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Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why? 2024-02-20 at 08:31 By Laura Dobberstein Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement If you’re the kind of geek who takes delight in – or even notices – the animated graphics that accompany error messages, you may be interested […]

Iran and Hezbollah Hackers Launch Attacks to Influence Israel-Hamas Narrative 2024-02-20 at 08:31 By Hackers backed by Iran and Hezbollah staged cyber attacks designed to undercut public support for the Israel-Hamas war after October 2023. This includes destructive attacks against key Israeli organizations, hack-and-leak operations targeting entities in Israel and the U.S., phishing campaigns designed

LockBit Ransomware’s Darknet Domains Seized in Global Law Enforcement Raid 2024-02-20 at 07:46 By An international law enforcement operation has led to the seizure of multiple darknet domains operated by LockBit, one of the most prolific ransomware groups, marking the latest in a long list of digital takedowns. While the full extent of the effort, codenamed Operation

Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards 2024-02-20 at 07:02 By Laura Dobberstein Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database The Vietnamese government will begin collecting biometric information from its citizens for identification purposes beginning in July this year.… This article is an excerpt from

Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can’t fill the gap 2024-02-20 at 05:01 By Simon Sharwood Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers Australia needs an exascale computer system, and a refresh of its current HPC fleet, but lacks a plan or

LockBit ransomware gang disrupted by global operation 2024-02-20 at 03:31 By Simon Sharwood Website has been seized and replaced with law enforcement logos from eleven nations Notorious ransomware gang LockBit’s website has been taken over by law enforcement authorities, who claim they have disrupted the group’s operations and will soon reveal the extent of an

Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage 2024-02-19 at 20:17 By Richard Speed Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering A Japanese satellite lofted by Rocket Lab is to monitor a chunk of space junk ahead of future missions designed to curtail orbital debris.… This article is an excerpt from The

Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems 2024-02-19 at 19:16 By Katyanna Quach Careful prompting can beat training a model from scratch Interview  Commercial large language models’ abilities to solve competitive programming problems can be significantly boosted by carefully guiding its processes through clever prompt engineering.… This article is an excerpt

What’s going on with Eos, Nvidia’s incredible shrinking supercomputer? 2024-02-19 at 18:17 By Tobias Mann It’ll have 10K GPUs! No, 4,608! Err… 2,816? Analysis  Nvidia can’t seem to make up its mind just how big its Eos supercomputer is.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground 2024-02-19 at 17:02 By Richard Speed Danger to humans? Less than ‘1 in 100 billion’, says agency ESA’s ERS-2 satellite is heading back to Earth this week and some substantial fragments are likely to survive re-entry, although the chances of anyone being injured by

ALPHV gang claims it’s the attacker that broke into Prudential Financial, LoanDepot 2024-02-19 at 16:17 By Connor Jones Ransomware group continues to exploit US regulatory requirements to its advantage The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group is claiming responsibility for attacks on both Prudential Financial and LoanDepot, making a series of follow-on allegations against them.… This article is

The Department of State offers $10M for information on ALPHV/Blackcat 2024-02-19 at 16:02 By Anyone who can provide information regarding key members or conspirators of ALPHV/Blackcat may be offered a monetary reward.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Meta Warns of 8 Spyware Firms Targeting iOS, Android, and Windows Devices 2024-02-19 at 15:46 By Meta Platforms said it took a series of steps to curtail malicious activity from eight different firms based in Italy, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) operating in the surveillance-for-hire industry. The findings are part of its Adversarial Threat

City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment 2024-02-19 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI The City of London is searching for a systems integrator to help it make the leap to the cloud after

Virgin Media to stand up rival network operator to BT Openreach 2024-02-19 at 15:17 By Dan Robinson NetCo hoping to eat some of the pie by opening network plumbing to ISPs UK telco Virgin Media is opening up its fixed line broadband networks to other internet service providers (ISPs) for the first time, setting up

Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative announces its priorities for 2024 2024-02-19 at 15:16 By The 2024 priorities of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative aim to secure against immediate and evolving cyber risks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

How to Achieve the Best Risk-Based Alerting (Bye-Bye SIEM) 2024-02-19 at 14:32 By Did you know that Network Detection and Response (NDR) has become the most effective technology to detect cyber threats? In contrast to SIEM, NDR offers adaptive cybersecurity with reduced false alerts and efficient threat response. Are you aware of Network Detection and Response

Anatsa Android Trojan Bypasses Google Play Security, Expands Reach to New Countries 2024-02-19 at 13:31 By The Android banking trojan known as Anatsa has expanded its focus to include Slovakia, Slovenia, and Czechia as part of a new campaign observed in November 2023. “Some of the droppers in the campaign successfully exploited the accessibility service, despite Google

British businesses told: Compliance with EU AI law will satisfy UK guidance 2024-02-19 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark Keep calm and innovate or regulate before it’s too late? With the UK launching its guidance for governing AI development and deployment last week, legal experts are warning that most organizations will look to the proposed EU

Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI 2024-02-19 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Expect it to be stable in June, ready for release sometime after July Google has delivered the first developer preview of Android 15.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source