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EPIC urges watchdog to probe Grindr’s data privacy – or alleged lack thereof 06/10/2023 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Dating app kept sensitive info even after peeps deleted accounts, complaint claims Grindr isn’t doing a very good job protecting its users’ private information, including their NSFW photos, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center […]

Amazon to launch first Project Kuiper internet satellites 06/10/2023 at 00:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bezos’ Blue Origin not involved this time – now that’s a blue origin It’s been a long time coming, but Amazon is finally launching its first two Project Kuiper internet-relay satellites into orbit tomorrow, October 6, but don’t expect Bezos’ Starlink

Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats 05/10/2023 at 23:47 By Tobias Mann Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power RISC-V’s open source instruction set has attracted a lot of attention over the past few years and not just here on Earth – a team at ETH Zurich in Switzerland

Cisco warns of critical flaw in Emergency Responder code 05/10/2023 at 22:47 By Thomas Claburn Hard-coded credentials strike again Cisco has issued a security advisory about a vulnerability in its Emergency Responder software that would allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to log in to an affected device using the root account.… This article is an

X confuses the masses by removing all details from links 05/10/2023 at 22:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo And in other news, lenders complain Musk needs to go Elon Musk has made good on threats to strip links in Xitter posts of anything but a domain name and image.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

FEMA releases results of wireless emergency alert test 05/10/2023 at 22:01 By The Federal Emergency Management Agency released the results of their national wireless emergency alerts (WEA) and emergency alert system (EAS) test. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Another security update, Apple? You’re really keeping up with your tech rivals 05/10/2023 at 21:32 By Richard Speed Zero day? More like every day, amirite? Apple has demonstrated that it can more than hold its own among the tech giants, at least in terms of finding itself on the wrong end of zero-day vulnerabilities.… This

Improving defense of US space assets isn’t rocket science. Oh wait 05/10/2023 at 20:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Can Booz Allen Hamilton get systems engineered with $630M and 7 years? The US Space Force is doing something about its underdeveloped ability to detect threats with the award of a $630 million contract to Booz Allen Hamilton

Taiwan looks into claims local companies helped Huawei advance China chipmaking 05/10/2023 at 19:46 By Dan Robinson Plus: EU is looking its own strategic export controls – and not just to China Taiwan is said to be investigating whether local companies have been helping Huawei to set up chip factories in China, despite US restrictions.

When is a PC an AI PC? Nobody seems to know or wants to tell 05/10/2023 at 19:17 By Paul Kunert HP and Lenovo developing machines with LLMs – maybe it’ll be in the price? Canalys EMEA Forum 2023  Execs at the biggest PC makers seem to be salivating at the prospect of AI computers

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 05/10/2023 at 18:32 By Richard Speed It’s a great advert for Ubuntu anyway Windows 10 may be just over a year away from the ax, but its successor, Windows 11, appears to be as unpopular as ever.… This article is an excerpt from

Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard 05/10/2023 at 17:32 By Thomas Claburn US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty Exclusive  A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping

False Amazon callers one of the top phone scams in 2023 05/10/2023 at 17:32 By Phone call fraud and spam callers were analyzed in a recent report by Hiya, finding Amazon impersonation scams in the top scams of 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

How PEAK framework can enhance threat hunting programs 05/10/2023 at 17:32 By A properly constructed threat hunting program is one of the most effective ways to drive positive change across an organization’s entire security posture.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025 05/10/2023 at 16:48 By Paul Kunert And the repair parts will be repairable too. Batteries, SSDs and more will no longer be sealed into casing Canalys EMEA Forum 2023  Lenovo is forecasting that the vast majority of its devices will be

QakBot Threat Actors Still in Action, Using Ransom Knight and Remcos RAT in Latest Attacks 05/10/2023 at 16:47 By Despite the disruption to its infrastructure, the threat actors behind the QakBot malware have been linked to an ongoing phishing campaign since early August 2023 that led to the delivery of Ransom Knight (aka Cyclops) ransomware

BYOD should stand for bring your own disaster, according to Microsoft ransomware data 05/10/2023 at 16:17 By Connor Jones Rising number of RaaS baddies drive global attack numbers up 200% Microsoft research says that 80-90 percent of ransomware attacks over the past year originated from unmanaged devices.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Report: Ransomware dwell time hits low of 24 hours 05/10/2023 at 16:01 By Analysis from new annual report shows ransomware median dwell time has dropped from 4.5 days to less than 24 hours in a year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator’s eye as cloud market probe confirmed 05/10/2023 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs Watch out, Amazon and Microsoft – the UK’s competition watchdog this morning confirmed it will investigate the big cloud infrastructure services players.… This article is an excerpt from The

Cisco Releases Urgent Patch to Fix Critical Flaw in Emergency Responder Systems 05/10/2023 at 15:16 By Cisco has released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Emergency Responder that allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to sign into susceptible systems using hard-coded credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20101 (CVSS score: 9.8), is due to the presence of static