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New Android Malware NGate Steals NFC Data to Clone Contactless Payment Cards 2024-08-26 at 08:02 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered new Android malware that can relay victims’ contactless payment data from physical credit and debit cards to an attacker-controlled device with the goal of conducting fraudulent operations. The Slovak cybersecurity company is tracking the novel […]

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Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France 2024-08-26 at 07:03 By Simon Sharwood Rumors swirl that lack of content moderation has angered authorities The founder and CEO of made-in-Russia messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France on Saturday – and subjected to further detention the next day – apparently over his company’s failure

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Engineering the human out of cybersecurity 2024-08-26 at 07:03 By Cybersecurity controls must be constantly evaluated to ensure they can withstand new and upcoming threats, especially those that target employees.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Alleged Karakut ransomware scumbag charged in US 2024-08-26 at 05:17 By Jessica Lyons Plus: Microsoft issues workaround for dual-boot crashes; ARRL cops to ransom payment, and more Infosec in brief  Deniss Zolotarjovs, a suspected member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware gang, has been charged in a US court with allegedly conspiring to commit money laundering,

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Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that actually matter 2024-08-25 at 16:46 By Tobias Mann If you guessed TOPS and FLOPS, that’s only half right Ready to dive in and play with AI locally on your machine? Whether you want to see what all the fuss is about with all the

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Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France for Content Moderation Failures 2024-08-25 at 09:31 By Pavel Durov, founder and chief executive of the popular messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France on Saturday, according to French television network TF1. Durov is believed to have been apprehended pursuant to a warrant issued in connection with a

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New Linux Malware ‘sedexp’ Hides Credit Card Skimmers Using Udev Rules 2024-08-25 at 09:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new stealthy piece of Linux malware that leverages an unconventional technique to achieve persistence on infected systems and hide credit card skimmer code. The malware, attributed to a financially motivated threat actor, has been codenamed

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LEGO’s Concorde is the only supersonic jet you can build for the price of a fancy dinner 2024-08-24 at 12:46 By Richard Speed And still step on in the dark Hands-on  Having admired the Concorde perched atop the Sinsheim Museum, we wanted one of our own but had to settle for the next best thing

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UK government can’t kick consultancy habit despite promises 2024-08-24 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Spending returns to pandemic levels as tech deals make up bulk of framework agreements UK public expenditure on management consultancies has returned to COVID-era levels, despite repeated plans by the previous government to reduce dependency on external expertise.… This article is

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Meta Exposes Iranian Hacker Group Targeting Global Political Figures on WhatsApp 2024-08-24 at 10:46 By Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian state-sponsored threat actor, who it said used a set of WhatsApp accounts that attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine,

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CISA Urges Federal Agencies to Patch Versa Director Vulnerability by September 2024-08-24 at 10:46 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a security flaw impacting Versa Director to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. The medium-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39717 (CVSS score: 6.6), is case

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Under pressure from Europe, Apple makes iOS browser options bit more reasonable 2024-08-24 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Cupertino quits screwing around with defaults – for those in the EU Analysis  Apple has agreed to change the way it implements web browser choice screens and browser capabilities to comply with Europe’s monopoly-busting Digital Markets Act.…

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Feds, US states sue RealPage for building rent-hiking software for landlords 2024-08-24 at 00:46 By Thomas Claburn Algorithm just a fancy way to collude using private info, prosecutors say The Justice Department and the Attorneys General of eight states in the US on Friday filed a civil antitrust complaint against real estate service firm RealPage

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Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands 2024-08-24 at 00:16 By Tobias Mann For 100 concurrent users, the card delivered 12.88 tokens per second—just slightly faster than average human reading speed If you want to scale a large language model (LLM) to a few thousand users, you

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Ex-Microsoft engineer resurrects PDP-11 from junkyard parts 2024-08-23 at 22:16 By Richard Speed Because everyone has a box of mystery computer bits they simply can’t part with Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took a trip down memory lane this week by building a functioning PDP-11 minicomputer from parts found in a tub of hardware.… This

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Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from 2024-08-23 at 20:46 By Liam Proven A glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of Chinese open source After a couple of years in development, Linux Deepin 23 arrives, with some new shiny that throws shade on the leading Western desktop distros.…

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