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Okta Discloses Broader Impact Linked to October 2023 Support System Breach 29/11/2023 at 10:01 By Identity services provider Okta has disclosed that it detected “additional threat actor activity” in connection with the October 2023 breach of its support case management system. “The threat actor downloaded the names and email addresses of all Okta customer support system users,” […]

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Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP 29/11/2023 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred If you want to implement Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistants, don’t expect the software giant’s channel to be much help – they’ve scarcely had a chance

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DJVU Ransomware’s Latest Variant ‘Xaro’ Disguised as Cracked Software 29/11/2023 at 09:16 By A variant of a ransomware strain known as DJVU has been observed to be distributed in the form of cracked software. “While this attack pattern is not new, incidents involving a DJVU variant that appends the .xaro extension to affected files and

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Two sats, one customer: Japan’s mega-carrier NTT signs for Amazon’s space internet 29/11/2023 at 08:33 By Laura Dobberstein Take that, Elon Amazon has won a big and noteworthy client for its Project Kuiper space internet project, with Japanese telecom company NTT signing up for the service.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Zero-Day Alert: Google Chrome Under Active Attack, Exploiting New Vulnerability 29/11/2023 at 08:16 By Google has rolled out security updates to fix seven security issues in its Chrome browser, including a zero-day that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-6345, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as an integer overflow bug in

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GoTitan Botnet Spotted Exploiting Recent Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability 29/11/2023 at 08:16 By The recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Apache ActiveMQ is being actively exploited by threat actors to distribute a new Go-based botnet called GoTitan as well as a .NET program known as PrCtrl Rat that’s capable of remotely commandeering the infected hosts. The attacks involve the exploitation

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VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint 29/11/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a ‘strategic review’ of end-user compute and Carbon Black products VMware president Sumit Dhawan has left the newly-acquired org to join security software vendor Proofpoint as its

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Japan’s digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament 29/11/2023 at 05:47 By Laura Dobberstein His job is to modernise Japan but Googling electoral trivia to ensure accurate answers is not allowed Japan’s digital minister, Taro Kono, faced a backlash on Monday after he attempted to use his smartphone to look up

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Zuckerberg accused of OK’ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids 29/11/2023 at 05:02 By Thomas Claburn ‘Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children … it is now there in black and white’ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of vetoing a proposed ban of Instagram and Facebook

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Someone else has a go at reforming US Section 702 spying powers – and nope, no warrant requirement 29/11/2023 at 04:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Back to plan A, then, eh? Some US lawmakers have tabled alternative legislation to reauthorize the Feds’ favorite snooping tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, before it

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Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal 29/11/2023 at 03:17 By Thomas Claburn Advertisers may be surprised to find where their banners appear Google Search ads paid for by US and EU government agencies and legislators, and by major companies, have been spotted in

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Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant 29/11/2023 at 01:47 By Tim Anderson Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons Re:Invent  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky previewed Amazon Q to 50,000 re:Invent attendees in Las Vegas on Tuesday, touting it as a chat-based generative AI assistant whose

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Bots make up 30% of internet traffic 29/11/2023 at 00:02 By According to a recent DataDome report, 68% of U.S. websites are unprotected against bot attacks and traditional CAPTCHAs are no longer effective. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Plex sharing streaming habits raises privacy hackles 28/11/2023 at 23:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Grandma is watching what?! A Plex “feature” is raising privacy hackles of some users after sharing with others what they are watching on the streaming service — seemingly without their consent.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Virgin Atlantic flies world’s first fossil-fuel free transatlantic commercial flight 28/11/2023 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Sustainable aviation fuel is hot right now as low-emission aviation takes off A Virgin Atlantic 787 took off this morning from London Heathrow bound for New York in the world’s first example of a long-haul commercial flight powered entirely

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AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI 28/11/2023 at 22:02 By Tobias Mann Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too Re:Invent  On Tuesday Amazon Web Services has unveiled its next-gen Graviton4 CPUs and Trainium2 AI accelerators at its Re:Invent shindig, which it claims will deliver a healthy

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Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes 28/11/2023 at 21:47 By Dan Robinson Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames? Datacenter infrastructure biz Vertiv is offering a wooden version of its prefabricated modular structures, claiming these have a reduced carbon footprint compared to steel alternatives.… This article

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Phishing makes up 43% of email attacks 28/11/2023 at 21:36 By According to a recent cybersecurity report by Hornetsecurity, there was a 144% increase in email attacks, with phishing making up 43% of attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Oxford quantum computing spinout announces $100M funding round led by Japan’s SBI 28/11/2023 at 21:03 By Cointelegraph By Tristan Greene OQC is also launching what it calls “the world’s first enterprise ready quantum computing platform.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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They did it for science: 40 years since Spacelab module first launched 28/11/2023 at 20:47 By Richard Speed The legacy lives on, but best not mention that landing, eh? This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Spacelab module aboard astronaut John Young’s final Space Shuttle mission.…

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