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Northern Ireland top cop quits in wake of data breach and disciplinary controversy 05/09/2023 at 14:51 By Jude Karabus Simon Byrne faced backlash over FoI blunder, plus claims officers were ‘punished’ to appease Sinn Féin Northern Ireland’s police chief, Simon Byrne, resigned last night after an emergency meeting of the Policing Board amid discontent in […]

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CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display 05/09/2023 at 13:51 By Liam Proven Elecrow’s dual-screen peripheral is more versatile and cheaper than the old Lenovo version CrowView is a 14-inch USB-C monitor with a cunning folding stand-cum-clamp system which allows it to attach to most sizes of laptop for some more pixels on the move.…

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Three years after setting off, Bus Open Data Service wants consultants to help it on its journey 05/09/2023 at 13:02 By Lindsay Clark UK tender hopes to boost beleaguered local bus services The UK’s Department for Transport is promising a £24 million ($30 million) contract to a tech biz that can help set up a

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Snowflake’s Instacart protestations hint at challenges for poster child of the data cloud 05/09/2023 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark If customers can slash bills by ‘optimizing,’ what does that mean for revenue? Opinion  Snowflake should have been enjoying positive results at the end of last month. Revenue for the second for the quarter was $674.0

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IBM Cloud to ‘uplift’ prices by up to 29 percent 05/09/2023 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood All PaaS, including RedShift, gets a three-point bump. IaaS users outside the US get the nastiest numbers IBM has announced price rises for its cloud services, effective January 1, 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Meta Takes Down Thousands of Accounts Involved in Disinformation Ops from China and Russia 05/09/2023 at 10:00 By Meta has disclosed that it disrupted two of the largest known covert influence operations in the world from China and Russia, blocking thousands of accounts and pages across its platform. “It targeted more than 50 apps, including

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Guild behind actors’ strike fears video game workers also at risk from AI 05/09/2023 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Authorizes strike for voice and motion capture talent at major game studios The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has authorized its members employed in the interactive media industry at giant

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CISO’s Corner: Cybersecurity Best Practices: Securing Employee Smartphones 05/09/2023 at 08:16 By Arguably, the most used device by an organization’s employees is their smartphone. Ensuring that anyone, from the CEO to a newcomer being onboarded, knows how to keep this device safe should be paramount. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original

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AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure 05/09/2023 at 07:49 By Simon Sharwood The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more Amazon Web Services has made good on its 2021 promise to retire EC2-Classic – the networking construct that underpinned its initial compute infrastructure-as-a-service offering.… This article

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Yonah Alexander | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Yonah Alexander, Director of the Potomac Institute’s International Center for Terrorism Studies, records historical violence to stop the past repeating itself. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Scott Ashworth | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Scott Ashworth, Head of Safety and Security at Overtime Elite, recalls his work as a police officer and the transition into sports security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Robert Soderberg | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Robert Soderberg, Vice President of Enterprise Safety & Security & Chief Safety, Security & Resiliency Officer at Adtalem Global Education, recalls his career. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Michael Dorn | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Michael Dorn, Executive Director at Safe Havens International, recounts his 40-plus years in the security industry and the lessons he’s learned along the way. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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Matthew Horace | Most Influential People in Security 2023 05/09/2023 at 07:16 By Matthew Horace, Chief Security Officer at Pretium & Progress Residential, has championed security across the government, healthcare and technology sectors. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Want tunes with that? India-made POS terminal includes a speaker 05/09/2023 at 06:17 By Simon Sharwood You read that right: a speaker. Because merchants like music, electronic payments, and $8.50 hardware Indian payments outfit Paytm has launched a point-of-sale unit that incorporates, of all things, a speaker.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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The only thing launched for Amazon’s Project Kuiper is a lawsuit 04/09/2023 at 20:47 By Richard Speed Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk… not the bestest of buddies? An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit on the company alleging it didn’t do its due diligence when it awarded launch contracts for the company’s Project Kuiper satellite

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Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API 04/09/2023 at 19:49 By Richard Speed One more reason to keep them short and sweet Microsoft has announced billing in public preview for Teams recording and transcription APIs, with pricing starting at 3 cents per minute for recordings.… This article is an

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Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm’s Windows 7 rig 04/09/2023 at 18:32 By Richard Speed Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest The risk of running obsolete code and hardware was highlighted after attackers exfiltrated data from a UK supplier of high-security fencing for military bases. The initial entry point? A Windows

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Hackers Exploit MinIO Storage System Vulnerabilities to Compromise Servers 04/09/2023 at 17:32 By An unknown threat actor has been observed weaponizing high-severity security flaws in the MinIO high-performance object storage system to achieve unauthorized code execution on affected servers. Cybersecurity and incident response firm Security Joes said the intrusion leveraged a publicly available exploit chain

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