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New MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – Patch ASAP! 2024-06-26 at 18:31 By A newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Software MOVEit Transfer is already seeing exploitation attempts in the wild shortly after details of the bug were publicly disclosed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5806 (CVSS score: 9.1), concerns an authentication bypass that […]

Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs 2024-06-26 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone User data is being slurped into Microsoft’s cloud via OneDrive folder backup without user permission.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050 2024-06-26 at 17:16 By Lindsay Clark Experts say ‘circular economy strategies’ could keep demand at 2015 levels Demand for raw materials to make electric vehicles will triple by 2050, while lithium-ion batteries could account for more than half the total resources needed for the auto

Batten down the hatches, it’s time to patch some more MOVEit bugs 2024-06-26 at 16:46 By Connor Jones Exploit attempts for ‘devastating’ vulnerabilities already underway Thought last year’s MOVEit hellscape was well and truly behind you? Unlucky, buster. We’re back for round two after Progress Software lifted the lid on fresh vulnerabilities affecting MOVEit Transfer

Atos in chaos as bailout talks unravel faster than you can say ‘restructuring’ 2024-06-26 at 16:01 By Dan Robinson Time for plan B (or will it be C?) Crisis-stricken Atos says the chosen bailout proposal from its largest shareholder has fallen through, just weeks after being confirmed, leaving the IT services biz to consider two

Professional Services Sector Under Attack – Trustwave SpiderLabs Report 2024 2024-06-26 at 16:01 By Recent research by Trustwave SpiderLabs, detailed in their newly published report “2024 Professional Services Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies,” reveals a surge in ransomware, supply chain, and technologically sophisticated attacks aimed at the professional services industry. This

Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models 2024-06-26 at 15:16 By Tobias Mann Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia’s H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it’s actually built Following ChatGPT’s debut in late 2022, GPUs – Nvidia’s in particular – have become synonymous with generative AI.…

Glastonbury to turn festivalgoer pee into eco-friendly fertilizer 2024-06-26 at 14:32 By Richard Currie Now that’s what you call a golden harvest As normies arrive at the world’s most middle-of-the-road festival today, by the end of the week Glastonbury will be awash with hundreds of thousands of gallons of chemical-laced urine.… This article is an

British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault ‘outside of our control’ 2024-06-26 at 14:01 By Richard Speed It was Vodafone, basically Exclusive  The Register can exclusively reveal that the “IT issue” behind the ongoing chaos at British Airways was due to problems with how its systems interact with the Vodafone platform.… This article is

Practical Guidance For Securing Your Software Supply Chain 2024-06-26 at 14:01 By The heightened regulatory and legal pressure on software-producing organizations to secure their supply chains and ensure the integrity of their software should come as no surprise. In the last several years, the software supply chain has become an increasingly attractive target for attackers

Chinese and N. Korean Hackers Target Global Infrastructure with Ransomware 2024-06-26 at 14:01 By Threat actors with suspected ties to China and North Korea have been linked to ransomware and data encryption attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure sectors across the world between 2021 and 2023. While one cluster of activity has been associated with

Apple Patches AirPods Bluetooth Vulnerability That Could Allow Eavesdropping 2024-06-26 at 14:01 By Apple has released a firmware update for AirPods that could allow a malicious actor to gain access to the headphones in an unauthorized manner. Tracked as CVE-2024-27867, the authentication issue affects AirPods (2nd generation and later), AirPods Pro (all models), AirPods Max,

AT&T wants Big Tech to help fund US internet access 2024-06-26 at 12:46 By Dan Robinson Affordable Connectivity funding coming to an end soon… AT&T thinks that internet-based technology giants should contribute to a fund that subsidizes access to telecoms and broadband services in the US, and wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to force

New Credit Card Skimmer Targets WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart Sites 2024-06-26 at 12:31 By Multiple content management system (CMS) platforms like WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart have been targeted by a new credit card web skimmer called Caesar Cipher Skimmer. A web skimmer refers to malware that is injected into e-commerce sites with the goal of

New Medusa Android Trojan Targets Banking Users Across 7 Countries 2024-06-26 at 11:45 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of an Android banking trojan called Medusa that has been used to target users in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. The new fraud campaigns, observed in May 2024 and

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 to receive support right up to end of Unix epoch 2024-06-26 at 11:31 By Liam Proven And there’s a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux As SUSE ascends its self-imposed ALP, this version may be the last of the fixed release cycle for openSUSE Leap.… This article is an excerpt

Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix 2024-06-26 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements Large language models can be made 50 times more energy efficient with alternative math and custom hardware, claim researchers

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man 2024-06-26 at 10:16 By Simon Sharwood Now, about that bill for the private jet that’s taking him home to Australia … Julian Assange is a free man.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Apple tells emulator developers it’s OK with retro games – not entire OSes 2024-06-26 at 09:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo We sure hope this won’t upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now A pair of developers have come away from encounters with Apple’s latest rules regarding video game emulators in

Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks 2024-06-26 at 08:31 By Laura Dobberstein Admits it’s not sure some clicks from from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten Yahoo! Japan will waive $189 million charged to advertisers after deciding they were fraudulently charged, the portal’s corporate