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Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can’t fill the gap 2024-02-20 at 05:01 By Simon Sharwood Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers Australia needs an exascale computer system, and a refresh of its current HPC fleet, but lacks a plan or […]

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LockBit ransomware gang disrupted by global operation 2024-02-20 at 03:31 By Simon Sharwood Website has been seized and replaced with law enforcement logos from eleven nations Notorious ransomware gang LockBit’s website has been taken over by law enforcement authorities, who claim they have disrupted the group’s operations and will soon reveal the extent of an

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Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage 2024-02-19 at 20:17 By Richard Speed Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering A Japanese satellite lofted by Rocket Lab is to monitor a chunk of space junk ahead of future missions designed to curtail orbital debris.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems 2024-02-19 at 19:16 By Katyanna Quach Careful prompting can beat training a model from scratch Interview  Commercial large language models’ abilities to solve competitive programming problems can be significantly boosted by carefully guiding its processes through clever prompt engineering.… This article is an excerpt

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What’s going on with Eos, Nvidia’s incredible shrinking supercomputer? 2024-02-19 at 18:17 By Tobias Mann It’ll have 10K GPUs! No, 4,608! Err… 2,816? Analysis  Nvidia can’t seem to make up its mind just how big its Eos supercomputer is.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground 2024-02-19 at 17:02 By Richard Speed Danger to humans? Less than ‘1 in 100 billion’, says agency ESA’s ERS-2 satellite is heading back to Earth this week and some substantial fragments are likely to survive re-entry, although the chances of anyone being injured by

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ALPHV gang claims it’s the attacker that broke into Prudential Financial, LoanDepot 2024-02-19 at 16:17 By Connor Jones Ransomware group continues to exploit US regulatory requirements to its advantage The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group is claiming responsibility for attacks on both Prudential Financial and LoanDepot, making a series of follow-on allegations against them.… This article is

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The Department of State offers $10M for information on ALPHV/Blackcat 2024-02-19 at 16:02 By Anyone who can provide information regarding key members or conspirators of ALPHV/Blackcat may be offered a monetary reward.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Meta Warns of 8 Spyware Firms Targeting iOS, Android, and Windows Devices 2024-02-19 at 15:46 By Meta Platforms said it took a series of steps to curtail malicious activity from eight different firms based in Italy, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) operating in the surveillance-for-hire industry. The findings are part of its Adversarial Threat

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City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment 2024-02-19 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI The City of London is searching for a systems integrator to help it make the leap to the cloud after

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Virgin Media to stand up rival network operator to BT Openreach 2024-02-19 at 15:17 By Dan Robinson NetCo hoping to eat some of the pie by opening network plumbing to ISPs UK telco Virgin Media is opening up its fixed line broadband networks to other internet service providers (ISPs) for the first time, setting up

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Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative announces its priorities for 2024 2024-02-19 at 15:16 By The 2024 priorities of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative aim to secure against immediate and evolving cyber risks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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How to Achieve the Best Risk-Based Alerting (Bye-Bye SIEM) 2024-02-19 at 14:32 By Did you know that Network Detection and Response (NDR) has become the most effective technology to detect cyber threats? In contrast to SIEM, NDR offers adaptive cybersecurity with reduced false alerts and efficient threat response. Are you aware of Network Detection and Response

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Anatsa Android Trojan Bypasses Google Play Security, Expands Reach to New Countries 2024-02-19 at 13:31 By The Android banking trojan known as Anatsa has expanded its focus to include Slovakia, Slovenia, and Czechia as part of a new campaign observed in November 2023. “Some of the droppers in the campaign successfully exploited the accessibility service, despite Google

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British businesses told: Compliance with EU AI law will satisfy UK guidance 2024-02-19 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark Keep calm and innovate or regulate before it’s too late? With the UK launching its guidance for governing AI development and deployment last week, legal experts are warning that most organizations will look to the proposed EU

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Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI 2024-02-19 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Expect it to be stable in June, ready for release sometime after July Google has delivered the first developer preview of Android 15.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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India effectively kills e-wallet used by over 300 million 2024-02-19 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Paytm’s merchant services will live on, but its main consumer product looks be toast India’s government has effectively killed an e-wallet service used by over 300 million people.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Russian-Linked Hackers Breach 80+ Organizations via Roundcube Flaws 2024-02-19 at 07:46 By Threat actors operating with interests aligned to Belarus and Russia have been linked to a new cyber espionage campaign that likely exploited cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Roundcube webmail servers to target over 80 organizations. These entities are primarily located in Georgia, Poland,

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Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation 2024-02-19 at 07:32 By Laura Dobberstein Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and pals promise they’ll try very hard to keep AI nasties off the ‘net Twenty prominent names in tech have signed an accord outlining their intentions to

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Iranian Hackers Target Middle East Policy Experts with New BASICSTAR Backdoor 2024-02-19 at 07:01 By The Iranian-origin threat actor known as Charming Kitten has been linked to a new set of attacks aimed at Middle East policy experts with a new backdoor called BASICSTAR by creating a fake webinar portal. Charming Kitten, also called APT35, CharmingCypress, Mint

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