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Google Warns: Android Zero-Day Flaws in Pixel Phones Exploited by Forensic Companies 2024-04-03 at 20:01 By Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2024-29745 – An information disclosure flaw in the bootloader component CVE-2024-29748 – […]

Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former co-worker 2024-04-03 at 19:47 By Connor Jones Actions sent homeless victim to jail and a mental hospital for more than a year An Iowa system administrator pleaded guilty to charges related to stealing and assuming a former co-worker’s identity over a 33-year period.… This article

How do security leaders protect PII and other important data? 2024-04-03 at 19:16 By With rapidly changing restrictions and guidelines, security leaders have to be careful when protecting personally identifiable information. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors 2024-04-03 at 19:02 By Dan Robinson CTO shared code from his laptop with investigation after FTX collapsed Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction was expedited by the cooperation of the chief software engineer at his FTX crypto exchange, prosecutors have revealed.… This article is an excerpt from

U.S. Cyber Safety Board Slams Microsoft Over Breach by China-Based Hackers 2024-04-03 at 19:01 By The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year.

US reckons it’s about time the Moon had its own time zone 2024-04-03 at 18:47 By Richard Speed What’s a few milliseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually NASA, which isn’t known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated

Opera browser dev branch rolls out support for running LLMs locally 2024-04-03 at 18:16 By Matthew Connatser 150 variants from about 50 families to choose from Opera has added experimental support for running large language models (LLMs) locally on the Opera One Developer browser as part of its AI Feature Drop Program.… This article is

Outlook.com trips over Google’s spam blocking rules 2024-04-03 at 17:46 By Richard Speed Microsoft has a workaround but it’s not a great look Emails from users with Outlook.com country domains may not be reaching Gmail addresses but fear not – Microsoft has a workaround.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Microsoft lays out plans, pricing for Windows 10 life support 2024-04-03 at 17:17 By Richard Speed Want security updates? It’s gonna cost you Microsoft has laid out the ground rules for getting Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) as market share figures indicate users are still giving Windows 11 a wide berth.… This article is

Google Chrome Beta Tests New DBSC Protection Against Cookie-Stealing Attacks 2024-04-03 at 17:17 By Google on Tuesday said it’s piloting a new feature in Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to help protect users against session cookie theft by malware. The prototype – currently tested against “some” Google Account users running Chrome Beta –

Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity 2024-04-03 at 16:46 By Lindsay Clark Using copyrighted material to train models affects artists’ livelihoods, says open letter The Artist Rights Alliance has launched a petition to end the use of AI that infringes upon or devalues the work of humans.… This

Security pioneer Ross Anderson dies at 67 2024-04-03 at 16:01 By Connor Jones A man with a list of accolades long enough for several lifetimes, friends remember his brilliance Obituary  Venerable computer scientist and information security expert Ross Anderson has died at the age of 67.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Google bakes new cookie strategy that will leave crooks with a bad taste 2024-04-03 at 15:16 By Dan Robinson Device Bound Session Credentials said to render cookie theft useless Google reckons that cookie theft is a problem for users, and is seeking to address it with a mechanism to tie authentication data to a specific

Research reveals a resurfaced botnet targeting end-of-life devices 2024-04-03 at 15:16 By Recent research has identified a campaign that spans several years and targets end-of-life devices.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Attack Surface Management vs. Vulnerability Management 2024-04-03 at 15:01 By Attack surface management (ASM) and vulnerability management (VM) are often confused, and while they overlap, they’re not the same. The main difference between attack surface management and vulnerability management is in their scope: vulnerability management checks a list of known assets, while attack surface management

Linux Foundation marshals support for open source alternative to Redis 2024-04-03 at 14:31 By Lindsay Clark Follows the vendor’s decision to overhaul licensing of the popular cache database Cloud giants AWS, Google, and Oracle have come out in support of a Linux Foundation open source fork of Redis, the popular in-memory database frequently used as

How this open source LLM chatbot runner hit the gas on x86, Arm CPUs 2024-04-03 at 13:47 By Matthew Connatser Way to whip that LLaMA’s ass A handy open source tool for packaging up LLMs into single universal chatbot executables that are easy to distribute and run has apparently had a 30 to 500 percent

Mispadu Trojan Targets Europe, Thousands of Credentials Compromised 2024-04-03 at 12:46 By The banking trojan known as Mispadu has expanded its focus beyond Latin America (LATAM) and Spanish-speaking individuals to target users in Italy, Poland, and Sweden. Targets of the ongoing campaign include entities spanning finance, services, motor vehicle manufacturing, law firms, and commercial facilities, according to

Intel’s foundry business bled $7B in 2023 with more to come 2024-04-03 at 12:31 By Simon Sharwood CEO Gelsinger promises sunny days ahead as he confirms reorg Revenue at Intel’s foundry business declined in 2023, leading to a $7 billion operating loss, and CEO Pat Gelsinger says this year could produce even nastier numbers as

UK government sets sights on £8B tech procurement overhaul 2024-04-03 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Mega framework set to replace earlier deals coming to an end next year The UK government has launched the procurement of a package of tech deals worth up to £8 billion, attempting to consolidate two earlier purchasing arrangements.… This article