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Urgent: New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild – Update ASAP 21/12/2023 at 07:30 By Google has rolled out security updates for the Chrome web browser to address a high-severity zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-7024, has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow […]

Japan to allow limited rideshare services starting April 2024 21/12/2023 at 05:35 By Simon Sharwood Like Uber, but with drivers overseen by cab companies … for now Japan will open its transport market to rideshare companies for the first time in 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch ‘orbital datacenter’ 21/12/2023 at 03:49 By Tobias Mann Small rack to lift off in 2027 – we reckon it might be 10U or 12U, which can pack a lot of power Axiom Space says it plans to build and launch an orbital datacenter to support

Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions 21/12/2023 at 02:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Why keeping your PC secure and free of malware remains paramount IBM Security has dissected some JavaScript code that was injected into people’s online banking pages to steal their login credentials, saying 50,000 user sessions with more than

Cybercrooks book a stay in hotel email inboxes to trick staff into spilling credentials 21/12/2023 at 00:32 By Connor Jones Research highlights how major attacks like those exploiting Booking.com are executed Cybercriminals are preying on the inherent helpfulness of hotel staff during the sector’s busy holiday season.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

SEC charges ex-medtech CEO with fraud for selling fake plastic implants 20/12/2023 at 23:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Sure, bogus blood tests are bad, but have you considered tricking doctors into embedded useless tubes? The CEO of a now-bankrupt medical technology supplier has been charged for a second time with crimes connected to the development of

Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady 20/12/2023 at 22:34 By Richard Speed Printer names messed up? Debug It Yourself Microsoft has issued a fix for the mysterious HP Smart app issue and Windows subsequently renaming printers, and it’s anything but simple.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition 20/12/2023 at 21:49 By The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for the next five years. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Still up for grabs, it seems: One Concorde engine seeks new home 20/12/2023 at 21:35 By Richard Speed That’ll make a lot of expensive ashtrays Good news, everyone! Earlier this week, it looked as though your opportunity to snap up a piece of aviation history in the form of a Concorde engine might have gone.

Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset 20/12/2023 at 20:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo LAION-5B contains 1,008 verifiable instances of illegal pictures of children, likely lots more, say researchers A massive public dataset that served as training data for popular AI image generators including Stable Diffusion has been found to contain thousands of

NASA makes purrrr-fect deep space transmission of cat vid 20/12/2023 at 19:32 By Richard Speed Tabby footage crosses millions of miles and was still faster than most folks’ home broadband From the department of “what must the aliens think of us?” comes news that NASA has demonstrated its Deep Space Optical Communications experiment through the

Top cybersecurity predictions of 2024 20/12/2023 at 18:46 By As another year comes to a close, cybersecurity leaders are not only looking back and reviewing the top trends of 2023, but considering what the future holds for 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years 20/12/2023 at 18:32 By Laura Dobberstein Among the mistakes, an 11-year-old girl was misidentified as a shoplifter and searched American drugstore chain Rite Aid was banned by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from using AI facial recognition technology for surveillance

Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last) 20/12/2023 at 17:46 By Lindsay Clark Life’s a vector, then you die Just as language models can predict what phrase might come next in a sentence, Danish researchers claim to have shown human life events can be predicted using similar statistical techniques.… This

Remote Encryption Attacks Surge: How One Vulnerable Device Can Spell Disaster 20/12/2023 at 17:16 By Ransomware groups are increasingly switching to remote encryption in their attacks, marking a new escalation in tactics adopted by financially motivated actors to ensure the success of their campaigns. “Companies can have thousands of computers connected to their network, and

Microsoft offers rollback for those affected by Windows wireless futility 20/12/2023 at 16:48 By Richard Speed See, it wasn’t just you Microsoft has finally acknowldged that Windows does have a Wi-Fi problem and offered a resolution for those affected: Known Issue Rollback.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

How to build cyber resilience in a rapidly evolving threat landscape 20/12/2023 at 16:19 By The ransomware landscape is ever evolving and it can seem as though there is a new headline about a breach, extortion demand or fallout after an attack every day. But how can security leaders build cyber resilience?  This article is

Instagram Phishing Targets Backup Codes 20/12/2023 at 16:02 By Recently, we noticed another strain of Instagram “Copyright Infringement” phishing emails in our spam traps. In this version, in addition to targeting Instagram credentials, the cybercriminals also aim to obtain the victim’s Instagram backup codes. This campaign is an enhanced version of what we reported on

Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121 20/12/2023 at 15:33 By Liam Proven Latest version of Mozilla’s web browser brings something different depending on your machine Version 121 of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, released yesterday, has changes that affect Linux, Windows, and Mac users differently.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday 20/12/2023 at 14:32 By Richard Speed Parking meters and trash collection face disruption as networks switch off A worrying number of UK authorities are still unaware of the impending switch-off of 2G and 3G mobile networks, according to Local Government Association (LGA) figures.… This article