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Oracle’s revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs 24/07/2023 at 16:47 By Lindsay Clark One in five users can expect an audit in the next three years Most organizations adapting to Oracle’s new licensing terms for Java expect the per-employee subscription model to be two to five times more expensive than the […]

Critical Zero-Days in Atera Windows Installers Expose Users to Privilege Escalation Attacks 24/07/2023 at 16:18 By Zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows Installers for the Atera remote monitoring and management software could act as a springboard to launch privilege escalation attacks. The flaws, discovered by Mandiant on February 28, 2023, have been assigned the identifiers CVE-2023-26077 and CVE-2023-26078, with the

How to Protect Patients and Their Privacy in Your SaaS Apps 24/07/2023 at 16:18 By The healthcare industry is under a constant barrage of cyberattacks. It has traditionally been one of the most frequently targeted industries, and things haven’t changed in 2023. The U.S. Government’s Office for Civil Rights reported 145 data breaches in the United States

Google Messages Getting Cross-Platform End-to-End Encryption with MLS Protocol 24/07/2023 at 16:18 By Google has announced that it intends to add support for Message Layer Security (MLS) to its Messages service for Android and open source implementation of the specification. “Most modern consumer messaging platforms (including Google Messages) support end-to-end encryption, but users today are

AMD mulls new chip manufacturing partners amid supply chain jitters 24/07/2023 at 15:49 By Dan Robinson TSMC has too much capacity when China has made no secret of its desire for Taiwan AMD is considering broadening chip production suppliers as it believes it is too reliant on semiconductor giant TSMC and this places the supply

Twitter name and blue bird logo to be ‘blowtorched’ off company branding 24/07/2023 at 14:48 By Paul Kunert X marks the rot: It’s Elon’s fave letter and way forward for the ‘everything app’ Mercurial billionaire Elon Musk has ditched the Twitter brand name in favor of a white “X” on a black background, and is

New OpenSSH Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems to Remote Command Injection 24/07/2023 at 14:03 By Details have emerged about a now-patched flaw in OpenSSH that could be potentially exploited to run arbitrary commands remotely on compromised hosts under specific conditions. “This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent,”

BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28 24/07/2023 at 12:47 By Dan Robinson More puffins than people on Lundy, and no one wants to say how much it cost BT and satellite operator OneWeb are now providing internet access to the island of Lundy as part of the UK

World’s most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it’s sillier than it seems 24/07/2023 at 11:41 By Rupert Goodwins What do you call an air-gapped Googler? Anything you like, they can’t hear you Opinion  It seems intuitively obvious. Disconnect your PC from the internet, and it’s safe from attack. Google thinks enough of

Banking Sector Targeted in Open-Source Software Supply Chain Attacks 24/07/2023 at 11:17 By Cybersecurity researchers said they have discovered what they say is the first open-source software supply chain attacks specifically targeting the banking sector. “These attacks showcased advanced techniques, including targeting specific components in web assets of the victim bank by attaching malicious functionalities

Alibaba opts out of Ant Group stock buyback 24/07/2023 at 09:27 By Laura Dobberstein Sign of confidence or … something bigger? Alibaba will not participate in a planned share buyback of its fintech arm, Ant Group, according to a regulatory filing lodged with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Sunday.… This article is an excerpt

Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites 22/07/2023 at 18:17 By Tobias Mann Web super-biz dreams of lobbing 3,000-plus internet-relay birds into orbit Amazon is building a $120 million facility at the Kennedy Space Center, on Florida’s Cape Canaveral, where it’ll prepare Project Kuiper internet-relaying satellites for launch.… This

Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light 22/07/2023 at 11:45 By Tobias Mann How does more natural gas consumption contribute to Redmond’s eco dream? Unable to secure a steady supply of power from Ireland’s national power grid, Microsoft has elected to build its own power plant to keep its €900 million datacenter

Apple Threatens to Pull iMessage and FaceTime from U.K. Amid Surveillance Demands 22/07/2023 at 09:31 By Apple has warned that it would rather stop offering iMessage and FaceTime services in the U.K. than bowing down to government pressure in response to new proposals that seek to expand digital surveillance powers available to state intelligence agencies.

Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet 22/07/2023 at 03:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Still, judge finds ‘reason to believe’ Feds are getting better at not abusing snooping powers The FBI improperly spied on a US senator, a state senator, and a state-level judge, among others, according to a previously

Myanmar’s government in exile throws support behind launch of crypto-based bank 22/07/2023 at 03:32 By Laura Dobberstein Ousted opposition seeks ways to circumvent military junta and access resources In the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, the exiled government is betting on cryptocurrency to help it overthrow a military junta as it backs the Saturday launch

Fear not, White House chatted to OpenAI and pals, and they promised to make AI safe 22/07/2023 at 03:05 By Katyanna Quach Nice one, Joe, get those non-binding voluntary pledges in early Seven top AI development houses have promised to test their models, share research, and develop methods to watermark machine-generated content in a bid

Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes 22/07/2023 at 02:03 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle How does the Azure giant come back from this? A stolen Microsoft security key may have allowed Beijing-backed spies to break into a lot more than just Outlook and Exchange Online email accounts.…

VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users 22/07/2023 at 00:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle File under PEBCAK VirusTotal today issued a mea cupla, saying a blunder earlier this week by one of its staff exposed information belonging to 5,600 customers, including the email addresses of US Cyber Command, FBI, and NSA employees.… This

US Air Force’s Angry Kitten turns Reaper drone into fierce feline of electronic warfare 21/07/2023 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hardware from a decade ago? More like grumpy old mog The US Air Force is turning to an unlikely place to beef up its electronic warfare countermeasures: a decade-old aircraft-mounted pod known as the “Angry