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Guess the company: Takes your DNA, blames you when criminals steal it, can’t spot a cyberattack for 5 months 2024-01-26 at 18:19 By Connor Jones Breach filings show Reddit post led to the discovery rather than any sophisticated cyber defenses Biotech and DNA-collection biz 23andMe, the one that blamed its own customers for the October […]

FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power 2024-01-26 at 17:03 By Katyanna Quach Startups hoping to compete in the industry face an uphill battle Panel  The dominance of big tech in cloud computing, coupled with a shortage of chips, is preventing smaller AI software and hardware startups from competing fairly, according to panelists

Technology truly is the gift that keeps on giving … SNAFUs to highlight 2024-01-26 at 16:16 By Iain Thomson Until we can hook schadenfreude directly into our veins, this will have to do Kettle  What was your favorite tech failure this week? You may well agree with our vultures who for this latest Kettle episode

Spoofing 802.11 Wireless Beacon Management Frames with Manipulated Power Values Resulting in Denial of Service for Wireless Clients 2024-01-26 at 16:01 By Tom Neaves This is another one of those blog posts from me about how I independently carried out some security research into a thing and found something, but I was just too late

2024 outlook: Strengthening retail security to combat new threats 2024-01-26 at 15:46 By Retail security leaders face an evolving landscape of threats as bad actors appear to be more brazen, even when met with increased security presence. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Unlocking efficiency and compliance within medical facilities 2024-01-26 at 15:46 By Controlling the flow of people in a healthcare facility is essential to keep staff, patients, sensitive documents, medications and equipment secure. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

UK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog’s crosshairs 2024-01-26 at 15:18 By Paul Kunert Union claims corporate greed behind alliance, firms claim it is about helping customers The UK’s competition watchdog is today kicking off Phase 1 of its probe into proposed merger between Vodafone and Three’s UK businesses to determine any repercussions

Intel warns of Q1 nosedive… and its shares follow suit 2024-01-26 at 15:18 By Tobias Mann Pat’s gonna need to sell a lotta AI PCs if he wants to make a profit this quarter Intel execs this week painted a grim picture of early 2024, forecasting steep declines ahead for the company’s core businesses.… This

Spoofing 802.11 Wireless Beacon Management Frames with Manipulated Power Values Resulting in Denial of Service for Wireless Client 2024-01-26 at 15:01 By Tom Neaves This is another one of those blog posts from me about how I independently carried out some security research into a thing and found something, but I was just too late

Akira ransomware gang says it stole passport scans from Lush in 110 GB data heist 2024-01-26 at 14:31 By Connor Jones Cosmetics brand goes from Jackson Pollocking your bathwater to cleaning up serious a digital mess The Akira ransomware gang is claiming responsiblity for the “cybersecurity incident” at British bath bomb merchant.… This article is

Perfecting the Defense-in-Depth Strategy with Automation 2024-01-26 at 14:02 By Medieval castles stood as impregnable fortresses for centuries, thanks to their meticulous design. Fast forward to the digital age, and this medieval wisdom still echoes in cybersecurity. Like castles with strategic layouts to withstand attacks, the Defense-in-Depth strategy is the modern counterpart — a multi-layered

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more, but is still standing upright 2024-01-26 at 13:48 By Laura Dobberstein In Memoriam for plucky robot that brushed off dead sensors and dust like they were nothing After 72 flights and three years, NASA has retired Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter that became the first aircraft operated outside the

Malicious Ads on Google Target Chinese Users with Fake Messaging Apps 2024-01-26 at 12:46 By Chinese-speaking users have been targeted by malicious Google ads for restricted messaging apps like Telegram as part of an ongoing malvertising campaign. “The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where

Virgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints 2024-01-26 at 12:31 By Richard Speed Clean sweep across broadband, landline, and pay TV It may be only a few years since the two were combined, but Virgin Media O2 is topping UK comms regulator Ofcom’s customer complaints chart.… This article is an excerpt from

Microsoft Warns of Widening APT29 Espionage Attacks Targeting Global Orgs 2024-01-26 at 08:34 By Microsoft on Thursday said the Russian state-sponsored threat actors responsible for a cyber attack on its systems in late November 2023 have been targeting other organizations and that it’s currently beginning to notify them. The development comes a day after Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Critical Cisco Flaw Lets Hackers Remotely Take Over Unified Comms Systems 2024-01-26 at 08:02 By Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw impacting Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products that could permit an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device. Tracked as CVE-2024-20253 (CVSS score: 9.9), the issue stems

Russian TrickBot Mastermind Gets 5-Year Prison Sentence for Cybercrime Spree 2024-01-26 at 08:02 By 40-year-old Russian national Vladimir Dunaev has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for his role in creating and distributing the TrickBot malware, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. The development comes nearly two months after Dunaev pleaded

JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant 2024-01-26 at 04:46 By Laura Dobberstein Mission a ‘minimum’ success because rovers deployed successfully The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has transmitted images of the Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) to Earth.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Google’s AI-fueled IDE Project IDX tries to show you how your app runs on Android, iOS 2024-01-26 at 03:48 By Thomas Claburn Work in progress, approach with caution Google has added a fresh round of features to Project IDX, its cloud-based development environment.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Trickbot malware scumbag gets five years for infecting hospitals, businesses 2024-01-26 at 02:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Rest of the crew still at large A former Trickbot developer has been sent down for five years and four months for his role in infecting American hospitals and businesses with ransomware and other malware, costing victims tens