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Grant Shapps named UK defense supremo in latest ‘tech-savvy’ Tory tale 31/08/2023 at 17:04 By Jude Karabus He praised Apple for its ‘open source’ tech – enough to make you WannaCry Comment  British politician Grant Shapps, who once told The Register that an incoming* Tory government would be the “most tech-savvy in history,” has been […]

North Korean Hackers Deploy New Malicious Python Packages in PyPI Repository 31/08/2023 at 16:32 By Three additional malicious Python packages have been discovered in the Package Index (PyPI) repository as part of an ongoing malicious software supply chain campaign called VMConnect, with signs pointing to the involvement of North Korean state-sponsored threat actors. The findings come from ReversingLabs,

Threat-Loaded: Malicious PDFs Never Go Out of Style 31/08/2023 at 16:02 By Bernard Bautista Introduction In the realm of cybersecurity, danger hides where we least expect it and threats never, ever, go out of style! This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

Microsoft’s Teams bundle bungle given a European makeover 31/08/2023 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings Microsoft has blinked first in its dispute with the EU over bundling Teams with Microsoft 365 and Office 365, and will now allow European customers

Air-gapped advantages in a non-air-gapped world 31/08/2023 at 15:31 By Through careful planning, leaders can create an effective air-gapped environment for cloud-native applications, that will limit exposure to breaches. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Arm wrestles assembly language guru’s domains away citing trademark issues 31/08/2023 at 15:17 By Tobias Mann Maria Markstedter spent years writing about chip biz’s ISA, is a tad miffed by heavy-handed takedown tactics If you fancy creating a blog or website to discuss the Arm architecture or the Softbank-owned outfit that develops it, keep the

Numbers Don’t Lie: Exposing the Harsh Truths of Cyberattacks in New Report 31/08/2023 at 15:16 By How often do cyberattacks happen? How frequently do threat actors target businesses and governments around the world? The BlackBerry® Threat Research and Intelligence Team recently analyzed 90 days of real-world data to answer these questions. Full results are in

With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome’s translation language 31/08/2023 at 14:01 By Liam Proven It also beats its main rival in some speed tests now The latest version of the flagship FOSS browser is out, and it’s picked up one of the main features for which we keep Chrome around.… This article is an

Another thing AI is better at than you: First-person drone racing 31/08/2023 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark May as well give up already A fully autonomous flight AI has steered a drone through a racetrack faster than human pilots in the fledgling sport of first-person view (FPV) drone racing.… This article is an excerpt from

Earth Estries’ Espionage Campaign Targets Governments and Tech Titans Across Continents 31/08/2023 at 12:46 By A hacking outfit nicknamed Earth Estries has been attributed to a new, ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting government and technology industries based in the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, and the U.S. “The threat actors behind Earth Estries are working with

We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald’s machines always broken? 31/08/2023 at 11:47 By Richard Currie iFixit takes aim at the John-Deere-for-frozen-milk situation Having won victories for iPhone and tractor owners alike, the right-to-repair crusaders at iFixit are turning to the really important stuff as summer enters its last death throes

Germany’s wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests 31/08/2023 at 10:33 By Katyanna Quach Scientists one step closer to cracking the case of these atomic swine You may be surprised to know that Germany’s wild boars are too radioactive to eat – and Chernobyl may not be solely

As VMware says goodbye, leadership thinks Broadcom buy is a win 31/08/2023 at 10:17 By Simon Sharwood Exec chuffed regulators accepted perhaps-overstated lame duck argument “You write what you need to win.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

CISA Unveils Upcoming Cybersecurity Strategic Plan 31/08/2023 at 08:31 By The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released its 2024-2026 Cybersecurity Strategic Plan, which the agency says will change the trajectory of our national cybersecurity risk by focusing not just on how to defend but developing metrics to measure progress. This article is an excerpt

Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product 31/08/2023 at 08:17 By Simon Sharwood CEC-IDE is re-skinned Visual Studio Code with added censorware to spot terms like ‘Taiwan Independence’ Chinese consultancy Digital Guandong has apologized after publishing a product based on open source code from Microsoft without properly disclosing that

China’s top RISC-V players form patent alliance 31/08/2023 at 05:48 By Simon Sharwood This sort of group usually sees members share IP and vow not to sue each other, to accelerate innovation Nine of China’s most prominent explorers and purveyors of processors built on the permissively licensed RISC-V architecture have formed a patent alliance.… This

OpenAI urges court to throw out authors’ claims in AI copyright battle 31/08/2023 at 04:32 By Katyanna Quach ChatGPT’s prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues OpenAI is trying to dismiss various claims in two legal actions launched by authors and comedians, who sued the machine-learning super-lab for scraping their books to train ChatGPT

Oracle Cloud and Azure go down, hard, Down Under 31/08/2023 at 04:17 By Simon Sharwood Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up Oracle and Microsoft’s clouds have gone down, hard, in the Sydney, Australia, region likely due to an issue at a datacenter provider in which both are

Oracle Cloud goes down, hard, Down Under 31/08/2023 at 02:47 By Simon Sharwood Sydney region went to bed early and is struggling to wake up Oracle’s cloud has gone down, hard, in its Sydney, Australia region.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Barracuda gateway attacks: How Chinese snoops keep a grip on victims’ networks 31/08/2023 at 02:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Backdoors detailed, plus CISA releases more IOCs for IT depts to check Nearly a third of organizations compromised by Chinese cyberspies via a critical bug in some Barracuda Email Security Gateways were government units, according to