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Human vs. Non-Human Identity in SaaS 2024-03-07 at 13:22 By In today’s rapidly evolving SaaS environment, the focus is on human users. This is one of the most compromised areas in SaaS security management and requires strict governance of user roles and permissions, monitoring of privileged users, their level of activity (dormant, active, hyperactive), their […]

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Ex-Google Engineer Arrested for Stealing AI Technology Secrets for China 2024-03-07 at 12:34 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), a former Google

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HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts 2024-03-07 at 12:26 By Paul Kunert 13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more HP has 13 million customers signed up to the Instant Ink subscription program, and a recently introduced rental service that includes hardware is

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Bank’s struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages 2024-03-07 at 11:36 By Lindsay Clark Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog A report on UK government debt reveals that a public sector bank relied on “people and paper” to process transactions during the pandemic as it struggled

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The DMA hasn’t changed Big Tech’s anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe 2024-03-07 at 10:54 By Thomas Claburn Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality On Thursday, Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force, requiring large gatekeepers companies to play nice with smaller rivals.… This article is an excerpt from The

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New Python-Based Snake Info Stealer Spreading Through Facebook Messages 2024-03-07 at 10:53 By Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different platforms such as Discord, GitHub, and Telegram,” Cybereason

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VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws 2024-03-07 at 09:36 By Simon Sharwood Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are

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Here’s something else AI can do: expose bad infosec to give cyber-crims a toehold in your organization 2024-03-07 at 08:39 By Brandon Vigliarolo Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims

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Watch Out for Spoofed Zoom, Skype, Google Meet Sites Delivering Malware 2024-03-07 at 08:39 By Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023. “The threat actor is distributing Remote

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US lawmakers want ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban 2024-03-07 at 08:23 By Laura Dobberstein The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok – its most valuable property

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Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too 2024-03-07 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense China’s Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has promised to launch three new rockets this year alone, and may also start to send reusable boosters into space

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Toyota, Samsung, accelerate towards better EV batteries 2024-03-07 at 04:48 By Laura Dobberstein Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027 Samsung’s SDI battery-making unit has announced it will start mass production of solid state batteries in 2027, and that the parts it pushes will have energy density of 900

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Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google 2024-03-07 at 03:32 By Thomas Claburn Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets 2024-03-07 at 02:48 By Simon Sharwood Moonlighted for two PRC companies after side-stepping Big G’s security The US Department of Justice on Wednesday revealed an indictment that charges a former Google employee with leaking the ad giant’s AI tech to two Chinese companies – after easily

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Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs 2024-03-07 at 01:16 By Tobias Mann Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets Shipments of consumer-grade GPUs are growing strongly, according to graphics-focused analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, but probably not due to the emergence of generative AI or the so-called AI

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Now it’s LinkedIn’s turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub 2024-03-06 at 23:18 By Chris Williams What’s not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft’s social network If you can’t get into LinkedIn at the moment, you’re not alone: The social network is unavailable due to an unexplained outage.… This article is an

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FBI: Critical infrastructure menaced by spike in ransomware attacks 2024-03-06 at 23:02 By Jessica Lyons Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon Digital crimes potentially cost victims more than $12.5 billion last year, according to the FBI’s latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report. … This article is an

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Copilot image generation ‘systemically’ flawed, says Microsoft whistleblower 2024-03-06 at 21:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won’t do anything about it, watchdog told A machine-learning engineer at Microsoft, unhappy with what he claims is a lack of response to his serious safety concerns about Copilot’s text-to-image tool, has

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Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed 2024-03-06 at 20:37 By Dan Robinson It’s geeks gone wild Many sysadmins will have no doubt wanted to fling a server from the top of a suitably tall building during moments of professional frustration, and now they can get the chance to chuck one competitively.…

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Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open 2024-03-06 at 20:08 By Richard Speed Time flies for The Flies NASA has wheeled out its latest set of astronaut graduates, dubbed “The Flies,” and announced that it is accepting applications for the next batch of astro-wannabes.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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