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F5 Issues Warning: BIG-IP Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution 27/10/2023 at 07:49 By F5 has alerted customers of a critical security vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The issue, rooted in the configuration utility component, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747, and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of […]

Microsoft enlists iFixit to extend Surface spare parts program 27/10/2023 at 07:03 By Simon Sharwood Appears to have expanded coverage to at least 30 nations Microsoft has extended its spare parts program for Surface PCs by selling components at teardown artists iFixit.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks 27/10/2023 at 04:32 By Simon Sharwood Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has called for Indian youth to voluntarily work 70-hour weeks.… This article is an excerpt from The

Intel CEO Gelsinger dismisses ‘pretty insignificant’ Arm PC challenge 27/10/2023 at 03:46 By Tobias Mann Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has downplayed the threat of rival chipmakers creating processors based on the Arm architecture for PCs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Micron, SK-Hynix’s shipping bandwidth-boosting LPDDR5 for on-device AI 27/10/2023 at 02:02 By Tobias Mann So long as you don’t mind that it’s soldered down Memory vendors Micron and SK Hynix this week began shipping their first LPDDR5 memory modules capable of achieving speeds up to 9,600MT/s.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine 27/10/2023 at 01:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Because says nothing like quality medical care like an ad for the ‘magical entry into another dimension’ Meta has decided that some of its Oversight Board’s objections posts related to intoxicating drugs aren’t

Apple drops urgent patch against obtuse TriangleDB iPhone malware 27/10/2023 at 00:37 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Kaspersky first found this software nasty on its own phones Apple pushed several security fixes on Wednesday, including one for all iPhone and iPads used before September last year that has already been exploited by cyber snoops.… This article

Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine 26/10/2023 at 23:17 By Iain Thomson After a week of incidents, Register vultures pick over the innards Kettle  In this week’s Kettle the topic is one that’s been much in the news this week – the much-underrated insider threat issue.… This article

Amazon Ads rolls out generative AI for ad image composition 26/10/2023 at 22:47 By Thomas Claburn Not enough gourds in your product pics? Try the ‘Pumpkin spice’ theme Amazon on Wednesday said its Amazon Ads customers can begin beta testing the deployment of AI-generated images for pitching products on its sales platform.… This article is

On-by-default video calls come to X, disable to retain your sanity 26/10/2023 at 21:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh, and happy Twitter acquisition day eve to Elon. Will year 2 be better? Not if the bankers get ahold of him, it seems Don’t want to start being bombarded by video calls from Xitter? Then you’d better

Side channel attacks take bite out of Apple silicon with iLeakage exploit 26/10/2023 at 21:02 By Connor Jones Nearly six years on from Spectre and Meltdown, novel method steals passwords, emails, texts University researchers have developed a novel exploit that can steal information from virtually all modern Apple Macs, iPhones, and iPads.… This article is

iLeakage: New Safari Exploit Impacts Apple iPhones and Macs with A and M-Series CPUs 26/10/2023 at 21:02 By A group of academics has devised a novel side-channel attack dubbed iLeakage that exploits a weakness in the A- and M-series CPUs running on Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices, enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the Safari

75% of Americans want government regulations for AI 26/10/2023 at 20:02 By The public perception of AI was analyzed in a recent report by IONOS, finding that 75% of respondents want some form of government oversight. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

NASA to equip International Space Station with frikkin lasers (for comms) 26/10/2023 at 19:49 By Dan Robinson Why, what did you think they were for? US space agency NASA plans to run a technology demonstration for space lasers using the International Space Station next month, to test how this could be used to transmit terabytes

Firefox 119 adds more PDF handiness, but 120 can spot the fakes 26/10/2023 at 19:04 By Liam Proven Mozilla’s review-check firm acquisition to bear fruit really soon Firefox 119 is out with improved inter-device sync and PDF editing, but the next version looks likely to have a whole new ability.… This article is an excerpt

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds 26/10/2023 at 18:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo 6.9 injuries per 100 employees? Try 69 percent taking time off for injuries, exhaustion, survey concludes Amazon may have some serious explaining to do. A survey of workers at warehouses and other company facilities finds injury rates astronomically

What is vendor privileged access management? 26/10/2023 at 18:16 By Privileged access management (PAM) has become an essential part of any organization’s cybersecurity strategy.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The holiday season leads to a rise in business payment fraud 26/10/2023 at 17:46 By A payment security report found that three-fourths of business leaders are more concerned about business payment fraud during the holiday season. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Spacewalk turns into spacework as cosmonauts grapple with ISS leak 26/10/2023 at 17:33 By Richard Speed A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry One spacewalking cosmonaut was hit on their visor by a contaminated tether as a pair of International Space Station crew members ventured outside the

Record-Breaking 100 Million RPS DDoS Attack Exploits HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Flaw 26/10/2023 at 17:16 By Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, 89 of which exceeded 100 million requests per second (RPS). “The campaign contributed to an overall increase