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To prevent ‘lost’ nukes, scientists suggest storing them in a hall of mirrors 31/10/2023 at 11:48 By Katyanna Quach Radio bouncing of mutliple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, […]

Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices 31/10/2023 at 11:47 By Canada on Monday announced a ban on the use of apps from Tencent and Kaspersky on government mobile devices, citing an “unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.” “The Government of Canada is committed to keeping government information and networks secure,”

Google formally gets to work on Android on RISC-V 31/10/2023 at 10:32 By Simon Sharwood Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Meta Launches Paid Ad-Free Subscription in Europe to Satisfy Privacy Laws 31/10/2023 at 10:02 By Meta on Monday announced plans to offer an ad-free option to access Facebook and Instagram for users in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland to comply with “evolving” data protection regulations in the region. The ad-free

Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices 31/10/2023 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security’ The government of Canada has decided that Tencent’s WeChat app, and Kaspersky’s security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting 31/10/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Australia’s SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting.… This article is an excerpt from The

Stop what you’re doing and patch this critical Confluence flaw, warns Atlassian 31/10/2023 at 08:18 By Simon Sharwood Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Vietnam becomes latest nation to pitch itself as a chip biz hub 31/10/2023 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein 50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global

Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of ‘scary fast’ M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process 31/10/2023 at 05:47 By Tobias Mann MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built

SolarWinds charged after SEC says biz knew IT was leaky ahead of SUNBURST attack 31/10/2023 at 03:47 By Simon Sharwood Developer and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America’s financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a

Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access 31/10/2023 at 03:02 By Thomas Claburn Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn’t certain Google has confirmed that some people’s Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot

Florida man jailed after draining $1M from victims in crypto SIM swap attacks 31/10/2023 at 02:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Not old enough to legally buy a beer, old enough for a 30-month term A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole

Alphabet CEO testifies in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay 31/10/2023 at 01:47 By Thomas Claburn As Uncle Sam releases more internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government’s Google antitrust trial – and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are

Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe… Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order 31/10/2023 at 01:17 By Katyanna Quach ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they’re training a foundation model, and more US President Joe Biden issued an executive order today putting in place some safeguards that may mitigate societal risks

Voltage Park to deploy $500M worth of Nvidia H100s to milk that AI hype 31/10/2023 at 00:32 By Tobias Mann At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100

NASCO notifies individuals of a data breach through MOVEit 31/10/2023 at 00:16 By NASCO announced a data breach. NASCO utilized MOVEit software, which was accessed in late May and the breach was discovered in mid-July. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

X looks back at year of so-called ‘engineering excellence’ under Musk 31/10/2023 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Now please subscribe to premium and let us host your ‘entire financial life’ It’s no longer just opinion to say the platform formerly known as Twitter has declined in many ways since Elon Musk’s takeover, but you wouldn’t

Unpatched NGINX ingress controller bugs can be abused to steal Kubernetes cluster secrets 30/10/2023 at 23:03 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Just tricks, no treats with these 3 vulns Three unpatched high-severity bugs in the NGINX ingress controller can be abused by miscreants to steal credentials and other secrets from Kubernetes clusters. … This article is an

FTC says financial institutions must disclose data breaches in 30 days 30/10/2023 at 23:02 By The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has amended the Safeguards Rule requiring non-banking financial institutions to report data breaches. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

$350B DoD nuke makeover efforts lack oversight, say inspectors 30/10/2023 at 22:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Still, it’s not like it’s a matter of life and death, is it? The US Department of Defense’s update of its aging nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $350 billion over the next 20 years, yet oversight problems mean