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Why Regulated Industries are Turning to Military-Grade Cyber Defenses 2024-06-14 at 14:46 By As cyber threats loom large and data breaches continue to pose increasingly significant risks. Organizations and industries that handle sensitive information and valuable assets make prime targets for cybercriminals seeking financial gain or strategic advantage.  Which is why many highly regulated sectors, […]

AI Octopus predicts results of Euro 2024: It isn’t looking good for England 2024-06-14 at 13:31 By Richard Speed Who needs a real live cephalopod? The Euro 2024 international football tournament gets underway today, and we’re delighted to report that AI has finally been turned into something useful in the form of a virtual pundit

How Apache Spark lit up the tech world and outshone its big data brethren 2024-06-14 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark The Register queries author Matei Zaharia on a decade of the project Interview  Big data is no longer hailed as the “new oil.” It has gone out of fashion, both in terms of hype and

ZKTeco Biometric System Found Vulnerable to 24 Critical Security Flaws 2024-06-14 at 11:16 By An analysis of a hybrid biometric access system from Chinese manufacturer ZKTeco has uncovered two dozen security flaws that could be used by attackers to defeat authentication, steal biometric data, and even deploy malicious backdoors. “By adding random user data to

North Korean Hackers Target Brazilian Fintech with Sophisticated Phishing Tactics 2024-06-14 at 10:16 By Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as the country’s emergence as an influential power has drawn the attention of cyber espionage groups. “North Korean government-backed actors have targeted

Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview 2024-06-14 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Wider release coming real soon – promise – after the Windows faithful give it a thrashing Microsoft has cancelled the wide release of Recall – the controversial tool for Copilot+ PCs that takes regular snapshots of a machine

Microsoft Delays AI-Powered Recall Feature for Copilot+ PCs Amid Security Concerns 2024-06-14 at 08:16 By Microsoft on Thursday revealed that it’s delaying the rollout of the controversial artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs. To that end, the company said it intends to shift from general availability preview available first in the Windows Insider

Pakistan punishes tax dodgers with new measures to ensure telcos cut off their mobile phones 2024-06-14 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Already doxxed and ordered disconnection for half a million of its own citizens suspected of not paying their share Pakistan has outlined measures to punish tax evaders by cutting off their mobile phone.… This

Security leaders respond to industry’s need for 225,000 professionals 2024-06-14 at 07:16 By Security leaders respond to recent data showing the cybersecurity industry needs 225,000 professionals. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The power of podcasts 2024-06-14 at 07:16 By From leadership advice to explorations of emerging security threats, guests on The Security Podcasts share career stories for the good of the industry. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Absolutely the most important list you will ever read! 2024-06-14 at 07:16 By Tips to help security leaders navigate endless Internet lists about leadership. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Japan’s space agency helps to target advertising with satellite photos of crops 2024-06-14 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood Some would say ads for cabbage are futile – can pics from space at least make them timely? Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and marketing agency Dentsu have developed a means to use snaps captured by satellites

Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended 2024-06-14 at 03:46 By Jessica Lyons ‘It’s not our job to find the culprits – That’s what we’re paying you for’ lawmaker scolds Brad Smith Lawmakers on Thursday grilled Microsoft president Brad Smith about the Windows giant’s businesses

US Space Force wanted $77M to reinforce GPS – and Congress shot it down 2024-06-14 at 01:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Can’t we do this another way, like without $1B over 5 years, House reps wonder A plan by America’s Space Force to harden GPS against spoofing attacks may be going nowhere: A request by the

Wells Fargo fires employees accused of faking keyboard activity to pretend to work 2024-06-14 at 00:16 By Matthew Connatser In a way, don’t we all hammer away on the keys to give the impression we’re busy. Er, just us? Wells Fargo fired a bunch of employees accused of pretending to work, by faking their keyboard

Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M 2024-06-13 at 23:01 By Thomas Claburn In this slightly more private era, your data ain’t as profitable as it once was Analysis  Oracle Advertising is shutting down, CEO Safra Catz said during the database goliath’s fiscal 2024 Q4 earnings call with Wall

World’s first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip 2024-06-13 at 22:16 By Matthew Connatser Might be more of a paper tiger given it runs at 2 GHz and has just 2 TOPS DeepComputing has announced a successor to its Roma laptop, which was the first notebook of its kind to

Google datacenters in Nevada to go full steam ahead with geothermal energy 2024-06-13 at 21:31 By Dan Robinson Part of Mountain View’s aim for carbon-free power by 2030 Google has signed a deal with NV Energy to help power its Nevada datacenters using geothermal energy under an arrangement the megacorp claims is more progressive than

X marks the spot where Twitter’s severance math doesn’t add up 2024-06-13 at 20:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Surely an everything app includes a working currency converter? A group of former Australian Twitter employees are reportedly being asked to return oversized severance checks seemingly because their ex-employer doesn’t understand how to convert currency.… This article is

Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin 2024-06-13 at 19:31 By Connor Jones 28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe An alleged cog in the Conti and LockBit ransomware machines is now in handcuffs after Ukrainian police raided his home this week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register