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Irish cops data debacle exposes half a million motorist records

Irish cops data debacle exposes half a million motorist records 24/10/2023 at 13:17 By Connor Jones Details of civilians and Garda officers were included, as well as high-res scans of identity documents A third-party contractor running a database without password protection exposed more than 500,000 records related to vehicle seizures by the Irish National Police […]

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Operation Triangulation: Experts Uncover Deeper Insights into iOS Zero-Day Attacks

Operation Triangulation: Experts Uncover Deeper Insights into iOS Zero-Day Attacks 24/10/2023 at 12:46 By The TriangleDB implant used to target Apple iOS devices packs in at least four different modules to record microphone, extract iCloud Keychain, steal data from SQLite databases used by various apps, and estimate the victim’s location. The findings come from Kaspersky,

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Backdoor Implant on Hacked Cisco Devices Modified to Evade Detection

Backdoor Implant on Hacked Cisco Devices Modified to Evade Detection 24/10/2023 at 12:46 By The backdoor implanted on Cisco devices by exploiting a pair of zero-day flaws in IOS XE software has been modified by the threat actor so as to escape visibility via previous fingerprinting methods. “Investigated network traffic to a compromised device has

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Progress towards ‘Gigabit Europe’ is slow, with UK also lagging

Progress towards ‘Gigabit Europe’ is slow, with UK also lagging 24/10/2023 at 11:34 By Dan Robinson Fiber to the Premises just a premise for many Very few households and businesses across Euope are getting Gigabit broadband speeds regardless of official claims, and the UK is trailing in key areas – especially FTTP coverage.… This article

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When is a privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

When is a privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit 24/10/2023 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn ‘It looks like even Sundar Pichai is confused about how this control works’ A recently released video deposition in long-running lawsuit over Google tracking its users has claimed that even the CEO Sundar Pichai

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1Password Detects Suspicious Activity Following Okta Support Breach

1Password Detects Suspicious Activity Following Okta Support Breach 24/10/2023 at 09:01 By Popular password management solution 1Password said it detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance on September 29 following the support system breach, but reiterated that no user data was accessed. “We immediately terminated the activity, investigated, and found no compromise of user data

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Scammers use India’s real-time payment system to siphon off money, send it to China

Scammers use India’s real-time payment system to siphon off money, send it to China 24/10/2023 at 06:43 By Laura Dobberstein Countries signed on for India’s stack might watch out China-based scammers are using a combination of fake loan apps and India’s real-time mobile payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to separate victims from their cash,

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A cheap Chinese PC with odd components. What could go wrong?

A cheap Chinese PC with odd components. What could go wrong? 24/10/2023 at 05:32 By Simon Sharwood Surprisingly little, but the KAMRUI GK3 Plus doesn’t inspire confidence Desktop Tourism  Confession time: I am fascinated by very cheap PCs. I once bought a Windows tablet for AU$50 ($32) and a couple of years ago bought a

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Japan to probe Google over ‘suspicion’ that antitrust laws are being broken

Japan to probe Google over ‘suspicion’ that antitrust laws are being broken 24/10/2023 at 04:01 By Simon Sharwood Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has become the latest competition regulator to decide Google is worthy of an investigation for monopolistic

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‘AI divide’ across the US leaves economists concerned

‘AI divide’ across the US leaves economists concerned 24/10/2023 at 03:18 By Thomas Claburn AI use up 266% in five years but it’s still used by less than a quarter of workers Artificial intelligence-related technologies show promise but are clustering in AI hubs across the world, a group of economists has reported.… This article is

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Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market

Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market 24/10/2023 at 02:20 By Tobias Mann AMD also said to be working on an Arm-based PC chip Intel’s stock dipped slightly on Monday after a report that Nvidia was developing an Arm-based CPU for the PC market.… This article is an

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Cisco fixes critical IOS XE bug but malware crew way ahead of them

Cisco fixes critical IOS XE bug but malware crew way ahead of them 24/10/2023 at 01:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Initial fall in infected devices indicates evolution, not extinction, of attack code After a six-day wait, Cisco started rolling out a patch for a critical bug that miscreants had exploited to install implants in thousands

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Google – yes, that Google – testing proxy scheme to hide IP addresses for privacy

Google – yes, that Google – testing proxy scheme to hide IP addresses for privacy 24/10/2023 at 00:48 By Thomas Claburn Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay Google says it plans to prototype a technique to mask IP addresses via network proxies in future versions of its Chrome browser, a privacy protection similar

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Biden admin reveals 31 R&D tech hubs, with $500m up for grabs

Biden admin reveals 31 R&D tech hubs, with $500m up for grabs 23/10/2023 at 23:20 By Tobias Mann Nothing more fattening than CHIPs: Up to ten locations get initial funding, more to come The Biden administration Monday announced 31 regional tech hubs across the US poised to spur development and manufacturing of key technologies.… This

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DC elections agency warns entire voting roll may have been stolen

DC elections agency warns entire voting roll may have been stolen 23/10/2023 at 22:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Home of the Republic seemingly hit by Sony/NTT Docomo ransomware crew The US Capitol’s election agency says a ransomware crew might have stolen its entire voter roll, which includes the personal information of all registered voters in

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No more Mr Nice DoJ – Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims

No more Mr Nice DoJ – Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims 23/10/2023 at 21:49 By Iain Thomson Has someone been shooting their mouth off a little too much? In financial filings, Tesla has admitted that it is under a serious investigation by the US Department of Justice over the efficacy of its self-driving

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Who’s Experimenting with AI Tools in Your Organization?

Who’s Experimenting with AI Tools in Your Organization? 23/10/2023 at 21:21 By With the record-setting growth of consumer-focused AI productivity tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence—formerly the realm of data science and engineering teams—has become a resource available to every employee.  From a productivity perspective, that’s fantastic. Unfortunately for IT and security teams, it also means

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