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Top security conferences in 2024 2024-01-22 at 17:01 By Security magazine brings you a list of the top physical security conferences to attend globally in 2024, including government and private events. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin 2024-01-22 at 16:32 By Richard Speed ‘Substantial increase in AWS calls’ triggers takedown notice A plugin and library to permit the control of Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances recently received takedown requests from Haier Europe’s Security and Governance department.… This article is an excerpt

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Subway’s data torpedoed by LockBit, ransomware gang claims 2024-01-22 at 16:02 By Connor Jones Fast food chain could face a footlong recovery process if allegations are true The LockBit ransomware gang is claiming an attack on submarine sandwich slinger Subway, alleging it has made off with a platter of data.… This article is an excerpt

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Politicos demand full list of Fujitsu’s public sector contract wins in wake of Post Office scandal 2024-01-22 at 15:33 By Lindsay Clark Committee wants to know which were awarded without competition and more British MPs have written to the country’s Treasury to demand details of all public sector contracts with Fujitsu as the Japanese tech

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Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages 2024-01-22 at 14:32 By Richard Speed Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers It was a tricky weekend for techies – not only did Microsoft’s Azure Resource Manager fall over across the globe on January 21, 2024, local UK retailing giant

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52% of Serious Vulnerabilities We Find are Related to Windows 10 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By We analyzed 2,5 million vulnerabilities we discovered in our customer’s assets. This is what we found. Digging into the data The dataset we analyze here is representative of a subset of clients that subscribe to our vulnerability scanning services. Assets

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NS-STEALER Uses Discord Bots to Exfiltrate Your Secrets from Popular Browsers 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Java-based “sophisticated” information stealer that uses a Discord bot to exfiltrate sensitive data from compromised hosts. The malware, named NS-STEALER, is propagated via ZIP archives masquerading as cracked software, Trellix security researcher Gurumoorthi Ramanathan said in an

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Mystery German chip fab sips on Gradiant’s ultrapure water 2024-01-22 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding Water treatment company Gradiant has won a contract to build a plant providing ultrapure water for a chip fabrication facility being constructed in Germany by an unnamed

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ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz 2024-01-22 at 13:02 By Paul Kunert It’s all very well offering ‘Free Debt Help,’ but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog… A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor

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Google building datacenter campus on the outskirts of London 2024-01-22 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet’s plans for ‘future capacity needs’ Google has commenced construction of a $1 billion datacenter complex on the outskirts of London it says is needed to provide a reliable service to Google Cloud customers

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Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom 2024-01-22 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Product to protect Oracle virtualization is already on the backup vendor’s roadmap Exclusive  Backup software vendor Veeam is doing early research on VMware alternative Proxmox, potentially with a view to creating a product to protect data

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FTC Bans InMarket for Selling Precise User Location Without Consent 2024-01-22 at 10:01 By The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is continuing to clamp down on data brokers by prohibiting InMarket Media from selling or licensing precise location data. The settlement is part of allegations that the Texas-based company did not inform or seek consent

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Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next 2024-01-22 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters Huawei last week detailed a major release of its HarmonyOS that will see the Chinese giant break with the Linux ecosystem.… This article

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Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman 2024-01-22 at 07:47 By Katyanna Quach ALSO: Google’s geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI AI In brief  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that a breakthrough in energy production is required to advance increasingly capable and power-hungry AI models.… This article is an excerpt

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NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again 2024-01-22 at 06:47 By Laura Dobberstein ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most

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Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks 2024-01-22 at 06:01 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a “notable increase” in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised hosts. “The web shells are concealed within an unknown binary format and are

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BreachForums admin ‘Pompourin’ sentenced to 20 years of supervised release 2024-01-22 at 04:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities in brief  Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka “Pompourin,” a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20

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Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions 2024-01-22 at 02:17 By Laura Dobberstein PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets Asia In Brief  The alliance struck by Tencent and Meta to bring the latter’s Quest VR hardware to China is

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Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment 2024-01-21 at 23:02 By Tobias Mann Land of the rising profit? Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years 2024-01-20 at 13:49 By An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been linked to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. “UNC3886 has

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