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Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished 2024-07-08 at 16:01 By Connor Jones Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims’ cryptography, the company confirmed today.… This article is […]

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout 2024-07-08 at 15:16 By Lindsay Clark Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose Troubled Birmingham City Council, which was declared effectively bankrupt last year owing in part to a disastrous Oracle implementation, has awarded the tech giant £10 million

Nearly 800,000 affected by children’s hospital ransomware attack 2024-07-08 at 15:16 By Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago was impacted by a ransomware attack.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Fraud guilty plea flies from Boeing to swerve courtroom over 737 Max crashes 2024-07-08 at 14:31 By Laura Dobberstein Attorney for families of victims files objection Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud charges related to deadly 737 Max crashes, according to a Sunday night court filing from the US Department of Justice

5 Key Questions CISOs Must Ask Themselves About Their Cybersecurity Strategy 2024-07-08 at 14:31 By Events like the recent massive CDK ransomware attack – which shuttered car dealerships across the U.S. in late June 2024 – barely raise public eyebrows anymore.  Yet businesses, and the people that lead them, are justifiably jittery. Every CISO knows

Cyber budgets year-over-year have increased by 59% 2024-07-08 at 14:16 By A new report finds that organizations are increasing their cyber budgets in order to keep pace with the shifting threat landscape. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Third time was the charm for SingleStore in the cloud, CEO says 2024-07-08 at 13:46 By Lindsay Clark Apache Iceberg support makes it a good option for a transactional layer over data lakes, he tells The Register SingleStore, the database that promises analytics and transactions on a single system, took three attempts to get its

Experts Warn of Mekotio Banking Trojan Targeting Latin American Countries 2024-07-08 at 13:31 By Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio (aka Melcoz). That’s according to findings from Trend Micro, which said it recently observed a surge in cyber attacks distributing the Windows malware. Mekotio, known to be

Fear of commodity chip flood sparks EU probe into China’s silicon ambitions 2024-07-08 at 12:46 By Dan Robinson They’re cranking ’em out like there’s no tomorrow The European Commission is said to be sounding out chipmakers in the region about China’s expanding production of commodity silicon, which has sparked concerns that it could flood the

Breaking the rules is in big tech’s blood – now it’s time to break the habit 2024-07-08 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That’s so last century Opinion  Microsoft’s journey through intellectual property has been a multi-year saga that makes Game of Thrones look like a haiku.…

Critical Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Popular Gogs Open-Source Git Service 2024-07-08 at 11:46 By Four unpatched security flaws, including three critical ones, have been disclosed in the Gogs open-source, self-hosted Git service that could enable an authenticated attacker to breach susceptible instances, steal or wipe source code, and even plant backdoors. The vulnerabilities, according to

Apple Removes VPN Apps from Russian App Store Amid Government Pressure 2024-07-08 at 10:01 By Apple removed a number of virtual private network (VPN) apps in Russia from its App Store on July 4, 2024, following a request by Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Russian news media reported. This includes the mobile apps of 25

Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers 2024-07-08 at 09:31 By Simon Sharwood Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems Buyers worried a Copilot+ PC based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X SoCs might not run software that matters to them

Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts 2024-07-08 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world since the

China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025 2024-07-08 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, – and cars China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow

A friendly guide to containerization for AI work 2024-07-07 at 18:46 By Tobias Mann Save the headaches, ship your dependencies Hands on  One of the biggest headaches associated with AI workloads is wrangling all of the drivers, runtimes, libraries, and other dependencies they need to run.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers 2024-07-06 at 19:46 By Thomas Claburn What’s in the box! No seriously, what’s in there that sets our wages Interview  Algorithmic wage discrimination, as described in an academic paper last year by UC Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, involves “the use of granular data to produce unpredictable,

Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card 2024-07-06 at 12:01 By Matthew Connatser After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino ‘must be stopped’ Apple has twice unfairly blocked Epic Games from opening its iOS app portal in the EU, the Fortnite maker claims, and thus is in

Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia ‘more effectively’ than Putin 2024-07-06 at 00:31 By Matthew Connatser Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that’s the way the Cook, he crumbles At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin’s internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple

FCC: T-Mobile US unit gave blind customer the runaround in massive tech support fail 2024-07-05 at 23:16 By Jude Karabus Assurance Wireless must sort out accessibility after handing customer a phone without a screen reader In January 2021, Kenneth Geaniton, a blind consumer who subscribed to the Lifeline service provided by T-Mobile US offshoot Assurance