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Building digital trust with ISACA’s framework 2024-05-13 at 07:16 By In today’s digital landscape, organizations must navigate a complex web of challenges, from cybersecurity threats and data privacy concerns to the integration of emerging technologies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Ransomware negotiator weighs in on the extortion payment debate with El Reg 2024-05-12 at 23:16 By Jessica Lyons As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs Interview  Ransomware hit an all-time high last year, with more than 60 criminal gangs listing at least 4,500 victims – and these infections don’t show any signs

US semiconductor building boom means staff shortages and talent slipping away 2024-05-12 at 16:46 By Matthew Connatser McKinsey’s solution? Reach out to middle schoolers The US semiconductor industry is said to be struggling to hire as well as retain staff as the country cranks up its chipmaking capacity to reduce its reliance on foreign supplies.…

What’s with AI boffins strapping GoPros to toddlers? We take a closer look 2024-05-12 at 13:30 By Tobias Mann Turns out the See ‘n Say folks might have been on to something AI researchers looking for better ways to train large language models are turning to the masters of language acquisition – children – to

Critical infrastructure security will stay poor unless everyone pulls together 2024-05-11 at 20:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what’s needed to defend vital networks Interview  Take a glance at the cybersecurity headlines of late, and you’ll see a familiar phrase that keeps cropping up: Critical infrastructure. … This article is an excerpt

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real? 2024-05-11 at 14:31 By Thomas Claburn Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed Reddit was sued by an unhappy advertiser who claims that internet giga-forum sold ads but provided no way to verify that real people were responsible

FIN7 Hacker Group Leverages Malicious Google Ads to Deliver NetSupport RAT 2024-05-11 at 10:48 By The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7 has been observed leveraging malicious Google ads spoofing legitimate brands as a means to deliver MSIX installers that culminate in the deployment of NetSupport RAT. “The threat actors used malicious websites to impersonate well-known brands, including AnyDesk, WinSCP, BlackRock,

German plod defend Tesla gigafactory from eco-warriors 2024-05-11 at 10:31 By Matthew Connatser Elon Musk wonders why so many sour Krauts Attempts by climate protesters to storm Tesla’s Berlin gigafactory were foiled by German police on Friday, with 16 arrests made.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

OpenAI insists it’s not launching a search engine nor GPT-5 on Monday 2024-05-11 at 03:16 By Thomas Claburn Sheesh, you just can’t trust anything on the internet, huh? OpenAI, the maker of many chatbots and taker of much Microsoft money, denies it’s planning to unveil a web search engine on Monday.… This article is an

SpaceX set to literally rock Florida with more and bigger Starship launches 2024-05-11 at 02:31 By Richard Speed Of course the FAA wants a look at the environmental impact of Musk’s plans SpaceX’s Starship is coming to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida – and its plan to use the launch facility means the Federal

Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory 2024-05-11 at 01:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Musk’s motor biz? Monitoring labor activists? Surely not! The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Tesla back to the hearing chamber, this time to settle whether it interfered with the organizing rights of employees at its factory in Buffalo,

Look to the skies this weekend as solar storms strike Earth 2024-05-11 at 00:46 By Matthew Connatser Northern Lights may be visible way further south than usual thanks to outbursts from our Sun Video  The US National Weather Service has issued a warning that a G4 solar storm will lash Earth from Friday until Sunday.…

Iran most likely to launch destructive cyber-attack against US – ex-Air Force intel analyst 2024-05-11 at 00:16 By Jessica Lyons But China’s the most technologically advanced Interview  China remains the biggest cyber threat to the US government, America’s critical infrastructure, and its private-sector networks, the nation’s intelligence community has assessed.… This article is an excerpt

Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel’s CPU dominance 2024-05-10 at 23:31 By Dan Robinson That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research Intel continues to rule the roost in the PC chip market, but AMD is gaining ground in server, desktop, and mobile, according to the latest figures from Mercury Research.…

Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row 2024-05-10 at 22:31 By Matthew Connatser Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones The US smartphone market registered yet another year-over-year decline in shipments in the first calendar quarter, this time down

Cybercriminals hit jackpot as 500k+ Ohio Lottery lovers lose out on their personal data 2024-05-10 at 21:31 By Connor Jones Not a lotto luck for these powerball hunters More than half a million gamblers with a penchant for powerballs will be receiving some fairly unwelcome news very soon, if not already, as cybercriminals have made

Dream Chaser mini-shuttle set to take flight at last 2024-05-10 at 20:16 By Richard Speed Spaceplane to be shipped to Kennedy Space Center for launch on a Vulcan Centaur Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane is finally set to launch in 2024 after completing its latest set of tests at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility.… This

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 served on Apple Silicon 2024-05-10 at 19:16 By Liam Proven First big update of the go-to Linux for newer Macs Lagging the mainstream edition by a couple of weeks, the Asahi-flavored version of Fedora 40 is here – redolent with KDE Plasma 6.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

North Korean Hackers Deploy New Golang Malware ‘Durian’ Against Crypto Firms 2024-05-10 at 18:31 By The North Korean threat actor tracked as Kimsuky has been observed deploying a previously undocumented Golang-based malware dubbed Durian as part of highly-targeted cyber attacks aimed at South Korean cryptocurrency firms. “Durian boasts comprehensive backdoor functionality, enabling the execution of delivered commands,

Microsoft’s Brad Smith summoned by Homeland Security committee over ‘cascade’ of infosec failures 2024-05-10 at 18:16 By Connor Jones Major intrusions by both China and Russia leave a lot to be answered for The US government wants to make Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith, the latest tech figurehead to field questions from a