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U.S. Sanctions 3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges for Helping Russia Evade Sanctions 2024-03-26 at 11:22 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for offering services used to evade economic restrictions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. This includes Bitpapa IC FZC LLC, […]

Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws 2024-03-26 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin’ Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same issue.… This article is

Cloudflare reveals it’s automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often 2024-03-26 at 09:31 By Simon Sharwood Error budget’ and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed Cloudflare has revealed a little about how it maintains the millions of boxes it operates around the world – including the concept of an “error budget” that enacts

SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success 2024-03-26 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) –

CISA Alerts on Active Exploitation of Flaws in Fortinet, Ivanti, and Nice Products 2024-03-26 at 08:17 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday placed three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities added are as follows – CVE-2023-48788 (CVSS score: 9.3) – Fortinet FortiClient EMS

RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s 2024-03-26 at 07:32 By Matthew Connatser Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle A demo of Yingren Technology’s YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller – built entirely on the RISC-V architecture – showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without

New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too! 2024-03-26 at 05:55 By Simon Sharwood Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed 2024-03-26 at 03:46 By Simon Sharwood Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered the nation’s National Telecommunications Commission to block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for the simple reason that platform doesn’t have a

Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches 2024-03-26 at 02:02 By Tobias Mann Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track? Networking biz Coherent unveiled an optical circuit switch designed to support high-density AI clusters at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference on Monday.… This article is an excerpt from

Seven Chinese nationals accused of cyber-spying on US biz and more for Beijing 2024-03-26 at 00:19 By Jessica Lyons Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force? The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer networks, email accounts, and cloud

Twitter’s lawsuit against hate speech researchers gets SLAPPed out of court 2024-03-25 at 22:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo How’s that free comment thing working out, Elon? Elon Musk’s attempt to use the courts to silence a nonprofit documenting hate speech on X has been dismissed by a California judge, who said it was clear the billionaire’s

As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate 2024-03-25 at 21:36 By Tobias Mann Cheap low-carbon energy? What’s not to love… The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it’s poised to be become a rather

First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks ‘fairly normal,’ says Torvalds 2024-03-25 at 21:05 By Liam Proven Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last Linus Torvalds just announced the first RC of 6.9 on the Linux Kernel mailing list, saying it “looks to be fairly normal”, although it’s a

Tiny Corp launching Nvidia-powered AI computer because ‘it just works’ 2024-03-25 at 20:32 By Matthew Connatser Startup criticizes AMD over buggy firmware After a weeks-long struggle to get its AMD RX 7900XTX-based TinyBox working on open source firmware, Tiny Corp says it will be launching an Nvidia RTX 4090 version for users who want something

Over 170K users hit by poisoned Python package ruse 2024-03-25 at 20:17 By Matthew Connatser Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server More than 170,000 users have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with “successful exploitation of multiple victims.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Google’s AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage 2024-03-25 at 19:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo If you’re seeing AI-generated results in Google Search and you didn’t opt in, be careful what you click Google’s new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy,

AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future 2024-03-25 at 19:03 By Tobias Mann LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Comment  For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI.… This article is an excerpt from

Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: ‘I don’t like the hypocrisy` 2024-03-25 at 18:48 By Dan Robinson ‘Look at what we’re accusing TikTok of, and then go look at Facebook and Google…’ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government’s targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social

Evaluating Your Security Posture: Security Assessment Basics 2024-03-25 at 18:31 By David Broggy This is Part 4 in my ongoing project to cover 30 cybersecurity topics in 30 weekly blog posts. The full series can be found here. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

ZTNA Plus DLP Equals a Strong Approach to Secure Access 2024-03-25 at 18:17 By Aileen Kara Hudspeth Ensuring Only the Right People Access the Right Data This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source