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Logitech MX Brio 705 – where Ultra HD meets Ultra AI 2024-03-06 at 12:23 By Richard Speed Because your face surely deserves to be rendered in glistening 4K, right? Review  Logitech has marched back into the webcam world with the MX Brio, an Ultra HD device sprinkled with copious AI. But is it worth $199.99?… […]

How to Find and Fix Risky Sharing in Google Drive 2024-03-06 at 12:23 By Every Google Workspace administrator knows how quickly Google Drive becomes a messy sprawl of loosely shared confidential information. This isn’t anyone’s fault; it’s inevitable as your productivity suite is purposefully designed to enable real-time collaboration – both internally and externally.  For

Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7 2024-03-06 at 11:45 By Liam Proven If you really need obsolete OSes, here’s a modern(ish) browser Supermium is a browser based on the Google Chrome 121 codebase that works fine on Windows 7 and even, for the truly desperate, for Vista and

Chip lobby group SEMI to EU: Export restrictions should only be used in self-defense 2024-03-06 at 10:31 By Tobias Mann Please don’t scare away foreign investors – who do you think pays for this stuff? SEMI, an industry association representing 3,000 chip vendors, would really appreciate it if the European Union would back off plans

U.S. Cracks Down on Predatory Spyware Firm for Targeting Officials and Journalists 2024-03-06 at 10:24 By The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Alliance for their role in “developing, operating, and distributing” commercial spyware designed to target government officials, journalists, and

VMware Issues Security Patches for ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Flaws 2024-03-06 at 10:24 By VMware has released patches to address four security flaws impacting ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, including two critical flaws that could lead to code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-22252 and CVE-2024-22253, the vulnerabilities have been described as use-after-free bugs in the XHCI USB controller.

Google dresses up services for the EU’s Digital Markets Act 2024-03-06 at 09:52 By Thomas Claburn Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak On Tuesday, Google elaborated on its efforts to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) – a set of competition obligations that take effect on Thursday.…

Alert: GhostSec and Stormous Launch Joint Ransomware Attacks in Over 15 Countries 2024-03-06 at 09:12 By The cybercrime group called GhostSec has been linked to a Golang variant of a ransomware family called GhostLocker. “TheGhostSec and Stormous ransomware groups are jointly conducting double extortion ransomware attacks on various business verticals in multiple countries,” Cisco Talos researcher

New APT Group ‘Lotus Bane’ Behind Recent Attacks on Vietnam’s Financial Entities 2024-03-06 at 09:12 By A financial entity in Vietnam was the target of a previously undocumented threat actor called Lotus Bane that was first detected in March 2023. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB described the hacking outfit as an advanced persistent threat group that’s believed to have been

China pushes ‘AI Plus’ initiative to integrate technology and industry 2024-03-06 at 08:44 By Laura Dobberstein Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi A plan to integrate AI into industry was among the top goals China’s government revealed in the annual Report On the Work of the

Urgent: Apple Issues Critical Updates for Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws 2024-03-06 at 08:20 By Apple has released security updates to address several security flaws, including two vulnerabilities that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. The shortcomings are listed below – CVE-2024-23225 – A memory corruption issue in Kernel that an attacker with arbitrary

What a surprise! Apple found a way to deliver browser engine and app store choice 2024-03-06 at 07:30 By Simon Sharwood We know this because those features just landed in iOS 17.4, along with lots of other goodies Apple has debuted version 17.4 of its iOS & iPadOS, and by doing so made them compliant

Citrix reveals invitation-only ‘Platform’ license 2024-03-06 at 06:48 By Simon Sharwood Follows the Broadcom playbook by ending standalone sales of some products Citrix has created a “Platform License” that it will offer by invitation only, and stopped selling some products outside bundles.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Japan orders local giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks 2024-03-06 at 05:33 By Simon Sharwood Government mighty displeased about a shared Active Directory that led to a big data leak Japan’s government has ordered local tech giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks, after a data breach saw over 510,000

NASA and Japan’s X-ray satellite space ‘scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies 2024-03-06 at 03:38 By Laura Dobberstein Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Monday that the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) – its joint mission with NASA – has transitioned into

Uncle Sam intervenes as Change Healthcare ransomware fiasco creates mayhem 2024-03-06 at 02:47 By Jessica Lyons As the crooks behind the attack – probably ALPHV/BlackCat – fake their own demise The US government has stepped in to help hospitals and other healthcare providers affected by the Change Healthcare ransomware infection, offering more relaxed Medicare rules

Stuck paying for your apartment’s crummy internet? FCC Chair Rosenworcel wants to help 2024-03-06 at 01:47 By Tobias Mann Proposed regulation would bar building owners from forcing internet services on tenants One of the oddities of American apartment living is “bulk billing”, a practice that sees landlords determine which ISP serves the entire complex and

Trump supporters forging AI deepfakes to woo Black voters 2024-03-06 at 01:02 By Katyanna Quach Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve Admirers of Donald Trump are creating fake AI-generated images depicting the former US President interacting with Black people, in the hope the pictures are

Microsoft kills off Windows Subsystem for Android 2024-03-05 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Amazon Appstore tieup fizzles Next year Microsoft will kill off the Windows Subsystem for Android, its framework for running Android applications from the Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 devices.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Fidelity customers’ financial info feared stolen in suspected ransomware attack 2024-03-05 at 21:32 By Jessica Lyons Insurance giant blames Infosys, LockBit claims credit Criminals have probably stolen nearly 30,000 Fidelity Investments Life Insurance customers’ personal and financial information — including bank account and routing numbers, credit card numbers and security or access codes — after