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Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible 2024-04-18 at 14:17 By Matthew Connatser Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that’s no mistake Those who find modern smartphones too distracting from real life might be interested in the Boring Phone (no relation to the smartphone […]

Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op 2024-04-18 at 13:32 By Connor Jones Police mimic Spotify Wrapped videos to let crims know they’re being hunted Feature  Cops have brought down a dark-web souk that provided cyber criminals with convincing copies of trusted brands’ websites for use in phishing campaigns.… This article is an

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug 2024-04-18 at 12:46 By Liam Proven 2.9 gives a taste of what’s to come Major updates to Debian’s Advanced Packaging Tool don’t come along very often, but APT 2.9 is here with a significant facelift.… This article is an excerpt from

AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope 2024-04-18 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester Forrester Research says that although 50 models of AI PCs are already on sale today there remains “no killer app” that would make any

Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer 2024-04-18 at 11:01 By Lindsay Clark Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches 2024-04-18 at 10:16 By Simon Sharwood Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats Cisco has developed a product called Hypershield that it thinks represents a new way to do network security.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain ‘addictive and toxic’ new app 2024-04-18 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes The European Commission on Wednesday gave TikTok 24 hours to explain the risk assessment procedures it used before launching a version of the made-in-China app that rewards users for

Hackers Exploit OpenMetadata Flaws to Mine Crypto on Kubernetes 2024-04-18 at 09:16 By Threat actors are actively exploiting critical vulnerabilities in OpenMetadata to gain unauthorized access to Kubernetes workloads and leverage them for cryptocurrency mining activity. That’s according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the flaws have been weaponized since the start of April 2024.

Singapore infosec boss warns China/West tech split will be bad for interoperability 2024-04-18 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein When you decide not to trust a big chunk of the supply chain, tech (and trade) get harder One of the biggest challenges Singapore faces is the potential for a split between tech stacks developed and used

Malicious Google Ads Pushing Fake IP Scanner Software with Hidden Backdoor 2024-04-18 at 08:16 By A new Google malvertising campaign is leveraging a cluster of domains mimicking a legitimate IP scanner software to deliver a previously unknown backdoor dubbed MadMxShell. “The threat actor registered multiple look-alike domains using a typosquatting technique and leveraged Google Ads to

Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data 2024-04-18 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as ‘stationary testbed’ NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter concluded its mission on Tuesday, sending a final signal in its role as a companion to the Perseverance Rover.… This article is an excerpt

Are AI data poisoning attacks the new software supply chain attack? 2024-04-18 at 07:17 By With rapid AI adoption happening across varying business units, maintaining the integrity of those systems is a growing concern. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The cat and mouse ransomware game may threaten smaller organizations 2024-04-18 at 07:17 By It is possible that cybercriminals will shift from a few large-scale, high-stake ransomware attacks to a broader array of smaller-scale attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua 2024-04-18 at 06:46 By Laura Dobberstein Stymied by sanctions, it had to go … but where? Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Zhejiang Dahua Technology, which has found itself on the USA’s entity list of banned orgs, has fully sold off its stateside subsidiary for $15 million

Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash 2024-04-18 at 04:46 By Simon Sharwood Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack A software glitch at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away millions in cash without realizing it – for weeks.… This article is an excerpt

HPE sues China’s Inspur Group over server patents 2024-04-18 at 04:01 By Thomas Claburn Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions Hewlett Packard Enterprise has filed a lawsuit against Inspur Group, China’s largest server maker, for allegedly violating five of its server technology patents.… This article is an excerpt

Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote 2024-04-18 at 03:01 By Jessica Lyons Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam On Thursday the US Senate is expected to reauthorize the contentious warrantless surveillance powers conferred by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA),

Snowmobile, Amazon’s truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road 2024-04-18 at 02:17 By Tobias Mann Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Amazon Web Services is abandoning its fleet of Snowmobile data haulers, the trucks packed with petabytes of spinning disks designed to get large enterprises into the cloud.…

Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry 2024-04-18 at 01:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects ‘developing a viable product or service’ for US chip industry Small businesses wishing they could get their hands on some of those billions of dollars in semiconductor funding

Psst, hey. It’s the NSA. You want some AI security advice? 2024-04-18 at 00:46 By Thomas Claburn You can trust us, we’re the good guys The NSA has released guidance to help organizations protect their AI systems and better defend the defense industry.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source