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China Unicom becomes Middle Kingdom’s second carrier with a billion subscribers 2024-02-21 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Rivals aren’t far behind and 5G numbers are huge, but growth is slowing Chinese mega-carrier China Unicom has claimed it’s signed up the billionth subscriber for its “Big Connectivity” service, making it the second Middle Kingdom carrier to […]

Russian Hackers Target Ukraine with Disinformation and Credential-Harvesting Attacks 2024-02-21 at 08:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation. The activity has been linked to Russia-aligned threat actors by Slovak cybersecurity company ESET, which also identified a spear-phishing campaign aimed at a Ukrainian

VMware Alert: Uninstall EAP Now – Critical Flaw Puts Active Directory at Risk 2024-02-21 at 08:16 By VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) following the discovery of a critical security flaw. Tracked as CVE-2024-22245 (CVSS score: 9.6), the vulnerability has been described as an arbitrary authentication relay bug. “A malicious actor

Australian supercomputer ‘Taingiwilta’ comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside 2024-02-21 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can hire a veteran expert for a web dev’s salary Australia’s Defence Science Technology Group will bring a new supercomputer online in the second half of 2024,but when

China could be doing better at censorship, think tank finds 2024-02-21 at 06:53 By Laura Dobberstein Complex overlapping bureaucracy sometimes lacks the funds and skills to do it right China’s censorship regime remains pervasive and far reaching, but the bureaucratic apparatus implementing it is unevenly developed and is not always well funded, according to a

VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with KVM conversion tool 2024-02-21 at 04:47 By Simon Sharwood Also urges customers to remove some of its software due to a critical vulnerability Scarcely a day passes without The Register‘ss virtualization desk being approached by VMware’s rivals seeking a chance to explain the merits of their

Singapore’s monetary authority advises banks to get busy protecting against quantum decryption 2024-02-21 at 03:16 By Laura Dobberstein No time like the present, says central bank The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) advised on Monday that financial institutions need to stay agile enough to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) technology, without

Hackers mod a Sony PlayStation Portal to run PSP games 2024-02-21 at 02:17 By Tobias Mann Modders claim GTA: Liberty City Stories and Tekken 6 are running ‘very smoothly’ Three months after the November launch of the PlayStation Portal, Sony’s game streaming handheld has been hacked by Google security engineers to run PlayStation Portable (PSP)

Staff say Dell’s return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women 2024-02-21 at 01:17 By Thomas Claburn Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and Dell’s inability to tell them which offices are open Exclusive  Dell’s recent “return to office” mandate has left employees confused about which offices they can use, the

Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data 2024-02-20 at 23:34 By Jessica Lyons Training machine learning on Redditors’ musings – what could go wrong? Reddit has reportedly signed a $60 million deal with an unnamed AI biz to hand over user conversations for model training.… This article is an excerpt

Italy’s military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud 2024-02-20 at 22:32 By Tobias Mann HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms Italy’s Ministry of Defense is exploring a “military space cloud” and has commissioned state-backed aerospace contractor Leonardo to test the concept.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade 2024-02-20 at 21:32 By Dan Robinson Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM Persistent memories can or will soon match DRAM in terms of speed, which could see it eventually replaced in many applications if one of these technologies can scale up and bring

How to Prepare for New Email Authentication Requirements 2024-02-20 at 21:18 By Jennifer Zeman Non-compliant email could be rejected as soon as 31 March 2024 This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Top five reasons to move from CentOS to RHEL (according to Red Hat) 2024-02-20 at 20:46 By Richard Speed Feeding IBM’s bottom line not in the list Red Hat has given five reasons for users to move from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, though it was initially reluctant to disclose them.… This article is

Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026 2024-02-20 at 20:04 By Richard Speed Venerable desktop publisher not going to get a Copilot any time soon Microsoft is confirming plans to deprecate its Publisher application in 2026.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Breakdown of Tycoon Phishing-as-a-Service System 2024-02-20 at 19:31 By Rodel Mendrez Just weeks after Trustwave SpiderLabs reported on the Greatness phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) framework, SpiderLabs’ Global Threat Operations team uncovered another PaaS that it has dubbed Tycoon Group. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO 2024-02-20 at 19:02 By Lindsay Clark $37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M MariaDB has confirmed a possible offer of $37.3 million from private equity company K1 Investment Management to take the recently troubled database company private.… This article is

Industrial sector ransomware attacks increased by 50% in 2023 2024-02-20 at 19:02 By Industrial cybersecurity was analyzed in a recent report by Dragos Inc, finding that ransomware attacks increased 50% over the last year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cops turn LockBit’s ransomware gang’s countdown timers against them 2024-02-20 at 18:03 By Connor Jones Authorities dismantle cybercrime royalty by making mockery of their leak site In seizing and dismantling LockBit’s infrastructure, Western authorities are now making a mockery of the ransomware criminals by promising a long, drawn-out disclosure of its secrets.… This article is

New Migo Malware Targeting Redis Servers for Cryptocurrency Mining 2024-02-20 at 18:03 By A novel malware campaign has been observed targeting Redis servers for initial access with the ultimate goal of mining cryptocurrency on compromised Linux hosts. “This particular campaign involves the use of a number of novel system weakening techniques against the data store