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Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband 2024-01-23 at 19:16 By Richard Speed Claims FCC’s justification for ditching Starlink ‘utterly false’ Elon Musk has reacted angrily to the Biden administration pledging millions of dollars to bolster high-speed internet access.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this […]

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Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases 2024-01-23 at 18:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Gotta fund that war somehow, eh, Vlad? Apple has paid a fine of ₽1.2 billion ($13.5 million) to the Russian government after Moscow decided the company violated its antitrust laws by preventing iOS users from going outside the App

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Accused PII seller faces jail for running underground fraud op 2024-01-23 at 18:16 By Connor Jones More than 5,000 victims claimed over a 3-year period but filing reckons accused didn’t even use a VPN A Baltimore man faces a potential maximum 20-year prison sentence after being charged for his alleged role in running an online

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Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters 2024-01-23 at 17:46 By Dan Robinson Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels.… This article is an

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The 2 am call: Preparing for a government cyberattack 2024-01-23 at 17:16 By As the ransomware attack continued that day, hour by hour, Fremont County’s inter-departmental safety services were brought securely back online. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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VexTrio: The Uber of Cybercrime – Brokering Malware for 60+ Affiliates 2024-01-23 at 17:16 By The threat actors behind ClearFake, SocGholish, and dozens of other actors have established partnerships with another entity known as VexTrio as part of a massive “criminal affiliate program,” new findings from Infoblox reveal. The latest development demonstrates the “breadth of their activities

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David Mills, the internet’s Father Time, dies at 85 2024-01-23 at 17:02 By Liam Proven Creator of the Network Time Protocol that holds the internet together Obituary  Professor David L Mills, one of the original wizards who built the internet, has died at the age of 85, leaving a remarkable technological legacy.… This article is

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Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data 2024-01-23 at 16:31 By Lindsay Clark Don’t leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red Oracle has launched its OCI Generative AI service and introduced new betas to help customers build machine learning models from their own data. All of this as it tries to

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Malicious NPM Packages Exfiltrate Hundreds of Developer SSH Keys via GitHub 2024-01-23 at 16:31 By Two malicious packages discovered on the npm package registry have been found to leverage GitHub to store Base64-encrypted SSH keys stolen from developer systems on which they were installed. The modules named warbeast2000 and kodiak2k were published at the start of the month, attracting 412 and 1,281

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Lukewarm reception for Microsoft’s Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles 2024-01-23 at 16:16 By Richard Speed Pricey AI assistant met with enthusiasm and indifference Just over a week after Microsoft unveiled Copilot Pro and rolled the service out to more customers, users are complaining about performance, and the platform is being met with a shrug

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Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it’s hurting the secondhand market 2024-01-23 at 15:31 By Paul Kunert Refresh rates stretched as consumers see no need to upgrade… or open wallets Used and refurbished smartphones sales continue to expand by near-double digits but that rate is slowing as elongated refresh cycles for brand new

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“Activator” Alert: MacOS Malware Hides in Cracked Apps, Targeting Crypto Wallets 2024-01-23 at 15:31 By Cracked software have been observed infecting Apple macOS users with a previously undocumented stealer malware capable of harvesting system information and cryptocurrency wallet data. Kaspersky, which identified the artifacts in the wild, said they are designed to target machines running macOS Ventura

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France fines Amazon €32M for watching staff so much they’d have to ‘justify each break’ 2024-01-23 at 14:46 By Richard Speed French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal The French privacy watchdog, National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), has fined Amazon France Logistique €32 million ($34.8 million)

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From Megabits to Terabits: Gcore Radar Warns of a New Era of DDoS Attacks 2024-01-23 at 14:32 By As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore’s broad, internationally distributed network of scrubbing centers allows them to

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UK water giant admits attackers broke into system as gang holds it to ransom 2024-01-23 at 14:01 By Connor Jones Comes mere months after Western intelligence agencies warned of attacks on water providers Southern Water confirmed this morning that criminals broke into its IT systems, making off with a “limited amount of data.”… This article

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Asda’s delayed SAP migration forces extension to Walmart’s backend support contract 2024-01-23 at 13:17 By Lindsay Clark Three years after leveraged buyout, $240M ERP plan yet to bear fruit Supermarket chain Asda has extended its deal with Walmart, the US retail giant that once owned the UK business, to support backend ERP systems after a

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BreachForums Founder Sentenced to 20 Years of Supervised Release, No Jail Time 2024-01-23 at 13:16 By Conor Brian Fitzpatrick has been sentenced to time served and 20 years of supervised release for his role as the creator and administrator of BreachForums. Fitzpatrick, who went by the online alias “pompompurin,” was arrested in March 2023 in

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Legacy tech shoots down Ministry of Defence’s supply chain improvements 2024-01-23 at 12:31 By Paul Kunert How to manage 740 million items of behalf of the Armed Forces? The UK Ministry of Defence’s efforts to better manage its £11.8 billion ($15 billion) of inventory hinges, in no small part, on a sweeping digital transformation program

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~40,000 Attacks in 3 Days: Critical Confluence RCE Under Active Exploitation 2024-01-23 at 12:01 By Malicious actors have begun to actively exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, within three days of public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability impacts out-of-date versions of the

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DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry 2024-01-23 at 11:46 By Richard Currie So this is the AI revolution We know that “AI” is all the rage for now, but the recent experience of a DPD customer suggests that just because you can replace customer support with a chatbot doesn’t mean

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