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45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup 2024-04-26 at 14:01 By Tobias Mann Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works Exclusive  Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but […]

New ‘Brokewell’ Android Malware Spread Through Fake Browser Updates 2024-04-26 at 14:01 By Fake browser updates are being used to push a previously undocumented Android malware called Brokewell. “Brokewell is a typical modern banking malware equipped with both data-stealing and remote-control capabilities built into the malware,” Dutch security firm ThreatFabric said in an analysis published Thursday. The malware is said to

10 Critical Endpoint Security Tips You Should Know 2024-04-26 at 14:01 By In today’s digital world, where connectivity is rules all, endpoints serve as the gateway to a business’s digital kingdom. And because of this, endpoints are one of hackers’ favorite targets.  According to the IDC, 70% of successful breaches start at the endpoint. Unprotected endpoints provide vulnerable entry points to

Palo Alto Networks Outlines Remediation for Critical PAN-OS Flaw Under Attack 2024-04-26 at 14:01 By Palo Alto Networks has shared remediation guidance for a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting PAN-OS that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), could be weaponized to obtain unauthenticated remote shell command execution on susceptible devices. It has been addressed in This

IBM and LzLabs to clash in UK court over Software Defined Mainframe 2024-04-26 at 13:32 By Dan Robinson Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims IBM and LzLabs are to lock horns in a London court next week over Big Blue’s claim of breach of contract relating to mainframes

UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges 2024-04-26 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark Defra is counting contractors like sheep The UK agriculture department is “working towards” getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation teams and reducing contingent labor to 12 percent of

VMware’s end-user compute community told to brace for ‘Omnissa’ shift 2024-04-26 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts VMware by Broadcom’s breakup with its end-user compute products will enter a new phase next week, with cloudy service providers and customers both warned of imminent

Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites 2024-04-26 at 09:46 By Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It

Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim 2024-04-26 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn’t living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three

Why banning TikTok will not solve data security challenges 2024-04-26 at 07:15 By Legislators and others in favor of banning TikTok often cite data security issues, but it’s an invalid argument that will do little in terms of data security protections. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit support 2024-04-26 at 06:03 By Simon Sharwood Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Australian collaborationware company.… This article is

Intel excited by PC sales pop and GPU prospects, but investors aren’t because the outlook is poor 2024-04-26 at 05:02 By Tobias Mann Chipzilla’s Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang – for now Intel has reported double-digit growth in client computing revenue, growing demand for AI PCs, and promised of strong gains in the

Alphabet, Microsoft profit and sales soar without obvious help from AI 2024-04-26 at 03:31 By Thomas Claburn If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won’t have much to worry about, probably Google’s parent company Alphabet and Microsoft saw the price of their shares surge in after-hours trading after the AI-infatuated businesses

Alphabet, Microsoft profit and sales soar without much help from AI 2024-04-26 at 03:19 By Thomas Claburn Machine learning could be an expensive habit Google’s parent company Alphabet and Microsoft saw the price of their shares surge in after-hours trading after the AI-infatuated businesses delivered higher-than-anticipated quarterly earnings.… This article is an excerpt from The

Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns 2024-04-26 at 01:47 By Tobias Mann Talk about going round the (South) Bend Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip 2024-04-26 at 00:46 By Thomas Claburn Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school’s principal using AI software to make it seem

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on ‘pretty girls’ 2024-04-26 at 00:17 By Matthew Connatser Cash to go out as refunds to punters The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary’s coffers.… This article is an excerpt from

ByteDance ‘would rather’ torpedo TikTok than sell it off 2024-04-25 at 23:18 By Matthew Connatser As app boss vows to nuke America’s divest-or-ban law in the courts Between shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

FCC votes to bring net neutrality back from the dead 2024-04-25 at 22:17 By Matthew Connatser This game of political ping-pong continues The FCC voted Thursday to restore America’s net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset 2024-04-25 at 22:04 By Richard Speed Pulumi’s CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company Interview  Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality.… This article is an excerpt from