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Synopsys joins RISC-V party with trio of embedded core designs 07/11/2023 at 18:47 By Dan Robinson Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector Synopsys is joining the RISC-V gang, revealing a trio of processor designs it will add to its ARC portfolio, targeting a range of embedded applications.… This article is an […]

Italy hits Airbnb with $836 million seizure over alleged tax evasion 07/11/2023 at 18:05 By Laura Dobberstein Airbnb says it’s just following EU rules instead Italy’s finance police, the Guardia di Finanzia, have seized $836 million (€779 million) from short rental platform company Airbnb on grounds of tax evasion..… This article is an excerpt from

Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware 07/11/2023 at 17:47 By Connor Jones Months of work reveals how this tricky malware family targets… the financial services sector A brand-new macOS malware strain from North Korean state-sponsored hackers has been spotted in the wild.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

N. Korean BlueNoroff Blamed for Hacking macOS Machines with ObjCShellz Malware 07/11/2023 at 17:35 By The North Korea-linked nation-state group called BlueNoroff has been attributed to a previously undocumented macOS malware strain dubbed ObjCShellz. Jamf Threat Labs, which disclosed details of the malware, said it’s used as part of the RustBucket malware campaign, which came to

Epyc 3 ain’t done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs 07/11/2023 at 17:04 By Tobias Mann Three-year-old cores, but hey – they’re cheap, relatively speaking Nearly a year after launching 4th-gen Epycs, AMD still isn’t ready to retire the 3rd-Gen processor family, confirming it is now extending availability of the

Pwning Electroencephalogram (EEG) Medical Devices by Default 07/11/2023 at 17:04 By John Jackson Overall Analysis of Vulnerability Identification – Default Credentials Leading to Remote Code Execution During internal network testing, a document was discovered titled the “XL Security Site Administrator Reference.pdf.” It appeared to be a guide for the specific configuration of the SQL service

ESA goes back to the future with a space freighter… yes again 07/11/2023 at 16:19 By Richard Speed Repeat performance will be able to return to Earth and might one day carry crew The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to return to the International Space Station (ISS) cargo delivery business by 2028, judging by announcements

Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions 07/11/2023 at 15:37 By Laura Dobberstein Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans Outages at two banks that stopped 2.5 million payment transactions were sparked by a technical issue with the datacenter’s cooling system, according to the Monetary Authority

New GootLoader Malware Variant Evades Detection and Spreads Rapidly 07/11/2023 at 15:36 By A new variant of the GootLoader malware called GootBot has been found to facilitate lateral movement on compromised systems and evade detection. “The GootLoader group’s introduction of their own custom bot into the late stages of their attack chain is an attempt to avoid

Confidence in File Upload Security is Alarmingly Low. Why? 07/11/2023 at 15:36 By Numerous industries—including technology, financial services, energy, healthcare, and government—are rushing to incorporate cloud-based and containerized web applications.  The benefits are undeniable; however, this shift presents new security challenges.  OPSWAT’s 2023 Web Application Security report reveals: 75% of organizations have modernized their infrastructure this

Xbox to enhance game dialogues with generative AI through new partnership 07/11/2023 at 15:02 By Cointelegraph By Ezra Reguerra The company will provide an AI toolset for game developers to improve scripts, dialogue trees and quests inside games. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain’t such a great idea, Mr President 07/11/2023 at 14:49 By Tobias Mann America could drive innovation… or inject fear and doubt and kill off choice Continued pressure by US lawmakers to restrict China’s access to RISC-V has been called into question.… This article is an excerpt from

Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells 07/11/2023 at 14:15 By Dan Robinson Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs Ireland looks set to get a datacenter powered entirely by fuel cell technology thanks to an agreement between a local company and a division of Korean

Offensive and Defensive AI: Let’s Chat(GPT) About It 07/11/2023 at 14:01 By ChatGPT: Productivity tool, great for writing poems, and… a security risk?! In this article, we show how threat actors can exploit ChatGPT, but also how defenders can use it for leveling up their game. ChatGPT is the most swiftly growing consumer application to

GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal 07/11/2023 at 13:18 By Liam Proven Traditional Unix sanity plus your choice of MATE or Xfce The first new version of GhostBSD in over a year is here. If you want to try FreeBSD, Linux’s most credible rival and competitor in the FOSS OS

SideCopy Exploiting WinRAR Flaw in Attacks Targeting Indian Government Entities 07/11/2023 at 12:46 By The Pakistan-linked threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed leveraging the recent WinRAR security vulnerability in its attacks targeting Indian government entities to deliver various remote access trojans such as AllaKore RAT, Ares RAT, and DRat. Enterprise security firm SEQRITE described the

SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language 07/11/2023 at 12:34 By Lindsay Clark The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority SAP is the latest to bring a set of AI-assisted coding features to its cloud-based application development environments, joining a

Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It’s not an academic exercise 07/11/2023 at 11:51 By Larry Peterson Literally… Systems Approach  Perhaps the single biggest aspect of systems building I’ve come to appreciate since shifting my focus from academic pursuits to open source software development is the importance of testing and test automation.… This

While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage 07/11/2023 at 11:17 By Simon Sharwood And decided Intel’s GPUs are worthy of on-prem AI action VMware hasn’t been sitting on its hands while waiting for Broadcom to buy it: it has spent the past couple of