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Willy Wonka event leaves bitter taste with artificially sweetened promises 2024-02-28 at 17:47 By Richard Currie Charlie and the AI factory flop compared to ‘meth lab’ In the most flagrant case of false advertising since The NeverEnding Story, cops were called to a Wonka-themed “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” in Glasgow, Scotland, because promotional material was made […]

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47% of cloud storage billing is allocated to data and usage fees 2024-02-28 at 17:46 By Cloud storage was analyzed in a recent report finding that 93% of organizations plan to grow their public cloud storage capacity in 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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Iran-Linked UNC1549 Hackers Target Middle East Aerospace & Defense Sectors 2024-02-28 at 17:46 By An Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC1549 has been attributed with medium confidence to a new set of attacks targeting aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East, including Israel and the U.A.E. Other targets of the cyber espionage activity likely include

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Third-party attack vectors are responsible for 29% of breaches 2024-02-28 at 17:21 By A recent report reveals that third-party attack vectors are involved in at least 29% of breaches, emphasizing the importance of third-party risk management.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Nikola founder faces ranch forfeiture following fraud conviction 2024-02-28 at 16:48 By Jude Karabus Trevor Milton bought it for cash and stock options, and he wants the cash back Try not to weep into your morning coffee, but convicted fraudster Trevor Milton might lose a ranch that a fresh filing claims he bought after lying

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Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million 2024-02-28 at 16:20 By Paul Kunert Stock awards front loaded, get five years in one go Broadcom’s boss Hock Tan more than doubled his total compensation package in fiscal 2023, which will no doubt be well received by the thousands of small VMware customers and cloud

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FBI Warns U.S. Healthcare Sector of Targeted BlackCat Ransomware Attacks 2024-02-28 at 15:46 By The U.S. government is warning about the resurgence of BlackCat (aka ALPHV) ransomware attacks targeting the healthcare sector as recently as this month. “Since mid-December 2023, of the nearly 70 leaked victims, the healthcare sector has been the most commonly victimized,”

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Atos confirms sale talks for datacenter and hosting biz have failed 2024-02-28 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson Czech billionaire buyer walks away from ailing Tech Foundations division Troubled tech giant Atos confirmed today that negotiations with the prospective buyer of its legacy IT operation have ended prematurely, coming after the recent cancellation of its rights

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City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do 2024-02-28 at 14:36 By Lindsay Clark Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save ‘bankrupt’ council money Europe’s largest local authority has allocated £5.3 million in next year’s budget to pay for manual workarounds deemed necessary after its effort to

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Building Your Privacy-Compliant Customer Data Platform (CDP) with First-Party Data 2024-02-28 at 14:35 By In today’s digital era, data privacy isn’t just a concern; it’s a consumer demand. Businesses are grappling with the dual challenge of leveraging customer data for personalized experiences while navigating a maze of privacy regulations. The answer? A privacy-compliant Customer Data

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On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs 2024-02-28 at 14:06 By Liam Proven New versions of both Overstreet’s baby and OpenZFS will hit the street soon New versions of the two leading next-generations filesystems are coming: both OpenZFS 2.2.3, and some time afterwards, an improved bcachefs.… This article is an excerpt from

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Palantir boss says company’s software the only reason the ‘goose step’ has not returned to Europe 2024-02-28 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims Palantir stopped ‘innumerable’ terror attacks in Europe The CEO of controversial data-mining firm Palantir has claimed that the company’s technology has prevented terrorist attacks in Europe, thereby implicitly

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Superusers Need Super Protection: How to Bridge Privileged Access Management and Identity Management 2024-02-28 at 12:48 By Traditional perimeter-based security has become costly and ineffective. As a result, communications security between people, systems, and networks is more important than blocking access with firewalls. On top of that, most cybersecurity risks are caused by just a few

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Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans’ personal data 2024-02-28 at 12:33 By Jessica Lyons Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans’ sensitive personal information and government-related

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Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle 2024-02-28 at 11:41 By Dan Robinson Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right Using waste heat from datacenters for district heating makes sense from an environmental standpoint, yet there are implementation challenges and potential pitfalls introduced with any government

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Europe probes Microsoft’s €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral 2024-02-28 at 10:47 By Katyanna Quach Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed The European Commission is investigating Microsoft’s €15 million ($16.3 million) investment in French startup Mistral, which came just after the latter released a large language model to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.…

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TimbreStealer Malware Spreading via Tax-themed Phishing Scam Targets IT Users 2024-02-28 at 10:30 By Mexican users have been targeted with tax-themed phishing lures at least since November 2023 to distribute a previously undocumented Windows malware called TimbreStealer. Cisco Talos, which discovered the activity, described the authors as skilled and that the “threat actor has previously used similar tactics,

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Nvidia lures autonomous car boss from China’s Baidu 2024-02-28 at 09:31 By Laura Dobberstein Jensen Huang’s automotive engineering team has now pinched two top Middle Kingdom talents Nvidia has picked up the former head of Baidu’s L2+ Autonomous Driving System, Luo Qi, to head the engineering team of its own automotive business unit.… This article

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Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI 2024-02-28 at 08:47 By Tobias Mann Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly Google has again stoked fears that rival Microsoft is using anticompetitive business practices and licenses to establish a cloud monopoly, and is

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Cybersecurity Agencies Warn Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Users of APT28’s MooBot Threat 2024-02-28 at 08:31 By In a new joint advisory, cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the U.S. and other countries are urging users of Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to take protective measures, weeks after a botnet comprising infected routers was felled by law enforcement as part of an operation codenamed

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