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New Nork-ish cyberespionage outfit uncovered after three years 2024-05-31 at 18:31 By Connor Jones Sector-agnostic group is after your data, wherever you are Infosec researchers revealed today a previously unknown cybercrime group that’s been on the prowl for three years and is behaving like some of the more dangerous cyber baddies under Kim Jong-Un’s watch.… […]

Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already? 2024-05-31 at 17:31 By Lindsay Clark The Reg talks to Donald Chamberlin, Michael Stonebraker and more about the legendary programming language Feature  In the fifty years since SQL was first proposed, it has become the dominant query language for working with relational databases. As

Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices 2024-05-31 at 17:31 By Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology (OT) devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. “These repeated attacks against OT devices emphasize the crucial need to improve the security posture of

Carbon Black: Here To Stay and Stronger Than Ever 2024-05-31 at 16:16 By Monica White Change hasn’t diluted Carbon Black’s potency–in fact, just the opposite. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Surging datacenter power demand slows the demise of US coal plants 2024-05-31 at 16:16 By Matthew Connatser Ongoing fossil fuel use means maybe it’s time to revise that idea that AI will kill us with robots Coal-generated energy in the US is set to stick around longer than previously expected, to fulfill increasing demand from

Recycling old copper wires could be worth billions for telcos 2024-05-31 at 15:32 By Matthew Connatser 800,000 metric tons of cabling is just lying there Increasingly redundant copper wires may be worth over $7 billion to telecommunications firms, should they take the trouble to recycle them.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

An intelligent application future hinges on using responsible AI 2024-05-31 at 15:16 By As enthusiasm for AI builds and regulation gains momentum, investing in AI responsibly is not just the right thing to do — it’s competitive.   This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Beyond Threat Detection – A Race to Digital Security 2024-05-31 at 15:16 By Digital content is a double-edged sword, providing vast benefits while simultaneously posing significant threats to organizations across the globe. The sharing of digital content has increased significantly in recent years, mainly via email, digital documents, and chat. In turn, this has created

Google to push ahead with Chrome’s ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest 2024-05-31 at 14:32 By Thomas Claburn Starting Monday, users will gradually be warned the end is near On Monday, June 3, 2024, some people using Beta, Dev, and Canary builds of Google’s Chrome browser will be presented with a warning banner when they access

Russian Hackers Target Europe with HeadLace Malware and Credential Harvesting 2024-05-31 at 14:01 By The Russian GRU-backed threat actor APT28 has been attributed as behind a series of campaigns targeting networks across Europe with the HeadLace malware and credential-harvesting web pages. APT28, also known by the names BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight,

Desperately seeking ICQ? It may shut down, but Nina could resurrect it 2024-05-31 at 13:46 By Liam Proven Multiple folks are working on FOSS servers for classic messaging apps Multiple independent efforts are underway to save ICQ from extinction… as well as MSN, AIM, Yahoo! and more.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

UK Surface owners can now take misbehaving laptops to Currys 2024-05-31 at 12:46 By Richard Speed Tell us what’s worse Reg readers: Microsoft support or taking your broken hardware into one of those stores UK owners of borked Surface laptops can now pop into their local Currys rather than deal with Microsoft’s own support channels

Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day 2024-05-31 at 11:46 By Liam Proven An extra-robust, novice-friendly distro, with local apps, that’s not ChromeOS EndlessOS 6 is a toughened and much-simplified immutable Debian 12 with a friendly GNOME-based desktop, aimed at kids, education, and novice users.… This article is an excerpt from The

OpenAI, Meta, TikTok Disrupt Multiple AI-Powered Disinformation Campaigns 2024-05-31 at 11:17 By OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations (IO) originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their

FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks 2024-05-31 at 09:32 By Jessica Lyons Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn’t like that one bit Cloudflare’s threat intel team claims to have thwarted a month-long phishing and espionage attack targeting Ukraine which it has attributed to Russia-aligned gang FlyingYeti.… This article is

Dell predicts 20 percent jump in memory and SSD prices later this year 2024-05-31 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Has already hiked prices to cope and is prepared to do it again while you wait for boxes with Nvidia inside Dell believes the cost of DRAM and solid state disks (SSDs) will jump by 15

IT infrastructure scared away buyers of failed e-commerce site 2024-05-31 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Whatever gear storied cycling site Wiggle used didn’t propel it to a successful sale after the biz hit bumps If there’s a MAMIL in your life – a Middle Aged Man in Lycra – you may have heard them lament

Living off the land in a victim’s network 2024-05-31 at 07:02 By Despite sophisticated threat and detection tools, cyber adversaries have proven that they are able to maintain a presence on a victim’s network.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Singapore to offer enterprises incentives to buy greener hardware 2024-05-31 at 04:46 By Laura Dobberstein and Simon Sharwood Tropical nation ends DC build hiatus and calls for energy optimization everywhere – even software Singapore will offer incentives aimed at encouraging enterprises to upgrade their hardware fleets, as part of a Green Data Centre Roadmap announced

Mystery attacker remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware update 2024-05-31 at 03:16 By Jessica Lyons Source and motive of ‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ attack unknown Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling them, according to security researchers.…