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New Report Uncovers Three Distinct Clusters of China-Nexus Attacks on Southeast Asian Government 25/09/2023 at 10:47 By An unnamed Southeast Asian government has been targeted by multiple China-nexus threat actors as part of espionage campaigns targeting the region over extended periods of time. “While this activity occurred around the same time and in some instances […]

OSIRIS-REx succesfully delivers NASA’s first asteroid sample 25/09/2023 at 09:37 By Laura Dobberstein Molto Bennu NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission delivered on Sunday, when the OSIRIS-REx capsule touched down in the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 25/09/2023 at 08:34 By Simon Sharwood The blind think this is not a visionary decision Google will discontinue the Basic HTML version of its Gmail service in January 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers 25/09/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators Dell has decided that users of its older servers deserve the chance to run data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs) – cards that combine networking

T-mobile exposes some customer data – but don’t call it a breach 25/09/2023 at 05:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo PLUS: Trojan hidden in PoC; cyber insurance surge; pig butchering’s new cuts; and the week’s critical vulns Infosec in brief  T-Mobile has had another bad week on the infosec front – this time stemming from a system

How TCP’s congestion control saved the internet 24/09/2023 at 17:23 By Bruce Davie We guess it’s OK it did Systems Approach  With the annual SIGCOMM conference taking place this month, we observed that congestion control still gets an hour in the program, 35 years after the first paper on TCP congestion control was published. So

Deadglyph: New Advanced Backdoor with Distinctive Malware Tactics 23/09/2023 at 14:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented advanced backdoor dubbed Deadglyph employed by a threat actor known as Stealth Falcon as part of a cyber espionage campaign. “Deadglyph’s architecture is unusual as it consists of cooperating components – one a native x64 binary, the other

Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 23/09/2023 at 14:19 By Thomas Claburn Can you blame it? Europe’s Digital Markets Act, which goes into effect next year, will require that companies designated as gatekeepers provide users of most popular operating systems with browser choice screens that

VR headsets to shift 30 million units a year by 2027, vastly behind wearables 23/09/2023 at 11:03 By Simon Sharwood The eyes don’t have it, but you’re all ears Analyst firm IDC has forecast strong growth for virtual reality headwear, but even stronger growth for more modest wearables, with the latter to vastly outsell the

Apple and Chrome Zero-Days Exploited to Hack Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware 23/09/2023 at 10:02 By The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023.

Uncle Sam is this keen to keep US CHIPS funds out of China 23/09/2023 at 04:32 By Tobias Mann Meanwhile, GlobalFoundries scores $3B DoD contract to fab chips for military, aerospace The Biden Administration on Friday said it had finalized guardrails to ensure payouts from the $50 billion CHIPS Act don’t flow into the hands

Colleges snub Turnitin’s AI-writing detector over fears it’ll wrongly accuse students 23/09/2023 at 03:18 By Katyanna Quach By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway Some universities are opting out of using Turnitin-made software designed to detect whether text in essays and assignments submitted by students was written by AI.…

Unity apologizes, offers furious game devs a tweaked runtime install fee plan 23/09/2023 at 02:34 By Thomas Claburn Is this the engine maker’s final continue? Game engine maker Unity on Friday walked back part of its controversial plan to charge developers a fee based on the number of game downloads installed.… This article is an

IBM’s Weather Company leaked my personal info to analytics, thunders netizen 23/09/2023 at 00:17 By Thomas Claburn Video watching habits and other data handed over, lawsuit claims A lawsuit brought against IBM’s Weather Company claims the website “knowingly and willfully disclosed its users’ personally identifiable information – including a record of every video viewed by

Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware 22/09/2023 at 23:02 By Chris Williams Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed up after tip off from Google, Citizen Lab Apple has emitted patches this week to close security holes that have been exploited in the wild by commercial spyware.… This article is

Europa’s subsurface ocean source of CO2 found on surface 22/09/2023 at 21:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hey, ESA – can Juice get there any faster? The search for alien life in our solar system has heated up with the discovery of carbon dioxide on Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is believed to house a massive, salty liquid

US military F-35 readiness problems highlighted in aptly timed report 22/09/2023 at 21:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo This surely can’t be related to that crash debacle over the weekend, right? The reason a US Marine Corps pilot ejected from his F-35B stealth fighter jet last weekend remains unknown, but a government agency report on the dismal

FAA wants rocket jockeys to clean up after their space launch parties 22/09/2023 at 20:02 By Dan Robinson Have you seen orbit? There’s junk everywhere The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed rules for commercial space launch companies to address orbital debris, a growing threat to spacecraft and satellites.… This article is an excerpt

UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement 22/09/2023 at 18:47 By Lindsay Clark So much for sovereignty then The UK has used a statutory instrument to introduce new rules designed to allow the sharing of personal data between the island nation and the US in compliance with data protection

Risk management legislation introduced to House of Representatives 22/09/2023 at 18:17 By The National Risk Management Act, designed to strengthen the defense of critical infrastructure, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source