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Case Study: The Cookie Privacy Monster in Big Global Retail 2024-01-16 at 16:31 By Explore how an advanced exposure management solution saved a major retail industry client from ending up on the naughty step due to a misconfiguration in its cookie management policy. This wasn’t anything malicious, but with modern web environments being so complex, […]

Europe benched in high tech ‘Champions League’ says ASML 2024-01-16 at 16:17 By Dan Robinson Calls for stronger team play in the global economic tournament The EU needs to get serious and act more decisively and collectively if it wants economic security, especially in advanced technology, as it is trailing global rivals such as Japan,

Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs 2024-01-16 at 15:32 By Richard Speed AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure Microsoft and Vodafone have inked a 10-year deal worth $1.5 billion, resulting in the telecommunication giant shuttering physical datacenters across Europe in favor of virtual ones

Remcos RAT Spreading Through Adult Games in New Attack Wave 2024-01-16 at 15:32 By The remote access trojan (RAT) known as Remcos RAT has been found being propagated via webhards by disguising it as adult-themed games in South Korea. WebHard, short for web hard drive, is a popular online file storage system used to upload, download,

3 Ways to Navigate the Challenges of Australian IRAP Assessments 2024-01-16 at 15:02 By Micaiah Koh Compliance is a cornerstone for organisations, especially in countries such as the United States. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source

Types of Social Engineering Attacks used to Gain Internal Network Access 2024-01-16 at 15:02 By Zak Willsallen Social engineering is a technique commonly used by adversaries to manipulate individuals or groups of people into divulging confidential information, performing certain actions, or giving up access to valuable resources. These attacks can take many forms and are

Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon 2024-01-16 at 14:32 By Richard Speed Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs The Asahi Linux team has followed up the release of Fedora Asahi Remix with a post detailing the progress of the project to bring Linux to Apple silicon.… This article

UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor 2024-01-16 at 14:05 By Lindsay Clark Spending watchdog slams reliance on outdated systems and poor governance The UK’s chief auditor has claimed the government could save at least £20 billion by modernizing IT systems and other measures.… This article is an

Case Study: The Cookie Privacy Monster in Big Global Retail 2024-01-16 at 13:46 By Explore how an advanced exposure management solution saved a major retail industry client from ending up on the naughty step due to a misconfiguration in its cookie management policy. This wasn’t anything malicious, but with modern web environments being so complex,

How Sinclair’s QL computer outshined Apple’s Macintosh against all odds 2024-01-16 at 13:02 By Liam Proven Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch Retro Tech Week  Two weeks before Apple launched the Macintosh, Sir Clive Sinclair launched his unprecedentedly powerful yet affordable Motorola-powered SOHO computer – starting a line

Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse 2024-01-16 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects Datacenter operator Deep Green has bagged £200 million ($254 million) from power provider Octopus Energy to help scale deployments that give municipal sites free heat in exchange for

Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard? 2024-01-16 at 11:32 By Richard Speed Playing Colossal Cave Adventure on an ICL 2966 and coding on the last Elliott 803 Feature  Keeping old computers running for everyone to enjoy is getting increasingly difficult as the years pass. Parts get harder to obtain, and

Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company 2024-01-16 at 10:47 By Laura Dobberstein Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries Samsung’s battery unit may have found part of a solution to sourcing the raw materials needed for the products it packs into gadgets

Inferno Malware Masqueraded as Coinbase, Drained $87 Million from 137,000 Victims 2024-01-16 at 10:46 By The operators behind the now-defunct Inferno Drainer created more than 16,000 unique malicious domains over a span of one year between 2022 and 2023. The scheme “leveraged high-quality phishing pages to lure unsuspecting users into connecting their cryptocurrency wallets with the attackers’

Opera MyFlaw Bug Could Let Hackers Run ANY File on Your Mac or Windows 2024-01-16 at 09:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-patched security flaw in the Opera web browser for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS that could be exploited to execute any file on the underlying operating system. The remote code execution vulnerability

Hackers Weaponize Windows Flaw to Deploy Crypto-Siphoning Phemedrone Stealer 2024-01-16 at 09:47 By Threat actors have been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows to deploy an open-source information stealer called Phemedrone Stealer. “Phemedrone targets web browsers and data from cryptocurrency wallets and messaging apps such as Telegram, Steam, and Discord,” Trend Micro researchers

Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form 2024-01-16 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood The only PC with a keyboard so dreadful it challenged the ZX80, now even less usable Retro Tech Week  Judges pondering contenders for the title of “World’s Worst PC Keyboard, Ever”, seldom look too far beyond Sinclair’s ZX80, which offered a

3 Ransomware Group Newcomers to Watch in 2024 2024-01-16 at 08:46 By The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 4,368 cases.  Figure 1: Year over year victims per quarter The rollercoaster ride from explosive growth in 2021 to a momentary dip in 2022

India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions 2024-01-16 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don’t, no reasons explained India’s Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has announced that import restrictions targeting PCs will not include desktop computers, adding another twist to the strange saga of the nation’s

China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia 2024-01-16 at 05:32 By Simon Sharwood ‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more Global crime networks have set up shop in autonomous territories run by armed gangs across Southeast