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VBScript nudged nearer to the grave with next big Windows 11 update 2024-05-23 at 17:16 By Richard Speed The writing’s on the wall for veteran scripting language Microsoft has sent Windows 11 24H2 into the Release Preview channel and confirmed that VBScript will be starting its journey to full deprecation by becoming an on-by-default Feature […]

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70% of CISOs worry their org is at risk of a material cyber attack 2024-05-23 at 16:46 By Jessica Lyons Wait, why do you want this job again? Chief information security officers around the globe “are nervously looking over the horizon,” according to a survey of 1,600 CISOs that found more than two thirds (70

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Nvidia beats market expectations again, but for how long? 2024-05-23 at 16:17 By Dan Robinson 262% topline increases won’t last forever, amid market worries that mega AI investments won’t pay off… Nvidia has turned in another set of sizzling results on the back of AI-driven demand for its products, yet industry watchers are increasingly wondering

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Teradata takes plunge into lakehouse waters, but not everyone is convinced 2024-05-23 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark We have not changed our minds, the industry has evolved, data warehouse stalwart claims With its vision of a unified enterprise data warehouse, Teradata attracted globally dominant customers including HSBC, Unilever and Walmart. But earlier this month, it

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UK PM Sunak calls election, leaving Brits cringing over memory of his Musk love-in 2024-05-23 at 15:16 By Lindsay Clark Man who promised the Unicorn Kingdom must now face judgement from the real thing Drenched in British spring rain, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election yesterday, surprising colleagues and commentators. And if opinion polls

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Nearly 90% of organizations suffer damage after a security incident 2024-05-23 at 15:16 By According to a recent cybersecurity incident report, nearly 90% of organizations suffer damage before containing and investigating incidents. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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EPA reveals most water systems do not meet compliance requirements 2024-05-23 at 15:16 By An investigation by the EPA reveals that a majority of water systems do not meet compliance standards. Security leaders are sharing their thoughts.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group’s Stealthy Tactics Exposed 2024-05-23 at 14:31 By Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic Specter since at least late 2022. “An analysis of this threat actor’s

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Are Your SaaS Backups as Secure as Your Production Data? 2024-05-23 at 14:31 By Conversations about data security tend to diverge into three main threads: How can we protect the data we store on our on-premises or cloud infrastructure? What strategies and tools or platforms can reliably backup and restore data? What would losing all

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Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds 2024-05-23 at 14:16 By Richard Speed Alternatively, true AGI has been reached, and the machines decided to delete themselves Parts of Microsoft’s Bing are still offline in Europe after it fell over earlier this morning, taking down Copilot and anything else that depends on the search service’s API.…

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GNU Compiler Collection 15 ushers Xeon Phi and Solaris 11.3 to silicon heaven 2024-05-23 at 13:16 By Liam Proven Remember Intel’s ‘Larrabee’ many-core Pentium-based GPU? GCC doesn’t After dropping Itanium support, GCC 15 is set to kill off more ancient platforms, with the Xeon Phi facing the firing squad alongside the penultimate version of Solaris.…

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Council fumbles Oracle Fusion launch, leaving SAP to die another day 2024-05-23 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark More than four years after procurement began, authority has no go-live date East Sussex County Council is conducting “a further health check of the system and programme” after it failed to go live with Oracle Fusion, its replacement

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Ivanti Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws in Endpoint Manager 2024-05-23 at 12:47 By Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. Six of the 10 vulnerabilities – from CVE-2024-29822 through CVE-2024-29827 (CVSS scores: 9.6) – relate

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TR-069, a protocol that made broadband manageable, turns 20. What’s coming next? 2024-05-23 at 12:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo In less than 13 minutes, we’ll get you up to speed on USP Interview  Technical report 69, or TR-069, which defines how people’s broadband routers and other customer-premises equipment can be remotely provisioned and managed by ISPs

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UK data watchdog wants six figures from N Ireland cops after 2023 data leak 2024-05-23 at 11:46 By Connor Jones Massive discount applied to save cop shop’s helicopter budget Following a data leak that brought “tangible fear of threat to life”, the UK’s data protection watchdog says it intends to fine the Police Service of

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I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug 2024-05-23 at 10:31 By Mark Pesce Models with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored? Feature  Imagine a brand new and nearly completely untested technology, capable of crashing at any moment

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How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe 2024-05-23 at 09:51 By Thomas Claburn SpaceX is smart on this, Cupertino and GL.iNet not so much In-depth  Academics have suggested that Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can be abused to create a global privacy nightmare.… This article is an excerpt

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Would you buy Pegasus spyware from this scammer? 2024-05-23 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein You shouldn’t – Indian infosec researchers warn you’ll get random junk instead Indian infosec firm CloudSEK warned on Wednesday that scammers are selling counterfeit code advertised as the NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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The End of an Era: Microsoft Phases Out VBScript for JavaScript and PowerShell 2024-05-23 at 08:46 By Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. “Technology has advanced over the years, giving rise to

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Read AI about it… OpenAI does deal with News Corp 2024-05-23 at 08:31 By Thomas Claburn Pact made with WSJ, New York Post, Sunday Times, Australian publisher as lawsuit bullets ping around the industry OpenAI and News Corp on Wednesday announced a partnership that will bring the publisher’s output to the super-lab’s models, marking yet

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