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Huawei’s UK tech eviction reportedly caused Sky to fall on mobile customers 29/09/2023 at 16:17 By Dan Robinson Whatever the cause, MNVO customers not happy UK government orders to remove Huawei equipment from Britain’s 5G networks have reportedly led to outages for customers of Sky Mobile.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View […]

CISA, NSA, FBI and Japan warn of BlackTech, PRC-linked cyber activity 29/09/2023 at 16:16 By CISA has recently published a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory about malicious activity by People’s Republic of China (PRC)-linked cyber actors known as BlackTech. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Security leaders discuss implications as Sony investigates recent cyber attack 29/09/2023 at 16:01 By Here, security leaders discuss their thoughts on the most recent alleged Sony attack and what lessons can be learned. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Lazarus Group Impersonates Recruiter from Meta to Target Spanish Aerospace Firm 29/09/2023 at 16:01 By The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been linked to a cyber espionage attack targeting an unnamed aerospace company in Spain in which employees of the firm were approached by the threat actor posing as a recruiter for Meta. “Employees of the targeted

Contract for England’s controversial health data platform delayed 29/09/2023 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark NHS also launches £2M project to engage patients with data strategy The contract award for the £480 million ($588 million) NHS Federated Data Platform – a huge analytics project for one of the world’s largest healthcare providers – has been delayed

5 strategies for advocating for a security budget increase 29/09/2023 at 15:17 By To bolster the case for budget increases, it is imperative for CSOs to possess an understanding of the factors contributing to security breaches. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

A preventative approach to school safety in 2023 29/09/2023 at 15:16 By Staff and students need access to comprehensive training on how to identify concerning behaviors and how to raise these concerns when necessary. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Finally Real in Consumer Apps? 29/09/2023 at 15:03 By Most people are barely thinking about basic cybersecurity, let alone post-quantum cryptography. But the impact of a post-quantum world is coming for them regardless of whether or not it’s keeping them up tonight.  Today, many rely on encryption in their daily lives to protect

Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong? 29/09/2023 at 14:17 By Iain Thomson Or very right? Either way, it’s not the usual atomic op we see in IT Kettle  The growth of electricity-hungry datacenters is causing some operators to fear for their power security and consider the nuclear option. In this week’s Kettle The Register discusses

Mozilla’s midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google’s weird neighbor 29/09/2023 at 13:02 By Liam Proven Can the sleeping fox ever wake up? Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.… This article is an excerpt

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Bing Chat Ads May Lead Users to Malware-Distributing Sites 29/09/2023 at 12:47 By Malicious ads served inside Microsoft Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from Malwarebytes, which revealed that unsuspecting users can be tricked into visiting booby-trapped sites and installing

CNCF’s chief techie talks WebAssembly, AI and licenses 29/09/2023 at 11:47 By Richard Speed Or how one pesky press release ruined a vacation Interview  One victim of HashiCorp’s license change was the vacation of Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Progress Software Releases Urgent Hotfixes for Multiple Security Flaws in WS_FTP Server 29/09/2023 at 10:01 By Progress Software has released hotfixes for a critical security vulnerability, alongside seven other flaws, in the WS_FTP Server Ad hoc Transfer Module and in the WS_FTP Server manager interface. Tracked as CVE-2023-40044, the flaw has a CVSS score of 10.0,

AMD’s latest FPGA promises super low latency AI for Flash Boy traders 29/09/2023 at 09:47 By Tobias Mann Letting more advanced ML loose on the stock market? What could possibly go wrong? AMD has refreshed its Alveo field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), promising a sevenfold improvement in operating latency and the ability to run more complex

Infosys launches aviation cloud it claims can halve lost luggage 29/09/2023 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein Also optimises routes and tames crowds, but can’t stop that person who just reclined into your knees Infosys has sent a digital transformation platform for commercial airlines down the runway and claims it could reduce lost luggage by fifty

Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators 29/09/2023 at 07:50 By Laura Dobberstein Skipper caught on tape saying ‘What have I done? My career is gone’ after crashing into coral reef after a couple of whiskeys Japan’s Transport Safety Board on Thursday judged that a cargo ship that spilled 1,000 tons of

Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira 29/09/2023 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood Just in time to get Atlassian’s latest cross-team collab bits Red Hat has revealed it’s binned the Bugzilla defect-tracking system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in favour of Atlassian’s Jira.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in IOS and IOS XE Software After Exploitation Attempts 29/09/2023 at 06:16 By Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The medium-severity vulnerability is tracked

Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling 29/09/2023 at 05:45 By Simon Sharwood 30th birthday post reveals 2004 disaster movie continues to influence company strategy Supermicro’s founder, president and CEO Charles Liang has suggested a fifth of datacenters – maybe more – will need to adopt liquid cooling in coming years.…

Medium asks AI bot crawlers: Please, please don’t scrape bloggers’ musings 29/09/2023 at 04:48 By Katyanna Quach OpenAI might respect robots.txt but dunno about the others Blogging platform Medium would like organizations to not scrape its articles without permission to train up AI models, though it admitted this policy will be difficult to enforce.… This