Targets Windows and Linux Systems 2024-07-08 at 17:46 By An emerging ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called Eldorado comes with locker variants to encrypt files on Windows and Linux systems. Eldorado first appeared on March 16, 2024, when an advertisement for the affiliate program was posted on the ransomware forum RAMP, Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said.

Microsoft forgets about SwiftKey’s support site 2024-07-08 at 17:16 By Richard Speed Injecting Copilot branding will not make TLS certificates auto-renew Another Microsoft certificate has expired, leaving SwiftKey users that are seeking support faced with an alarming certificate error.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

US-China chip wars ‘mainly ideological’ says ex-ASML boss 2024-07-08 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson And it’ll be decades before things settle down again Former ASML boss Peter Wennink says the US-China “chip wars” are mainly ideological in nature, and is warning it will likely take decades for the dispute to play out.… This article is

The Underdog of Cybersecurity: Uncovering Hidden Value in Threat Intelligence 2024-07-08 at 16:16 By David Broggy Threat Intelligence, or just TI, is sometimes criticized for possibly being inaccurate or outdated. However, there are compelling reasons to incorporate it into your cybersecurity defense strategy. Let’s present some ways to use TI effectively as part of your