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New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet 2024-09-18 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won’t bother reading it The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architectures […]

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China’s tech giants buy into Indonesia – just like US tech giants did in India 2024-09-18 at 09:03 By Laura Dobberstein GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake Chinese tech giant Alibaba showed it’s not just Meta, Google and Amazon that can use their financial heft to buy

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Patch Issued for Critical VMware vCenter Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution 2024-09-18 at 09:02 By Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a heap-overflow vulnerability in

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Transform what video intelligence can become with AI 2024-09-18 at 07:16 By Many valuable use cases beyond security monitoring exist, but they come with more considerations and require deeper collaboration.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware 2024-09-18 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged a man with creating and administering an app named Ghost that was allegedly

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Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls 2024-09-18 at 03:47 By Thomas Claburn The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts.…

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WhatsApp fix to make View Once chats actually disappear is beaten in less than a week 2024-09-18 at 03:31 By Iain Thomson View Forever, more like it, as Meta’s privacy feature again revealed to be futile with a little light hacking A fix deployed by Meta to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once

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VMware patches over remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation 2024-09-18 at 00:01 By Iain Thomson Bug reports made in China Broadcom has emitted a pair of patches for vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server that a miscreant with network access to the software could exploit to completely commandeer a system. This also affects Cloud

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No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others 2024-09-17 at 23:46 By Thomas Claburn Anthropic Claude 3.5 shines in Chatterbox Labs safety test Feature  Anthropic has positioned itself as a leader in AI safety, and in a recent analysis by Chatterbox Labs, that proved to be the case.… This article is

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Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theft despite bounty payout 2024-09-17 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Chocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access Overly permissive settings in Google Cloud’s Document AI service could be abused by data thieves to break into Cloud Storage buckets and steal sensitive information.… This article

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Hey kids, wanna clock the ISS? ESA’s Astro Pi challenge runs your code in space 2024-09-17 at 22:32 By Richard Speed Send astronauts nice pixel art, or try something a little harder The next round of the European Space Agency’s Astro Pi challenge is open, inviting participants to use the diminutive computers aboard the International

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Nine dead, thousands hurt in Lebanon after Hezbollah pagers go boom, not beep 2024-09-17 at 22:17 By Iain Thomson Israel blamed, Iran’s Lebanese ambassador reportedly among wounded Lebanon says at least nine people were killed today after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across the country. Israel has been blamed.… This article is an excerpt

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SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk’s alleged launch impatience 2024-09-17 at 21:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Some good news for Elon – 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party Elon Musk’s impatience has led to the US Federal Aviation Administration proposing $633,009 in civil penalties against his SpaceX operation for

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Hezbollah claims dozens dead as its pagers go boom, not beep 2024-09-17 at 21:46 By Iain Thomson Iran’s Lebanese ambassador reportedly among the injured Terrorist group Hezbollah is claiming that eight people have died and dozens are injured after pagers used by its troops exploded.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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FAA seeks to fine SpaceX $663k for launch license violations 2024-09-17 at 20:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo One good news for Musk – 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party Elon Musk’s impatience has led to the US Federal Aviation Administration proposing $633,009 in civil penalties against SpaceX for allegedly violating

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Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M 2024-09-17 at 19:51 By Connor Jones Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up The trend of ransomware crews claiming to sell stolen data privately instead of leaking it online continues with Rhysida marketing the data allegedly belonging to Port of

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GitLab releases security updates to fix 17 vulnerabilities 2024-09-17 at 19:16 By GitLab releases a security update for a critical flaw. Security leaders share advice on how organizations can secure against this vulnerability.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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IBM bags $45M as jury rules in patent infringement case 2024-09-17 at 19:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo Big Blue’s Prodigy invention from the ’80s come back to haunt FarmVille maker IBM’s patent farm has yielded another bumper crop, with a Delaware jury awarding Big Blue $45 million in damages from mobile games maker Zynga. … This article

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AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-premises 2024-09-17 at 18:32 By Dan Robinson See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator Cloud behemoth AWS says it is facing stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, which is a turnaround from its once-proud boast that all workloads would eventually move to the cloud.… This

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