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Number of pensioners hurt by DWP legacy system error actually 65,000 10/07/2023 at 15:01 By Lindsay Clark UK benefits department forced to use ‘legacy bridge’ to help reduce error after underpaying people by c £1B The UK’s government has upped its estimate of the number of people hit by a state pension underpayment related to […]

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Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog 10/07/2023 at 13:38 By Dan Robinson Ofcom takes quick glance, says: It’s off to the CMA with you The cloud infrastructure market should be referred to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for investigation, says telecoms regulator Ofcom in a freshly filed

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Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT 10/07/2023 at 13:00 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models In brief  Award-winning novelists Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, and, separately comedian Sarah Silverman and novelists

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The AI arms race could give us the cool without the cruel 10/07/2023 at 11:50 By Rupert Goodwins War is obscene but it’s also responsible for many technological advances Opinion  Every week there are so many stories about different things but with a common theme.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right? 10/07/2023 at 10:35 By Matthew JC Powell Health service techie learns what happens when you brute-force a bureaucracy Who, Me?  Ah, dear reader, it’s so delightful to have your company once again for Who, Me? in which fine upstanding Regizens like yourself regale us

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NASA humanoid robot to be tested as remote oil rig attendant 10/07/2023 at 09:32 By Laura Dobberstein Doing the dirty work for Australia’s Woodside Energy will help prepare bot for work in space NASA announced on Friday its humanoid robot, Valkyrie, is headed to Western Australia, where Perth-based Woodside Energy will put it through its

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Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones 10/07/2023 at 08:38 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: Shell fails to learn from past leaks; hundreds of solar plants found open to Mirai; and this week’s crit vulns In brief  With riots rocking the country, French parliamentarians have passed a bill granting law enforcement the right to

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Linus Torvalds calls for calm as bcachefs misses Linux 6.5 10/07/2023 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood Expect this saga to stretch out a bit over northern summer Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has delivered the first release candidate for version 6.5 of the kernel, but warned this release may not go smoothly.… This article is

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Manufacturing safety: Effective planning & communication in emergencies 10/07/2023 at 07:14 By Creating an effective emergency response plan can help protect workers and the business from physical security threats. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Strategies for justifying security tech investments 10/07/2023 at 07:14 By New security technologies can streamline processes in ways to justify the upfront cost, especially in times of limited staff. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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China ends crackdown on web giants with colossal fines for Ant Group, Tencent 10/07/2023 at 05:39 By Simon Sharwood Alibaba’s valuation of its fintech outfit now way below numbers touted ahead of cancelled 2020 IPO China’s crackdown on web giants Alibaba and Tencent appears to be over, with the two to pay a combined $1.4

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Microsoft to hike prices in Australia and New Zealand 10/07/2023 at 04:32 By Laura Dobberstein ALSO: Google Cloud extends support in Korean and Mandarin; Cambodia lashes Meta; MSFT India boss bails; and more Asia In Brief  Microsoft last week announced its consistent global pricing policy means Australian and New Zealand customers will soon pay more

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Let’s take a look at those US Supreme Court decisions and how they will affect tech 08/07/2023 at 18:03 By Thomas Claburn Rulings on affirmative action and free speech may not play nicely with diversity initiatives Analysis  The US Supreme Court has issued two decisions that threaten to upend efforts by tech companies to become

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Two Spyware Apps on Google Play with 1.5 Million Users Sending Data to China 08/07/2023 at 11:32 By Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware, putting the privacy and security of up to 1.5 million Android users at risk. These apps engage in deceptive behaviour and secretly

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Improve Your Security WordPress Spam Protection With CleanTalk Anti-Spam 08/07/2023 at 09:47 By Every website owner or webmaster grapples with the issue of spam on their website forms. The volume of spam can be so overwhelming that finding useful information within it becomes quite challenging. What exacerbates this issue is that spam can populate your

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Cybersecurity is top concern for education technology leaders 07/07/2023 at 23:04 By A recent report by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) analyzed the cybersecurity priorities of education technology (EdTech) leaders.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Vishing Goes High-Tech: New ‘Letscall’ Malware Employs Voice Traffic Routing 07/07/2023 at 21:34 By Researchers have issued a warning about an emerging and advanced form of voice phishing (vishing) known as “Letscall.” This technique is currently targeting individuals in South Korea. The criminals behind “Letscall” employ a multi-step attack to deceive victims into downloading malicious

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Lee Buttke hired as Managing Director and CISO at AgileBlue 07/07/2023 at 19:37 By Lee Buttke has been hired as Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at AgileBlue. Buttke brings threat mitigation experience. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Another Critical Unauthenticated SQLi Flaw Discovered in MOVEit Transfer Software 07/07/2023 at 17:31 By Progress Software has announced the discovery and patching of a critical SQL injection vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, popular software used for secure file transfer. In addition, Progress Software has patched two other high-severity vulnerabilities. The identified SQL injection vulnerability, tagged as

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The 2023 Security Benchmark Survey closes in one week 07/07/2023 at 17:19 By Security leaders who fill out the Security Benchmark Survey will receive the free anonymized data. Participate before the July 14 deadline. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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