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Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts 01/12/2023 at 02:02 By Thomas Claburn IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Special report  The CEO of an independent watchdog has challenged the award of single-source federal government IT contracts worth over $300 million to […]

Well done, Elon. Artemis III likely to miss 2025 Moon landing date, auditors say 01/12/2023 at 01:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed’ Artemis III, the mission intended to put American boots back on the Moon, is unlikely to meet its 2025 launch schedule, the US Government Accountability Office

Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids’ personal data 01/12/2023 at 00:47 By Thomas Claburn Awkward hill to die on, but OK Meta has filed a lawsuit challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to regulate the social advertising giant.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Uh-oh, update Google Chrome – exploit already out there for one of these 6 security holes 01/12/2023 at 00:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Plus: 3 critical CVEs in Zyxel NAS devices Google has rolled out six Chrome security fixes including one emergency patch for a bug for which exploit code is already out there. You’re

37% of adults change passwords following a scam 30/11/2023 at 23:46 By According to a survey by Citi, 27% of U.S. adults have fallen victim to a financial scam despite 90% feeling confident that they could detect scams. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Bitcoin’s thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite 30/11/2023 at 23:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe It probably won’t come as a shock to those aware of the electricity usage of the Bitcoin network, but the world’s most popular cryptocurrency

Scribbling limits in free version of Evernote set to test users’ patience 30/11/2023 at 22:17 By Richard Speed Deckchairs continue to be rearranged on the jotting platform? Evernote plans to slap restrictions on users of its free tier, and from early next month there will be a limit of 50 notes and one notebook per

Mississippi received the most spam calls per month in 2023 30/11/2023 at 21:47 By A recent Truecaller report found that Americans receive an average of six spam calls a month, with Mississippi receiving the highest number of calls. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail 30/11/2023 at 21:32 By Connor Jones 24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies A Ukrainian national is facing an eight year prison sentence for running an online marketplace that sold the personal data

Musk tells advertisers to ‘go f**k’ themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos 30/11/2023 at 21:06 By Richard Currie Hello, police? I’d like to report a murder Comment  “I hope they stop. Don’t advertise. If someone’s going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that

HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems 30/11/2023 at 20:19 By Richard Speed No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard’s HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the company’s hardware attached.… This article is an excerpt from

Broadcom’s latest Trident switch silicon packs neural net processor to terminate congestion 30/11/2023 at 19:02 By Tobias Mann Chip promises better telemetry, security, and traffic engineering, vendor claims Broadcom’s latest switch silicon boasts a built in neural networking engine it says can be trained to combat network congestion on the fly, at line speeds, all

The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more 30/11/2023 at 18:48 By Tim Anderson Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most re:Invent  Another day at AWS re:Invent and yet more talk of artifical intelligence dominated, with a senior executive taking to

88% of IT leaders have met compliance requirements 30/11/2023 at 18:47 By According to a recent report by AppDirect, 45% of IT leaders faced a security breach within the last year and 49% consider human error as top concern. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Roblox investor plays hardball over ‘weak’ parental controls 30/11/2023 at 17:47 By Jude Karabus Shareholder claims company should have ‘warned’ about issue before stock price plunge Online games platform Roblox is the subject of a proposed class action by an investor claiming the company wasn’t forthcoming about alleged flaws in its parental restrictions.… This article

Hubble science instruments still out after going down 3 times in a week 30/11/2023 at 17:03 By Laura Dobberstein Oh no, errant gyro! NASA has confirmed it is working to resume science operations on the Hubble Space Telescope after an ongoing gyroscope issue put it in safe mode.… This article is an excerpt from The

Black Basta ransomware operation nets over $100M from victims in less than two years 30/11/2023 at 16:32 By Connor Jones Assumed Conti offshoot averages 7 figures for each successful attack but may have issues with, er, ‘closing deals’ The Black Basta ransomware group has reportedly generated upwards of $100 million in revenue since it started

Survey shows AI-powered cybersecurity tools adoption uncertainty 30/11/2023 at 16:32 By A new survey reveals that although security leaders see AI as superior at identifying threats, the widespread adoption of large language models is not likely on the horizon. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google Unveils RETVec – Gmail’s New Defense Against Spam and Malicious Emails 30/11/2023 at 16:32 By Google has revealed a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec (short for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer) to help detect potentially harmful content such as spam and malicious emails in Gmail. “RETVec is trained to be resilient against character-level manipulations including insertion, deletion,

Making SASE and zero trust work for the enterprise 30/11/2023 at 16:16 By The ever-evolving corporate networks now encompass both cloud and on-premises infrastructure and distributed workforces. Balancing security and connectivity has never been more challenging. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source