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Lyft driver takes off with cat, global search ensues 02/10/2023 at 14:33 By Laura Dobberstein Ride-share app originally told man they’d charge him $20 for Tux’s return One man’s hunt for his cat captivated an entire town, and the internet, after a Lyft driver allegedly sped off with the kitty still inside on Saturday afternoon.… […]

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AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage since 2010 02/10/2023 at 13:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Security exec Mark Ryland spills the tea on hush-hush threat intel tool Interview  AWS has unveiled MadPot, its previously secret threat-intelligence tool that one of the cloud giant’s security execs tells us has thwarted Chinese

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Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed 02/10/2023 at 13:17 By Dan Robinson Skills shortage is also holding industry back, survey finds The datacenter industry is caught between conflicting demands: the pressure to deliver projects faster, while product and skills shortages lead to delays.… This article is an excerpt from

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Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years 02/10/2023 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark It’s about time! Set your watches! Scientists have set the clock ticking for the development of a new generation of timepieces with accuracy of up to 1 second in 300 billion years or about 22 times the age of

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OpenRefine’s Zip Slip Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code 02/10/2023 at 12:16 By A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the open-source OpenRefine data cleanup and transformation tool that could result in arbitrary code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2023-37476 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerability is a Zip Slip vulnerability that could have adverse

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Musk’s first year as Twitter’s Dear Leader is nigh 02/10/2023 at 11:32 By Rupert Goodwins How’s he done? tl;dr – not very well Opinion  Next month will see the first anniversary of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The rest of the media will be full of analyses on what’s gone right and wrong, and what

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BunnyLoader: New Malware-as-a-Service Threat Emerges in the Cybercrime Underground 02/10/2023 at 09:31 By Cybersecurity experts have discovered yet another malware-as-a-service (MaaS) threat called BunnyLoader that’s being advertised for sale on the cybercrime underground. “BunnyLoader provides various functionalities such as downloading and executing a second-stage payload, stealing browser credentials and system information, and much more,” Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers

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What’s next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers predict Broadcom’s moves 02/10/2023 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Consensus is cuts and spin-offs are coming, whether they’ll help is another matter Broadcom’s takeover of VMware is on track to conclude in just over four weeks, and while the semiconductor company’s CEO Hock Tan has pledged extra cash for

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Zanubis Android Banking Trojan Poses as Peruvian Government App to Target Users 02/10/2023 at 08:31 By An emerging Android banking trojan called Zanubis is now masquerading as a Peruvian government app to trick unsuspecting users into installing the malware. “Zanubis’s main infection path is through impersonating legitimate Peruvian Android applications and then tricking the user

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ASUS’s Zenbook S 13 is light, fast, and immediately impressive 02/10/2023 at 06:47 By Simon Sharwood Taiwanese brand is a portability and productivity contender Desktop Tourism  The Register has sensibly struck a deal with a global PC provider who dispatches machines to vultures wherever they work around the world. After spending time with the ASUS

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Yes, Singapore immigration plans to scan your face instead of your passport 02/10/2023 at 04:02 By Laura Dobberstein No, that does not mean you can leave it at home just yet Last week the internet was abuzz with talk that Singapore’s commercial Changi airport was no longer going to require passports for clearance at immigration.

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Now MOVEit maker Progress patches holes in WS_FTP 02/10/2023 at 01:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo Plus: Johnson Controls hit by IT ‘incident’, Exim and Chrome security updates, and more Infosec in brief  Progress Software, maker of the mass-exploited MOVEit document transfer tool, is back in the news with more must-apply security patches, this time for another

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EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox 30/09/2023 at 14:47 By Thomas Claburn Google says Topics warning is anti-innovative fearmongering The Electronic Frontier Foundation has urged folks to switch off several Privacy Sandbox settings in Google Chrome to mask their online habits, or to consider switching to Mozilla Firefox or Apple

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FBI Warns of Rising Trend of Dual Ransomware Attacks Targeting U.S. Companies 30/09/2023 at 14:31 By The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a new trend of dual ransomware attacks targeting the same victims, at least since July 2023. “During these attacks, cyber threat actors deployed two different ransomware variants against victim

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Iranian APT Group OilRig Using New Menorah Malware for Covert Operations 30/09/2023 at 12:46 By Sophisticated cyber actors backed by Iran known as OilRig have been linked to a spear-phishing campaign that infects victims with a new strain of malware called Menorah. “The malware was designed for cyberespionage, capable of identifying the machine, reading and uploading files

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NASA delays already-late $1B Psyche probe’s visit to metal-rich asteroid 30/09/2023 at 12:17 By Katyanna Quach Given it was first due to blast off last year, what’s another week or so? NASA has pushed back the launch date of its Psyche asteroid probe to October 12 as engineers make sure the spacecraft’s nitrogen gas thrusters

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New Critical Security Flaws Expose Exim Mail Servers to Remote Attacks 30/09/2023 at 08:01 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Exim mail transfer agent that, if successfully exploited, could result in information disclosure and remote code execution. The list of flaws, which were reported anonymously way back in June 2022, is as follows –

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China suggests America ‘carefully consider’ those chip investment bans 30/09/2023 at 00:47 By Tobias Mann We thought you people loved spending dollars, what gives? China has formally asked the United States to reconsider rules curbing investments in companies based in the Middle Kingdom.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads 30/09/2023 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn From AI to just plain aaaiiiee! Microsoft introduced its Bing Chat AI search assistant in February and a month later began serving ads alongside it to help cover costs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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PhD student guilty of 3D-printing ‘kamikaze’ drone for Islamic State terrorists 29/09/2023 at 22:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle ‘Research purposes’ excuse didn’t fly A PhD student has been found guilty of building a potentially deadly drone for Islamic State terrorists, in part using his home 3D printer.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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