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UK and Canada’s data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach 2024-06-11 at 16:47 By Connor Jones Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year’s 23andMe data breach.… This article […]

Search & Spoof: Abuse of Windows Search to Redirect to Malware 2024-06-11 at 16:16 By Bernard Bautista Trustwave SpiderLabs has detected a sophisticated malware campaign that leverages the Windows search functionality embedded in HTML code to deploy malware. We found the threat actors utilizing a sophisticated understanding of system vulnerabilities and user behaviors. Let’s break

AI PC vendors gotta have their TOPS – but is this just the GHz wars all over again? 2024-06-11 at 16:01 By Tobias Mann As usual, things are more complicated than ‘bigger number better.’ Comment  For chipmakers, the AI PC has become a race to the TOPS – with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm each trying

Raspberry Pi stock surges after London IPO 2024-06-11 at 15:16 By Richard Speed Priced at £2.80, but goes beyond £3.90 in conditional trading Raspberry Pi’s IPO took place this morning on the London Stock Exchange. Shares were initially priced at £2.80 ($3.57), but they surged to £3.90 ($4.97) during early trading.… This article is an

The Paris Olympic games will likely present a high cyber risk 2024-06-11 at 15:16 By As the Paris Olympic games draw closer, security leaders warn that the event faces a high risk of targeted cyber incidents This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Top 10 Critical Pentest Findings 2024: What You Need to Know 2024-06-11 at 14:46 By One of the most effective ways for information technology (IT) professionals to uncover a company’s weaknesses before the bad guys do is penetration testing. By simulating real-world cyberattacks, penetration testing, sometimes called pentests, provides invaluable insights into an organization’s security

Atos gets a reprieve with restructure plan from Onepoint consortium 2024-06-11 at 14:31 By Dan Robinson Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them… Atos has opted for a bailout proposal led by its largest shareholder Onepoint to put the company on a firmer financial footing with the injection of capital and a

PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in 2024-06-11 at 13:46 By Paul Kunert Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill A Chromebook refresh looms despite Google trying to extend the life of laptops by offering a decade of service updates for models sold since 2021.…

Apple Integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 2024-06-11 at 13:46 By Apple has announced the launch of a “groundbreaking cloud intelligence system” called Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that’s designed for processing artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in a privacy-preserving manner in the cloud. The tech giant described PCC as the “most advanced

UK education department awards contract uplift to Horizon scandal-plagued Fujitsu 2024-06-11 at 12:31 By Lindsay Clark Japanese supplier gets £4.75M contract extension amid promise not to bid for govt work The UK’s Department for Education has awarded Japanese IT services supplier Fujitsu a £4.75 million ($6 million) contract, despite its promise not to bid for

China-Linked ValleyRAT Malware Resurfaces with Advanced Data Theft Tactics 2024-06-11 at 12:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an updated version of malware called ValleyRAT that’s being distributed as part of a new campaign. “In the latest version, ValleyRAT introduced new commands, such as capturing screenshots, process filtering, forced shutdown, and clearing Windows event logs,” Zscaler

Support, don’t micromanage, say researchers who find WFH made some of us neurotic 2024-06-11 at 11:46 By Paul Kunert Feeling empowerment and autonomy at work reportedly key when toiling remotely Many office workers no longer want to sacrifice their entire working week at their desk – the corporate altar of commerce – but for some,

Legendary Glastonbury farm turning bovine excreta into graphene 2024-06-11 at 10:34 By Matthew Connatser This is not BS, it’s cutting-edge material science Worthy Farm, host of the world-famous Glastonbury music festival, will provide local startup Levidian with cow manure to be transformed into graphene.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Arm Warns of Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability in Mali GPU Drivers 2024-06-11 at 10:16 By Arm is warning of a security vulnerability impacting Mali GPU Kernel Driver that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-4610, the use-after-free issue impacts the following products – Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver (all versions from

Snowflake Breach Exposes 165 Customers’ Data in Ongoing Extortion Campaign 2024-06-11 at 10:16 By As many as 165 customers of Snowflake are said to have had their information potentially exposed as part of an ongoing campaign designed to facilitate data theft and extortion, indicating the operation has broader implications than previously thought. Google-owned Mandiant, which

Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud 2024-06-11 at 09:34 By Simon Sharwood Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry Apple has revealed it created its own datacenter stack – servers using its in-house silicon and operating system – at its Worldwide Developer

VMware and Dell back together with fresh OEM agreement 2024-06-11 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging VMware by Broadcom has re-signed three key hardware vendors to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resale agreements.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Weapons detection in healthcare: A snapshot and guide 2024-06-11 at 07:18 By Security leader notes examples of intricate dance between security screeners, hospital entrants, and technology utilized at healthcare facilities. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Snowflake customers not using MFA are not unique – over 165 of them have been compromised 2024-06-11 at 06:31 By Jessica Lyons Mandiant warns criminal gang UNC5537, which may be friendly with Scattered Spider, is on the rampage An unknown financially motivated crime crew has swiped a “significant volume of records” from Snowflake customers’ databases

Cyber attack flattens Japanese vid-sharing site Niconico and others 2024-06-11 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Total rebuild needed after four days off the air Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days after a major cyber attack.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source