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Guarding against social engineering attacks 03/11/2023 at 16:31 By Social engineering attacks are on the rise, and despite increased awareness, human error is still the most successful gateway for most data breaches. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Backup administrators under fire as ransomware threats evolve 03/11/2023 at 16:31 By Data backup administrators often find themselves stuck in the crosshairs of cybercriminals looking to turn a profit off ransomware attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

World leaders ink AI safety pacts while Musk and Sunak engage in awkward bromance 03/11/2023 at 16:17 By Lindsay Clark Summit’s crowning glory was a not-legally-binding document that China didn’t sign The UK government has announced a tech industry agreement it claims will form a plan for AI safety testing.… This article is an excerpt

Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool 03/11/2023 at 15:17 By Liam Proven Complete rebuild of Debian distro optimized for diminutive computer Raspberry Pi OS has undergone more than a modest version upgrade including a new set of tools for writing it to a bootable SD card.… This article is an

UK data watchdog fines three text spammers for flouting electronic marketing rules 03/11/2023 at 14:32 By Paul Kunert ‘High-pressure’ sales tactics targeted people registered with Telephone Preference Service A “debt management company” is itself facing a bill from Britain’s data regulator for sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to households that opted not to

UK pensions scheme flushed £74M when it walked from Atos deal 03/11/2023 at 13:32 By Lindsay Clark Annual report reveals ‘challenges’ around ‘commercial and risk appetite’ A UK government pensions organization paid Atos £74 million for two years of a £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) contract, which it then ended 16 years short of its potential

Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told 03/11/2023 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Which? and Uswitch call on UK regulator to tackle specter of bigger bills for Brits come April UK telcos are facing complaints about mid-contract price rises, with 87 percent of consumers saying they should be allowed to simply walk away with

Google shelves plan to build four San Francisco GoogleBurbs 03/11/2023 at 11:32 By Laura Dobberstein Working from home, smaller office footprints, and cost cutting made GoogleVille redundant Google and real estate developer Lendlease have binned their scheme to create four master-planned California communities known as the San Francisco Bay Project.… This article is an excerpt

Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs 03/11/2023 at 09:32 By Tobias Mann Can’t RISC losing them to another ISA Arm Holdings has acquired a minority stake in the popular single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi in a bid to cement its influence over the IoT developer community.… This article

Apple’s year ends with surging services, a billion subscribers, and a view of generation next 03/11/2023 at 08:36 By Simon Sharwood Hardware (other than iPhones) is not so hot, but ’emerging markets’ are getting Apple fever Apple has posted revenue of $383.3 billion – or about $12,000 per second – for the year, cracked the

Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud 03/11/2023 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood That is not the plan – nor was a larger loss – so investors whacked the Aussie’s share price Atlassian’s share price has taken a sharp dive after the Australian collaboration corporation revealed decent results, but predicted its on-prem

India’s lunar landing made a mess on the Moon 03/11/2023 at 06:46 By Laura Dobberstein ‘Ejecta halo’ detected by orbiter reminds that life on Luna will be dirty, gritty, and sneezy India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has published resrarch that reveals its Chandrayaan-3 mission made quite a mess on the Moon.… This article is an

FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges 03/11/2023 at 04:21 By Simon Sharwood Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty of seven criminal charges.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Uber, Lyft to had back $328M of stolen wages to NY drivers 03/11/2023 at 04:07 By Katyanna Quach So much for appy cabbies being ‘partners’ – Big U kept fares low by making ’em pay fees that riders should have picked up Uber and Lyft will hand over $328 million in back pay to more

US Commerce Dept pinky swears it won’t push American spyware on world-plus-dog 03/11/2023 at 02:35 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Or maybe just not let foreign govts buy this stuff at all? The US Commerce Department has promised to stop promoting American-made commercial spyware to foreign governments.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Google gives up on that API that looked more than a bit like DRM for websites 03/11/2023 at 02:03 By Thomas Claburn Instead, Chocolate Factory focuses on more limited attestation for Android WebViews Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to

Scarlett Johansson sics lawyers on AI biz that cloned her for an ad 03/11/2023 at 01:05 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Beatles emit song with a little help from a neural network Lawyers representing Scarlett Johansson have pressured the developers of an AI avatar-generating app into taking down an advert that used the Hollywood mega-star’s face

Amazon’s $1.4B price-raising ‘Project Nessie’ algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight 03/11/2023 at 00:15 By Brandon Vigliarolo More details emerge from Loch Jassy, including how this was anything but a ‘scrapped’ project A fresh less-redacted copy of the US FTC’s monopoly-abuse lawsuit against Amazon has confirmed some of what we previously reported about the web

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it has three Safari browsers – not one 02/11/2023 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn’t buy it Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct

GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims 02/11/2023 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Zephr bags $3.5M, reckons its tech can pinpoint location to sub-60cm levels Interview  A startup that’s just emerged from stealth claims it’s solved smartphone GPS positioning problems by adding software to triangulate a handset with