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Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak 2024-06-04 at 05:31 By Jessica Lyons Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Analysis  Hudson Rock, citing legal pressure from Snowflake, has removed its online report that claimed miscreants broke into the cloud storage and analytics giant’s underlying systems and stole data from […]

Meta algorithms push Black people more toward expensive universities, study finds 2024-06-04 at 03:16 By Thomas Claburn Just as we saw with housing, Facebook giant’s advertising system seems to treat Whites and POC differently Special report  Meta’s algorithms for presenting educational ads show signs of racial bias, according to researchers from Princeton University and the

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim’s insider trading settlement 2024-06-04 at 02:16 By Thomas Claburn Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC A California federal court has entered a final judgment in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s insider trading case against billionaire Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder

HP-Autonomy: Attorneys wrap up arguments in Mike Lynch’s stateside fraud trial 2024-06-04 at 01:31 By Matthew Connatser And we await the jury’s verdict Closing arguments were delivered today in Mike Lynch’s criminal fraud trial in San Francisco, over a decade after the HP/Autonomy merger that provoked the whole kerfuffle.… This article is an excerpt from

NIST turns to IT consultants to clear National Vulnerability Database backlog 2024-06-04 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Aims to get CVE logjam cleared by the end of FY 24 Facing a growing backlog of reported flaws, NIST has extended a commercial contract with an outside consultancy to help it get on top of its National

Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records ‘stolen from background check firm’ 2024-06-03 at 22:46 By Jessica Lyons Turns out opting out actually works? Billions of records detailing people’s personal information may soon be dumped online after being allegedly obtained from a Florida firm that handles background checks and other requests for folks’ private info.…

Arm CEO aims to conquer half the Windows world in 5 years 2024-06-03 at 22:16 By Matthew Connatser That’s probably wishful thinking, say chip analysts Computex  Achieving a 50 percent market share among Windows PCs within five years is on the cards for Arm, according to CEO Rene Haas.… This article is an excerpt from

Windows 11’s Recall feature is on by default on Copilot+ PCs 2024-06-03 at 21:31 By Richard Speed Disabling the AI snapshotter requires a trip into Settings for ordinary users Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is enabled by default during Windows setup and users must delve into Windows Settings to turn it off.… This article is an

Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check 2024-06-03 at 20:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they’re taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts Miniature nuclear reactors promise a future filled with local, clean, safe zero-carbon energy, but those promises quickly melt when confronted with reality, say

Arm chief exec scored $70M in New York IPO bonanza 2024-06-03 at 19:46 By Dan Robinson Brit chip design outfit sets sights on dominating AI market Arm chief exec Rene Haas netted himself a cool $70.1 million last year, becoming a major beneficiary of the company’s IPO in New York.… This article is an excerpt

49% of organizations feel somewhat prepared to handle a breach 2024-06-03 at 19:31 By A report found that insufficient or ineffective cybersecurity training and resources are the two biggest items missing from a cybersecurity approach. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

A new malicious email campaign uses piano-themed scams to lure targets 2024-06-03 at 19:04 By Piano-themed messages are being sent to lure targets into falling for an email scam.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft to spend $3.2B on expanding cloud and AI in green energy-rich Sweden 2024-06-03 at 18:47 By Matthew Connatser Budget to be blown on construction and 20K GPUs among other things in the next 2 years Just weeks after reporting a hike in carbon dioxide emissions for 2023, Microsoft says it will invest $3.2 billion

NYSE technical error sends stocks tumbling 2024-06-03 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Exchange said the problem involves limit bands designed to prevent volatility breaking news  A glitch at the New York Stock Exchange has caused several high-profile stocks to rapidly lose value before being locked from trading.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Russia takes gold for disinformation as Olympics approach 2024-06-03 at 18:01 By Connor Jones Featuring Tom Cruise deepfakes and multiple made-up terrorism threats Still throwing toys out the pram over its relationship with international sport, Russia is engaged in a multi-pronged disinformation campaign against the Olympic Games and host nation France that’s intensifying as the

Authorities Ramp Up Efforts to Capture the Mastermind Behind Emotet 2024-06-03 at 17:32 By Law enforcement authorities behind Operation Endgame are seeking information related to an individual who goes by the name Odd and is allegedly the mastermind behind the Emotet malware.  Odd is also said to go by the nicknames Aron, C700, Cbd748, Ivanov

Researchers Uncover RAT-Dropping npm Package Targeting Gulp Users 2024-06-03 at 17:32 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new suspicious package uploaded to the npm package registry that’s designed to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) on compromised systems. The package in question is glup-debugger-log, which targets users of the gulp toolkit by masquerading as a

US standards agency reports back on just how good age verification software is 2024-06-03 at 17:02 By Richard Speed Getting better, but more work needed The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has examined age estimation software and concluded that it has improved but still needs work.… This article is an excerpt from The

Microsoft could be about to write a fat check to stave off cloud antitrust complaint 2024-06-03 at 16:33 By Richard Speed ‘No agreement has been reached,’ Euro cloud lobby insists Microsoft is reportedly preparing to ink a multimillion-euro deal with cloud lobbying group CISPE to make an EU antitrust complaint go away.… This article is

Defeating current DNS-based attacks 2024-06-03 at 16:16 By Domain name systems (DNS) has been undergirding the internet for more than four decades — and still it’s a daily pathway for cyberattacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source