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State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Espionage 2024-04-25 at 10:01 By A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributing it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated state-sponsored actor it tracks […]

Google Postpones Third-Party Cookie Deprecation Amid U.K. Regulatory Scrutiny 2024-04-25 at 10:01 By Google has once again pushed its plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser as it works to address outstanding competition concerns from U.K. regulators over its Privacy Sandbox initiative. The tech giant said it’s working closely with the U.K. Competition

Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts 2024-04-25 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank India’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes 2024-04-25 at 07:33 By Laura Dobberstein Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won’t catch fire thanks to built-in vents Samsung SDI, the Korean giant’s battery biz, on Tuesday promised EV batteries that can charge to 80 percent capacity

Bridging the widening cybersecurity skills gap 2024-04-25 at 07:16 By For executives and leaders in IT, security and business operations, the widening cybersecurity skills gap poses an urgent dilemma. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat 2024-04-25 at 05:02 By Simon Sharwood Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints IBM has announced it will acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, and touted the deal as meaning its hybrid cloud platform will

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ – aka backdooring encryption 2024-04-25 at 03:47 By Simon Sharwood And warn that AI us already being used by extremists to plot attacks The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance

Governments issue alerts after ‘sophisticated’ state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes 2024-04-25 at 02:17 By Jessica Lyons Don’t get too comfortable: ‘Line Dancer’ malware may be targeting other vendors, too A previously unknown and “sophisticated” nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked

With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes 2024-04-25 at 00:34 By Tobias Mann Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs Nvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the efficiency of computing clusters built on GPU.…

Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM 2024-04-25 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn It’s not the fastest machine learning model, but you can’t have everything Apple, not normally known for its openness, has released a generative AI model called OpenELM which apparently outperforms a set of other language models trained on public data sets.…

Musk moves Tesla’s goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 2024-04-24 at 23:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y’all buying it this time, too? Opinion  Elon Musk has a strategy and you may have seen it before: When things aren’t going well, he’ll say something wild to take everyone’s eyes

Shouldn’t Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking 2024-04-24 at 22:46 By Jessica Lyons Doctorow: ‘The most amazing part is that this isn’t already the way it’s done’ Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to

Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to ‘make the Start menu great again’ 2024-04-24 at 21:46 By Matthew Connatser And you thought the Bing begging was annoying Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update.… This article is an

Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop 2024-04-24 at 21:03 By Matthew Connatser The SODIMM replacement finally arrives Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers? 2024-04-24 at 20:31 By Richard Speed Secure-by-default… if your pockets are deep enough Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company’s own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.… This article is an

73% of security professionals failed to act upon security alerts 2024-04-24 at 20:16 By Many small and medium-sized enterprises lack the resources and abilities to properly handle the large volume security alerts received.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs 2024-04-24 at 19:46 By Jude Karabus Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else The US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially banning

Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts 2024-04-24 at 19:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo What’s that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward to report problems at his former employer, but that doesn’t seem to have upset shareholders, who sent shares skyward on news of a quarter bearing

Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets 2024-04-24 at 18:17 By Connor Jones The firm ‘fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its