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March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club 2024-03-13 at 02:22 By Jessica Lyons Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet Patch Tuesday  Microsoft’s monthly patch drop has arrived, delivering a mere 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities – none listed as under active […]

Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints 2024-03-13 at 01:12 By Brandon Vigliarolo Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup An ex-Meta veep has been sued by his former bosses for “brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct” – and by that,

IBM reportedly nixing more staff as ‘workforce rebalance’ continues 2024-03-12 at 22:11 By Brandon Vigliarolo The next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs IBM is back in the layoff headlines after reportedly slashing jobs in its marketing and communications divisions. … This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers 2024-03-12 at 21:32 By Dan Robinson Reports indicate Korean giants fear ‘backlash’ from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom Just a week after it emerged that Dutch chip equipment manufacturer ASML was under US pressure to stop servicing and reparing its

Biden’s budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3b 2024-03-12 at 20:35 By Jessica Lyons Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve an extra $103 million in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, bringing CISA’s total budget to $3 billion.… This article is an excerpt from

Speedometer 3.0 adds new workloads for browser benchmarking 2024-03-12 at 20:22 By Richard Speed But when almost everyone has the same browser engine, are browser benchmarks so important? The latest Speedometer, a benchmark measuring web responsiveness, is out in version 3.0. However, some browser makers have questioned how helpful such benchmarking is in the era

Trump reportedly tried to sell Truth Social to Musk as SPAC deal stalled 2024-03-12 at 19:37 By Brandon Vigliarolo Talk about an unholy social media alliance Faced with mounting legal troubles and a sputtering special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, former president Donald Trump reportedly turned somewhere unexpected last year to offload his flailing social

JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers 2024-03-12 at 18:48 By Connor Jones War of words wages on between vendors divided Last week, we wrote about how security outfit Rapid7 threw JetBrains, the company behind the popular CI/CD platform TeamCity, under the bus over allegations of silent patching. Now,

Stephen Ford hired as CISO at Rockwell Automation 2024-03-12 at 18:48 By Rockwell Automation announced that Stephen Ford is joining the company as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA undertakes new efforts to fortify open source ecosystem 2024-03-12 at 18:20 By The CISA announces new plans to secure the open source ecosystem.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google job ad and Alphabet spin-off point to AI sustainability concerns 2024-03-12 at 17:55 By Dan Robinson Hyperscalers increasingly looking over shoulders as workloads grow AI and its effect on datacenter energy consumption are a concern at Google’s parent Alphabet, with the search giant seeking a manager to lead on AI/ML Carbon Reduction and Net

NASA’s FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble 2024-03-12 at 17:03 By Richard Speed But Artemis is still OK, so that’s alright then NASA has published its budget request for the fiscal year 2025, and it is not good news for the Hubble Space Telescope or the Chandra X-ray Observatory.… This

Oracle revenue growth dips below forecast but investors like the sound of promised Nvidia deal 2024-03-12 at 16:32 By Lindsay Clark Forget the piffle about real world results, lets look at the potential of wundertech Oracle disappointed Wall Street analysts after its latest quarterly revenue haul missed market estimates, although teasing an AI deal with

No App Store needed: Apple caves, will allow sideloading in EU 2024-03-12 at 16:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Think this’ll help you escape the fees? Nope – Apple still wants a cut for letting devs install things on user devices Apple’s compliance measures with the EU’s Digital Markets Act haven’t exactly been universally well received, so

Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion 2024-03-12 at 15:32 By Richard Speed Company might even turn a profit this year Telegram’s CEO has begun discussing an initial public offering (IPO) as the messaging platform’s user count nears the billion mark.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Atlanta chemical manufacturer cited by OSHA 2024-03-12 at 15:13 By The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited an Atlanta chemical manufacturer with 67 serious violations involving employee safety. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

5 commitments CISOs can make to boost cyber resilience 2024-03-12 at 15:13 By Although security leaders cannot anticipate every new threat, there are ways to mitigate risk and establish resilience against attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Bullitt Group had $256 cash in the bank at the end, PWC reveals 2024-03-12 at 14:45 By Paul Kunert IP sold to founders in pre-pack administration, product warranties unaffected The founders of Bullitt Group and subsidiary Bullitt Satellite Connect bought the IP for £210,000 ($269,000) excluding VAT in a pre-pack administration on the same day

Watch Out: These PyPI Python Packages Can Drain Your Crypto Wallets 2024-03-12 at 14:45 By Threat hunters have discovered a set of seven packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to steal BIP39 mnemonic phrases used for recovering private keys of a cryptocurrency wallet. The software supply chain attack campaign has been codenamed

UK council yanks IT systems and phone lines offline following cyber ambush 2024-03-12 at 14:02 By Connor Jones Targeting recovery this week, officials still trying to ‘dentify the nature of the incident’ Leicester City Council says IT systems and a number of its critical service phone lines will remain down until later this week at