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FYI… Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world’s electricity in 2023 2024-05-08 at 20:46 By Matthew Connatser It ain’t all sunshine and windmills – and guess who’s in the lead? China Thirty percent of the world’s electricity in 2023 was generated by renewable energy sources, according to a think tank.… This article is an […]

Transport watchdog’s patience wears thin as Tesla Autopilot remedies may not be enough 2024-05-08 at 20:01 By Richard Speed Crashes continue even with recall fixes in place The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has written to Tesla as the company’s electric cars keep crashing despite a recall to fix problems with the Autopilot

CISA boss: Secure code is the ‘only way to make ransomware a shocking anomaly’ 2024-05-08 at 19:16 By Jessica Lyons And it would seriously inconvenience the Chinese and Russians, too RSAC  There’s a way to vastly reduce the scale and scope of ransomware attacks plaguing critical infrastructure, according to CISA director Jen Easterly: Make software

NASA’s planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work 2024-05-08 at 18:17 By Richard Speed No more stress for TESS NASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

New Spectre-Style ‘Pathfinder’ Attack Targets Intel CPU, Leak Encryption Keys and Data 2024-05-08 at 18:01 By Researchers have discovered two novel attack methods targeting high-performance Intel CPUs that could be exploited to stage a key recovery attack against the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The techniques have been collectively dubbed Pathfinder by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego,

A SaaS Security Challenge: Getting Permissions All in One Place  2024-05-08 at 18:01 By Permissions in SaaS platforms like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft 365 are remarkably precise. They spell out exactly which users have access to which data sets. The terminology differs between apps, but each user’s base permission is determined by their role, while additional permissions may

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a ‘big deal’ 2024-05-08 at 17:47 By Dan Robinson So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market LPCAMM2 memory is getting the thumbs up from the team at iFixit, which hailed it as a return to the upgradeable laptop

One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800k people 2024-05-08 at 17:17 By Connor Jones Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia’s higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim

Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last 2024-05-08 at 16:48 By Richard Speed Administrators, start your engines Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the fate of on-premises Exchange, and administrators will need to move quickly to keep their servers supported.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink 2024-05-08 at 16:16 By Lindsay Clark Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies Amazon and printer manufacturer Seiko Epson have filed a joint action against firms in Turkey and the UK which they claim sold counterfeit printer

Tesla devotee tests Cybertruck safety with his own finger – and fails 2024-05-08 at 15:46 By Richard Currie Faith in frunk flunks We know that Tesla Cybertruck owners are very special, and their mothers love them very much, but perhaps the most special of all is the one who “broke” his finger attempting to demonstrate

Google Cloud misconfiguration takes down Australian fund for a week 2024-05-08 at 15:16 By Richard Speed That pesky ‘previously unknown software bug’ strikes again Australian superannuation fund UniSuper is lumbering back to life after an “unprecedented occurrence” at Google Cloud knocked its systems offline.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

“Selfie spoofing” scams are growing in popularity 2024-05-08 at 15:16 By There has been an increase in “selfie spoofing” scams, or scams in which a fraud actor takes a target’s selfie in order to authenticate a stolen identity and open fraudulent accounts. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View

UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack 2024-05-08 at 14:31 By Connor Jones China vehemently denies involvement UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to “malign” forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel.… This

The Fundamentals of Cloud Security Stress Testing 2024-05-08 at 14:16 By ״Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs,” said John Lambert from Microsoft, distilling the fundamental difference in mindset between those who defend IT systems and those who try to compromise them. The traditional approach for defenders is to list security gaps directly related

Hijack Loader Malware Employs Process Hollowing, UAC Bypass in Latest Version 2024-05-08 at 14:16 By A newer version of a malware loader called Hijack Loader has been observed incorporating an updated set of anti-analysis techniques to fly under the radar. “These enhancements aim to increase the malware’s stealthiness, thereby remaining undetected for longer periods of time,” Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher

US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses 2024-05-08 at 13:46 By Laura Dobberstein Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off The US Commerce Department has revoked some of the licenses held by tech companies to supply Chinese megacorp Huawei.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Intel’s quantum leap in wafer-wide cryo-testing sets cool new standard 2024-05-08 at 12:46 By Dan Robinson Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliable Intel says it has made two advancements towards realizing silicon-based quantum processors which involves optimizing a standard fabrication process and developing a means to test the quality of resulting individual

University staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system 2024-05-08 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Two years after going live, the project that left staff unpaid still needs work The fallout from Edinburgh University’s ill-fated Oracle HR and finance implementation continues with one department recording thousands of mis-coded transactions relating

Hackers Exploiting LiteSpeed Cache Bug to Gain Full Control of WordPress Sites 2024-05-08 at 11:31 By A high-severity flaw impacting the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue admin accounts on susceptible websites. The findings come from WPScan, which said that the vulnerability (CVE-2023-40000, CVSS score: 8.3) has been leveraged to set up bogus admin