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Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders 2024-04-15 at 15:19 By Richard Speed This wasn’t what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature ‘great again’ Microsoft is to try out “recommendations” – ads for apps in the Microsoft Store – in the Windows […]

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Timing is Everything: The Role of Just-in-Time Privileged Access in Security Evolution 2024-04-15 at 14:46 By To minimize the risk of privilege misuse, a trend in the privileged access management (PAM) solution market involves implementing just-in-time (JIT) privileged access. This approach to privileged identity management aims to mitigate the risks associated with prolonged high-level access by granting

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Feline firewall woke developer to declaw DDoS disaster 2024-04-15 at 14:35 By Simon Sharwood System alerts were pinging but cat had no way of knowing what was happening A developer named Danny Guo has shared a story of the time his cat alerted him to a DDoS attack.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 2024-04-15 at 13:32 By Rupert Goodwins Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must Opinion  Twice it was tried, twice it failed. In Germany, Munich and Lower Saxony both decided to switch to open source for official IT. Both projects, to some extent or another*,

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After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 ‘Noble Numbat’ belatedly hits beta 2024-04-15 at 12:47 By Liam Proven Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages The beta version of this year’s Ubuntu LTS release is out, complete with a new, and automatable, installation program.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Chinese-Linked LightSpy iOS Spyware Targets South Asian iPhone Users 2024-04-15 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a “renewed” cyber espionage campaign targeting users in South Asia with the aim of delivering an Apple iOS spyware implant called LightSpy. “The latest iteration of LightSpy, dubbed ‘F_Warehouse,’ boasts a modular framework with extensive spying features,” the BlackBerry

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MIT breakthrough means there’s no material too weird for 3D printing 2024-04-15 at 11:32 By Lindsay Clark Thanks to sensors and math, machines can ‘learn’ to adapt to new mediums Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new method for 3D printing, which they claim greatly reduces the time taken to

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Palo Alto Networks Releases Urgent Fixes for Exploited PAN-OS Vulnerability 2024-04-15 at 11:31 By Palo Alto Networks has released hotfixes to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), the critical vulnerability is a case of command injection in the GlobalProtect feature

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Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more 2024-04-15 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason Microsoft has foreshadowed significant price rises for its Dynamics 365 cloudy business applications.… This article is an excerpt from

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Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships 2024-04-15 at 08:17 By Laura Dobberstein Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones South Korean industrial giant HD Hyundai’s maritime arm announced on Sunday it will collaborate with controversial software developer Palantir Technologies to develop an unmanned surface vessel (USV) that can

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Redefining Security: Proactive Measures Transform Industrial Protection 2024-04-15 at 07:17 By Explore how preemptive security, from electric fencing to tech integration, is revolutionizing asset and worker safety in today’s automation-driven industrial landscape. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Building cyber resilience through cyber tabletop exercises 2024-04-15 at 07:17 By Organizations can use cyber tabletop exercises as a powerful tool to build robust and adaptable cyber defenses. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Stay a step ahead with the missing link in cybercrime defense: OSINT 2024-04-15 at 07:17 By Adding OSINT-driven threat intelligence to the CISO toolkit can be a game-changer, enabling a proactive approach to cybercrime defenses. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica 2024-04-15 at 06:51 By Simon Sharwood Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier Supercolossal SaaS seller Salesforce is reportedly poised to acquire cloud data management outfit Informatica.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy 2024-04-14 at 21:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo Industrial revolution didn’t give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders Interview  While the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind chase after some fabled artificial general intelligence, not everyone thinks that’s

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How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future 2024-04-14 at 19:03 By Thomas Claburn ‘Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it’ AI models become better at foretelling the future when asked to frame the prediction as a story about the past, boffins at

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AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality 2024-04-13 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content’ interview  We know Google search results are being hammered the proliferation of AI garbage, and the web giant’s attempts to curb the growth

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Ex-Security Engineer Jailed 3 Years for $12.3 Million Crypto Exchange Thefts 2024-04-13 at 17:46 By A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of

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U.S. Treasury Hamas Spokesperson for Cyber Influence Operations 2024-04-13 at 17:46 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions against an official associated with Hamas for his involvement in cyber influence operations. Hudhayfa Samir ‘Abdallah al-Kahlut, 39, also known as Abu Ubaida, has served as the public spokesperson

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China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027 2024-04-13 at 16:16 By Tobias Mann There’s no Huawei we saw that coming Years after Uncle Sam ordered US telecommunications providers to rip and replace Huawei kit from their networks, Beijing is telling telcos in China to strip out American-made

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