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UK courts award CGI £60M deal to keep ancient tech alive 19/09/2023 at 13:02 By Lindsay Clark Legacy – sorry ‘heritage’ – support contract includes case managements systems The UK courts have awarded CGI a contract worth up to £60 million ($74.2 million) to keep its “heritage application” up and running after the much-delayed implementation […]

Over 12,000 Juniper Firewalls Found Vulnerable to Recently Disclosed RCE Vulnerability 19/09/2023 at 13:02 By New research has found that close to 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper firewall devices are vulnerable to a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw. VulnCheck, which discovered a new exploit for CVE-2023-36845, said it could be exploited by an “unauthenticated and remote attacker to execute arbitrary

Ubuntu’s ‘Mantic Minotaur’ peeks out of the labyrinth 19/09/2023 at 12:17 By Liam Proven As outline becomes visible, including the return of ZFS, kernel 6.4 glides across the Styx into eternity The next release of Ubuntu will appear in mid-October, and the latest daily builds reveal some of the features of the forthcoming interim release.…

BT confirms it’s switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year 19/09/2023 at 11:47 By Dan Robinson Time to retire that Nokia N97 at last? BT has updated the schedule to phase out 3G services from its networks a little later than planned, saying this will now start early next year.… This article is

Excel clone built for Uber China exposed Microsoft calculation error 19/09/2023 at 10:32 By Simon Sharwood Developer recounts rideshare giant’s strange Middle Kingdom journey, and its fears interns were spies A developer named Matt Basta has posted an extraordinary account of working for Uber, where he was asked to develop a substitute for Microsoft’s Excel

Transparent Tribe Uses Fake YouTube Android Apps to Spread CapraRAT Malware 19/09/2023 at 10:31 By The suspected Pakistan-linked threat actor known as Transparent Tribe is using malicious Android apps mimicking YouTube to distribute the CapraRAT mobile remote access trojan (RAT), demonstrating the continued evolution of the activity. “CapraRAT is a highly invasive tool that gives the attacker

Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while 19/09/2023 at 09:35 By Simon Sharwood Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon AI-on-the-desktop is not yet a thing, and its uses may not be apparent for some time, according to

China to set standards for the metaverse because it’s not sure what one is 19/09/2023 at 08:17 By Laura Dobberstein Beijing reckons they could be handy for manufacturing, but for now they’re just a mess China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced Monday it will form a working group to set metaverse standards

Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Expose 38 Terabytes of Confidential Data 19/09/2023 at 07:17 By Microsoft on Monday said it took steps to correct a glaring security gaffe that led to the exposure of 38 terabytes of private data. The leak was discovered on the company’s AI GitHub repository and is said to have been inadvertently

Australia to build six ‘cyber shields’ to defend its shores 19/09/2023 at 06:47 By Simon Sharwood Local corporate regulator warns boards that cyber is totally a directorial duty Australia will build “six cyber shields around our nation” declared home affairs minister Clare O’Neill yesterday, as part of a national cyber security strategy.… This article is

VMware staff reportedly told job cuts may start before Broadcom acquisition 19/09/2023 at 05:17 By Simon Sharwood CVs are starting to appear on social media because staff think it’s a sensible time to be in the shop window VMware last week held a staff meeting at which it reportedly foreshadowed job cuts – perhaps before

US Defense Department enlists Google for AI-powered cancer-spotting kit 19/09/2023 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach A different type of ARM – the Augmented Reality Microscope Google has contributed software to an AI-powered microscope the US Department of Defense hopes will help pathologists spot cancerous cells in tissue samples much more quickly.… This article is an

World’s most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second 19/09/2023 at 03:03 By Katyanna Quach US DoE particle will be a ‘strobe light’ in atomic disco The world’s most powerful publicly known X-ray laser at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has fired its first pulses with an

Thousands of Juniper Junos firewalls still open to hijacks, exploit code available to all 19/09/2023 at 01:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Flaws fixed in August, admins seem to have taken the summer off About 79 percent of public-facing Juniper SRX firewalls remain vulnerable to a single security flaw can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely

Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging 19/09/2023 at 01:02 By Tobias Mann Don’t get too excited, tech won’t be ready until the end of the decade Intel’s latest gambit to keep Moores’ Law on life support involves ditching organic substrates — the intermediary through which data and power flows on

SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale 19/09/2023 at 00:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it Ride sharing firm Lyft has agreed to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission $10 million to settle charges that it failed to

Nuance Communications announces data breach affecting healthcare 18/09/2023 at 23:46 By St. Luke’s Health Systems in Boise, Idaho informed patients of a data breach involving Nuance Communications and MOVEit Transfer software. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Former CIO accuses Penn State of faking cybersecurity compliance 18/09/2023 at 23:20 By Thomas Claburn Now-NASA boffin not impressed Last October, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) was sued by a former chief information officer for allegedly falsifying government security compliance reports.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure 18/09/2023 at 22:43 By Brandon Vigliarolo Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp Panos Panay, Microsoft chief product officer and VP for devices, abruptly announced his departure today after 19 years with the company. … This article

Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google 18/09/2023 at 21:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo ITC judge rules you can’t sue over invalid patents, but the fight goes on The years-long legal drama resulting from a brief fling between Google and smart speaker maker Sonos has resulted in another loss for the Chocolate Factory,