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Chinese national cuffed on charges of running ‘likely the world’s largest botnet ever’ 2024-05-30 at 03:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs US authorities have arrested the alleged administrator of what FBI director Christopher Wray has described as “likely the world’s largest botnet […]

Miscreants claim they’ve snatched 560M people’s info from Ticketmaster 2024-05-30 at 02:16 By Jessica Lyons All that data allegedly going for a song on revived BreachForums Ticketmaster is believed to have had its IT breached by cybercriminals who claim to have stolen 1.3TB of data on 560 million of the corporation’s customers – and are

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive 2024-05-29 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder The Internet Archive has been under a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since Sunday, and is trying to keep services going.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

AI chip sales predicted to jump by a third this year – then cool off 2024-05-29 at 22:46 By Matthew Connatser Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware Gartner is predicting a 33 percent rise in revenue generated by AI chip sales in 2024 versus 2023.…

Two big computer vision papers boost prospect of safer self-driving vehicles 2024-05-29 at 22:16 By Lindsay Clark New chip and camera technology bring closer potential of hands-free road time Like nuclear fusion and jet-packs, the self-driving car is a long-promised technology that has stalled for years – yet armed with research, boffins think they have

Activist investor pressures Texas Instruments to stop spending cash on fabs 2024-05-29 at 21:16 By Matthew Connatser Thinking about tripling capacity by 2030? Start thinking about our returns… Notorious tech investment firm Elliott Management has penned a letter to Texas Instruments urging the company to change course on its aggressive plan to boost manufacturing capacity.…

Cybercriminals Abuse StackOverflow to Promote Malicious Python Package 2024-05-29 at 20:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new malicious Python package that has been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository to facilitate cryptocurrency theft as part of a broader campaign. The package in question is pytoileur, which has been downloaded 316 times

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 released as end of the RHEL 8 line looms 2024-05-29 at 20:16 By Liam Proven Some derivatives haven’t got there yet, but it’s time to get a move on… Two notable North American Linux distributors have emitted the last release in their 8.x series – although other vendors

Colorado governor signs ‘best in the world’ right-to-repair law 2024-05-29 at 19:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo But the repairability war isn’t over, says iFixit’s Kyle Wiens A right to repair rule just signed into law in Colorado is earning praise from advocates for making the area one of the best jurisdictions for electronics tinkerers and DIYers.…

Security leaders discuss LLMs that may present security concerns 2024-05-29 at 19:16 By A recent study suggests that leading LLMs may come with security concerns, and security leaders are sharing their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Check Point Warns of Zero-Day Attacks on its VPN Gateway Products 2024-05-29 at 18:46 By Check Point is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its Network Security gateway products that threat actors have exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-24919, the issue impacts CloudGuard Network, Quantum Maestro, Quantum Scalable Chassis, Quantum Security Gateways, and Quantum

3% of public sector applications are flaw free 2024-05-29 at 18:32 By Public sector security debt and application risk management was analyzed in a recent report by Veracode, finding 3% of applications are flaw free. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Ex-OpenAI board member accuses Sam Altman of ‘outright lying’ 2024-05-29 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Claims she and other members ‘learned about ChatGPT on Twitter’ OpenAI’s board was only aware that ChatGPT had been launched after reading about it on Twitter, according to a former board member.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

The future of the modern CISO 2024-05-29 at 18:16 By In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Chaim Mazal, Chief Security Officer at Gigamon, we discuss the challenges modern day CISOs face with evolving regulatory requirements and compliance standards. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Brazilian Banks Targeted by New AllaKore RAT Variant Called AllaSenha 2024-05-29 at 18:16 By Brazilian banking institutions are the target of a new campaign that distributes a custom variant of the Windows-based AllaKore remote access trojan (RAT) called AllaSenha. The malware is “specifically aimed at stealing credentials that are required to access Brazilian bank accounts,

Neuralink seeks 3 more quadriplegic patients for its brain control interface trial 2024-05-29 at 17:46 By Richard Speed Sign up for your turn with the R1 robot if you qualify Elon Musk’s Neuralink is recruiting another three subjects for its brain implant study.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

AI smartphones must balance promise against hype and privacy concerns 2024-05-29 at 17:16 By Dan Robinson Color us shocked: 66% of Apple users said they wouldn’t switch for any reason A coming wave of AI-capable smartphones may let vendors distinguish their devices via unique features and user experience, but it also poses challenges for privacy

Why RISC-V must get its messaging right on open standard vs open source 2024-05-29 at 16:32 By Matthew Connatser It’s the difference between export limits on specific chips – and a problematic blanket ban Feature  The possibility of America placing sanctions on RISC-V has increased the pressure on RV’s governing body and its partners to

North Korea building cash reserves using ransomware, video games 2024-05-29 at 16:16 By Connor Jones Microsoft says Kim’s hermit nation is pivoting to latest tools as it evolves in cyberspace A brand-new cybercrime group that Microsoft ties to North Korea is tricking targets using fake job opportunities to launch malware and ransomware, all for financial

Evidence mounts that Venus has multiple active volcanoes 2024-05-29 at 15:16 By Lindsay Clark Data from 1990s adds to previous modelling to show lava-spewers widespread on second planet from Sun New research on data collected in the 1990s shows that on Venus, volcanoes are likely to be both more active and widespread than scientists previously