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VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use 2024-05-14 at 16:17 By Dan Robinson A nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom’s acquisition VMware has made another small but notable post-merger concession to users: the Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro desktop hypervisor products will now be free for personal use.… This article […]

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2024 Public Sector Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies 2024-05-14 at 16:03 By Trustwave SpiderLabs’ 2024 Public Sector Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies report details the security issues facing public sector security teams as they try to strike a balance between supplying needed services and deploying the cybersecurity necessary to

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Cops developing Ghostbusters-esque weapon to take out e-bike thugs 2024-05-14 at 15:46 By Richard Currie ‘Who you gonna call?’ Dunno, my phone’s been stolen British police officers are setting their phasers to stun in response to an explosion in scooter and electric bike-based crime.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Critical Flaws in Cacti Framework Could Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code 2024-05-14 at 15:31 By The maintainers of the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework have addressed a dozen security flaws, including two critical issues that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The most severe of the vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-25641 (CVSS

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How the Change Healthcare breach can prompt real cybersecurity change 2024-05-14 at 15:16 By After the number of health data leaks hit a new record last year, healthcare providers should be leveraging all the tools available to protect themselves and their patients from malicious criminals.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s

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Once Alibaba’s main investor, SoftBank sheds remaining stake 2024-05-14 at 15:02 By Laura Dobberstein SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company SoftBank, once Alibaba’s biggest investor, has sold its stake in the Chinese tech company, it told investors on an earnings call.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Ongoing Campaign Bombarded Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls 2024-05-14 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing social engineering campaign that bombards enterprises with spam emails with the goal of obtaining initial access to their environments for follow-on exploitation. “The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user’s email with junk and calling the

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6 Mistakes Organizations Make When Deploying Advanced Authentication 2024-05-14 at 14:16 By Deploying advanced authentication measures is key to helping organizations address their weakest cybersecurity link: their human users. Having some form of 2-factor authentication in place is a great start, but many organizations may not yet be in that spot or have the needed level of authentication

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Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t had any visitors for 15 years 2024-05-14 at 14:02 By Richard Speed STS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened It is fifteen years since the Hubble Space Telescope was captured by a Space Shuttle for the final time.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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The UK reveals it’s spending millions on quantum navigation 2024-05-14 at 13:31 By Richard Speed First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that be backup for GPS The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing.… This article is an

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NHS Digital hints at exploit sightings of Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities 2024-05-14 at 12:46 By Connor Jones When PoC code is released within a day of disclosure, it’s only a matter of time before attacks kick off The UK’s NHS is warning of the possibility that vulnerabilities in Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) software are being

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Nix forked, but over politics instead of progress 2024-05-14 at 11:33 By Liam Proven Aux.computer fragments the community – but doesn’t fix the technological objections Comment  Recent ructions in the Nix project over moderation, leadership, and funding, have led to a fork… but one that fails to address the technical and human issues with Nix

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Brit publishers beg Apple not to hurt online ad revenue 2024-05-14 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS The UK News Media Association (NMA) has written to Apple, warning that its reported plan to provide AI-powered ad blocking in iOS 18 threatens the revenue of

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Nvidia PUE-PUEs datacenter efficiency ratings, calls for application-specific metrics 2024-05-14 at 09:48 By Tobias Mann What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit? ISC  Power use effectiveness – PUE for short – has long been the spec by which datacenter efficiency has been measured. But after nearly two

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Apple and Google Launch Cross-Platform Feature to Detect Unwanted Bluetooth Tracking Devices 2024-05-14 at 08:31 By Apple and Google on Monday officially announced the rollout of a new feature that notifies users across both iOS and Android if a Bluetooth tracking device is being used to stealthily keep tabs on them without their knowledge or

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Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over ‘unpaid bills’ 2024-05-14 at 05:31 By Matthew Connatser ‘If they were to call me today, I’d tell them to f%*k off’ Amid the hullabaloo over SpaceX building out its rocket-launching empire in Texas, there are signs it’s not all tickety-boo – in that it seems

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RSA Conference 2024: The good, the bad, and the downright worrying 2024-05-14 at 04:01 By Iain Thomson If there’s one thing infosec needs right now, it’s a little pick-me-up Kettle  San Francisco hosted tens of thousands of computer security folk last week for 2024’s RSA Conference – and the vibe was a mix of gloom

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US, China agree to meet in Switzerland to discuss most pressing issue of all: AI use 2024-05-14 at 03:01 By Matthew Connatser No negotiations on tech sanctions, just talks about not destroying the world American and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday to try and broker a deal for the two countries

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Green500 shows Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast 2024-05-14 at 02:31 By Tobias Mann Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv’s CPU-GPU chip. AMD’s APU could soon change that Analysis  Despite growing alarm over spiraling datacenter power consumption, this spring’s Green500 ranking of the world’s most sustainable publicly known supercomputers shows that the

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As one Apple Store votes against forming union, another may go on strike 2024-05-14 at 01:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Staff in Maryland want better pay and steady schedules; New Jersey doesn’t want to rock the boat It’s been a labor-(movement)-intensive few days for Apple, which found out it faces a potential employee strike at one

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