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Menacing marketeers fined by ICO for 1.9M cold calls 21/09/2023 at 13:32 By Paul Kunert Five businesses facing half a million in collective penalties for illegally phoning folk registered with TPS The UK data watchdog has penalized five businesses it says collectively made 1.9 million cold calls to members of the public, illegally, as those […]

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Cyber Group ‘Gold Melody’ Selling Compromised Access to Ransomware Attackers 21/09/2023 at 13:01 By A financially motivated threat actor has been outed as an initial access broker (IAB) that sells access to compromised organizations for other adversaries to conduct follow-on attacks such as ransomware. SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has dubbed the e-crime group Gold Melody,

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China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Huawei Servers 21/09/2023 at 13:01 By China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei’s servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, amid mounting geopolitical tensions between the two countries. In a message posted on WeChat, the government authority said U.S.

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EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024 21/09/2023 at 12:47 By Dan Robinson Sure to lure in a few in the WFH crowd … but no pricing yet UK network operator EE has hooked up with telecoms silicon supplier Qualcomm on a next-gen home Smart Hub that will bring Wi-Fi 7

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Ukrainian Hacker Suspected to be Behind “Free Download Manager” Malware Attack 21/09/2023 at 12:01 By The maintainers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have acknowledged a security incident dating back to 2020 that led to its website being used to distribute malicious Linux software. “It appears that a specific web page on our site was compromised

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Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips 21/09/2023 at 11:32 By Tobias Mann This is about ending Nvidia’s vendor lock-in, insists Greg Lavender Saddled with a bunch of legacy code written for Nvidia’s CUDA platform? Intel CTO Greg Lavender suggests building a large language model (LLM) to

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Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT 21/09/2023 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox The Authors Guild, a trade association for published writers, and 17 authors have unleashed the dragons on OpenAI over its alleged use of their

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India’s biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots 21/09/2023 at 10:02 By Laura Dobberstein Global tech companies’ Bharat offices attract the wrong sort of interest India is grappling with a three-and-a-half year surge in cyber crime, with analysis suggesting cities like Bengaluru and Gurgaon – centers of India’s tech development – are also hubs

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Data breach reveals distressing info: people who order pineapple on pizza 21/09/2023 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Pizza Hut Australia warns 190,000 customers’ data – including order history – has been accessed Pizza Hut’s Australian outpost has suffered a data breach.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this

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Beware: Fake Exploit for WinRAR Vulnerability on GitHub Infects Users with VenomRAT 21/09/2023 at 09:03 By A malicious actor released a fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently disclosed WinRAR vulnerability on GitHub with an aim to infect users who downloaded the code with VenomRAT malware. “The fake PoC meant to exploit this WinRAR vulnerability

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Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta’s transactional traction 21/09/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has used a trip to India to announce more transactional features for this social networks.… This article is an excerpt from

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Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27 21/09/2023 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Acquiring entity Japan Industrial Partners hasn’t said what it plans for the sprawling conglomerate Troubled Japanese tech concern Toshiba has announced [PDF] the completion of a tender offer that will see it move into private ownership.… This article is

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ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust 21/09/2023 at 05:17 By Simon Sharwood You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and ‘Vancouver’ release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy Artificial intelligence might just cause IT departments to reconsider their success metrics – according to ServiceNow circa 2017. That’s when

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Uncle Sam names 3 Amazon execs as Prime targets in subscription ripoff probe 21/09/2023 at 04:02 By Iain Thomson Dark patterns ‘knowingly duped millions of consumers’ The United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has named thee senior Amzazon.com staffers accused of approving tactics designed to confuse people into signing up for the online souk’s Prime

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Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults 21/09/2023 at 03:02 By Thomas Claburn Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better – and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has used the first week of its much-anticipated

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Feds raise alarm over Snatch ransomware as extortion crew brags of Veterans Affairs hit 21/09/2023 at 01:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Invasion of the data snatchers The Snatch ransomware crew has listed on its dark-web site the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs as one of its latest victims – as the Feds warn organizations to

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Signal adopts new alphabet jumble to protect chats from quantum computers 20/09/2023 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn X3DH readied for retirement as PQXDH is rolled out Signal has adopted a new key agreement protocol in an effort to keep encrypted Signal chat messages protected from any future quantum computers.… This article is an excerpt from

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International Criminal Court hacked amid Russia investigations 20/09/2023 at 23:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle ICC admits breach in social media post, says response remains ongoing The International Criminal Court said criminals breached its IT systems last week but it isn’t over yet, with the ICC saying the “cybersecurity incident” is still ongoing.… This article is

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Ransomware cyber insurance claims rose by 27% 20/09/2023 at 22:31 By Cyber insurance claims and trends were analyzed in a recent report finding a 12% increase in cyber claims over the first six months of the year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking its own cloud for hours today 20/09/2023 at 22:17 By Chris Williams Services recovering though Tableau, Mulesoft still poorly If you noticed something funky going on with Salesforce and its software-as-a-service empire today, it’s not you: it’s recovering from a mild outage.… This article is an excerpt from

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