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When it comes to AMD’s latest AI chips it’s follow the money, and the memory 12/12/2023 at 23:32 By Iain Thomson Don’t expect supply, or prices, to ease until 2025 at the earliest Kettle  Over the last week AMD has been extolling the virtues of its latest kit, including the MI300 which Su’s crew claim […]

Cloud engineer wreaks havoc on bank network after getting fired 12/12/2023 at 23:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Now he’s got two years behind bars to think about his bad choices An ex-First Republic Bank cloud engineer was sentenced to two years in prison for causing more than $220,000 in damage to his former employer’s computer

Germantown Academy adopts AI gun detection technology 12/12/2023 at 22:01 By Germantown Academy has deployed a proactive gun detection and intelligent situational awareness solution has been deployed by to protect students, staff and visitors from gun-related violence. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

With CVEs, time is on hackers’ side 12/12/2023 at 21:46 By For IT and cybersecurity professionals, 15 minutes has enormous value. It can literally spell the difference between safety and disaster. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

81% of companies had malware, phishing and password attacks in 2023 12/12/2023 at 21:35 By According to a recent report, 81% of organizations faced malware, phishing and password attacks last year which were mainly targeted at users. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Unveiling the Cyber Threats to Healthcare: Beyond the Myths 12/12/2023 at 21:34 By Let’s begin with a thought-provoking question: among a credit card number, a social security number, and an Electronic Health Record (EHR), which commands the highest price on a dark web forum?  Surprisingly, it’s the EHR, and the difference is stark: according to a study,

Discord in the ranks: Lone Airman behind top-secret info leak on chat platform 12/12/2023 at 21:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo Poor cybersecurity hygiene in the military? Surely not! There was only one US Air National Guardsman behind the leak of top-secret US military documents on Discord, but his chain of command bears some responsibility for letting

28% of retailers rely on yelling to alert employees of an emergency 12/12/2023 at 20:01 By According to a retail report, petty theft (54%), grab-and-run theft (35%) and hostile customer interactions (31%) have increased in the last year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies 12/12/2023 at 19:46 By Liam Proven Irish software projects gear up for latest iterations Devs at well-loved distros Mint and Zorin are hard at work, with Mint 21.3 expected before the holidays, although Zorin OS 17 may take a little longer. Their respective betas show both

Oracle share price slides as it misses revenue expectations 12/12/2023 at 18:32 By Lindsay Clark Still, Ellison talks up cloud margins, says 100 datacenters don’t cost more ‘to run’ than 10 Oracle has seen its market valuation dip on the back of lower than expected revenue growth for Q2 of its fiscal 2024 ended November

Russian APT28 Hackers Targeting 13 Nations in Ongoing Cyber Espionage Campaign 12/12/2023 at 18:22 By The Russian nation-state threat actor known as APT28 has been observed making use of lures related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war to facilitate the delivery of a custom backdoor called HeadLace. IBM X-Force is tracking the adversary under the name ITG05, which

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI 12/12/2023 at 17:50 By Richard Speed We used to use Edlin. And we were happy Microsoft is considering adding a text editor back into the command line world, thus risking some heated discussions on the subject.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Northern Ireland cops count human cost of August data breach 12/12/2023 at 17:02 By Connor Jones Officers potentially targeted by dissidents can’t afford to relocate for their safety, while others seek support to change their names An official review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) August data breach has revealed the full extent

Ofcom proposes ban on UK telcos making ‘inflation-linked’ price hikes mid-contract 12/12/2023 at 15:47 By Dan Robinson And it’s not just inflation… it’s inflation plus an additional percentage, it turns out Brit telecoms regulator Ofcom is proposing fresh rules that take a swipe at companies who impose inflation-linked price rises in the middle of a

AWS S3 is ‘pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications’ 12/12/2023 at 14:35 By Tim Anderson We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer re:Invent  At the recent AWS re:Invent conference, the hype was all around AI, but the big launch for many users was S3 (Simple Storage Service) Express One Zone

Non-Human Access is the Path of Least Resistance: A 2023 Recap 12/12/2023 at 14:35 By 2023 has seen its fair share of cyber attacks, however there’s one attack vector that proves to be more prominent than others – non-human access. With 11 high-profile attacks in 13 months and an ever-growing ungoverned attack surface, non-human identities are the

New MrAnon Stealer Malware Targeting German Users via Booking-Themed Scam 12/12/2023 at 14:01 By A phishing campaign has been observed delivering an information stealer malware called MrAnon Stealer to unsuspecting victims via seemingly benign booking-themed PDF lures. “This malware is a Python-based information stealer compressed with cx-Freeze to evade detection,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. “MrAnon

Android iMessage app Beeper releases working update of blue-bubbled tool 12/12/2023 at 13:50 By Richard Speed Dev claims to have fixed ‘issue that caused messages not to be sent or received’ The developer behind Beeper Mini just released an updated version of the standalone Android app that users say can sidestep the block Apple put

Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release 12/12/2023 at 12:32 By Liam Proven A mis-merged patch causing corruption on ext4 volumes is to blame The Debian maintainers have identified a problem in kernel 6.1 that can cause corruption on ext4 volumes. As a result, the planned 12.3 release won’t happen.… This article is an excerpt from

BlackBerry squashes plan to spin out its IoT biz 12/12/2023 at 11:32 By Simon Sharwood Board and incoming CEO decide reorganizing is better than splitting BlackBerry has decided its plan to split into two separate companies is not a good idea and will instead reorganize itself into two independent divisions.… This article is an excerpt