lundi 6 mai 2024
14:00Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check...It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain says interview It's been several years since President Biden signed an executive order to improve America's cybersecurity. The US Government Accountability Office said recently there's still a number of critical goals stemming from that order to accomplish.…
10:32Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?Users continue to give Microsoft's latest and greatest a wide berth According to market share figures from Statcounter, the gap between Windows 11 and Windows 10 usage is slightly growing, and not in a way we imagine Microsoft wants.…
07:30Undersea bit barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server systemTesting platform for those 'unfamiliar with the subsea environment' Subsea Cloud is offering potential customers the chance to try out its underwater datacenter facilities for up to 90 days before making any further commitments, in a bid to attract new customers to the project.…
06:37Techie's enthusiasm for decluttering fails to spark joyThankfully, luck – and a handy greybeard – came to the rescue Who, me? Welcome once again, dear readerfolk, to the sanctuary of Who, Me? in which Register readers can recount the times when their technical skills abandoned them, even if momentarily, without fear of judgment.…
01:30Germany points finger at Fancy Bear for widespread 2023 hacks, DDoS...ALSO: Microsoft promises to git gud on cybersecurity; unqualified attackers are targeting your water systems, and more infosec in brief It was just around a year ago that a spate of allegedly Russian-orchestrated cyberattacks hit government agencies in Germany, and now German officials claim to know for a fact who did it: APT28, or Fancy Bear, a Russian threat actor linked to the GRU ...
00:30Google to relocate some US jobs to India and MexicoPLUS: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more. ASIA IN BRIEF Google announced the layoff of 200 of its core team professionals last week while moving some roles to India and Mexico, according to reports.…
dimanche 5 mai 2024
16:55Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as...When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless Retrospective Ten years ago Microsoft absorbed the handset division of Nokia. The world's biggest operating systems vendor was going mobile in a big way, and buying the erstwhile world leader in mobile phones to ensure its success.…
samedi 4 mai 2024
vendredi 3 mai 2024
16:30It may take decade to shore up software supply chain security, says...Sure, we're waking to the risk, but we gotta get outta bed, warns Endor Labs founder Varun Badhwar interview The more cybersecurity news you read, the more often you seem to see a familiar phrase: Software supply chain (SSC) vulnerabilities. Varun Badhwar, founder and CEO at security firm Endor Labs, doesn't believe that's by coincidence. …
15:36Apple confirms iPadOS will fall under its Alternative Business Terms...Cupertino drops the Core Technology Fee for hobbyist developers with no revenue Apple is reluctantly bowing to the European Commission's demands that it align iPadOS with the changes planned for iOS. It has also grudgingly added two conditions in which the Core Technology Fee will not apply.…
11:30Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis...Heat shield that looks like the surface of the Moon plus fiberglass doors on the launch platform on the list A report from the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) provides new insight into the heat shield and power problems that bedeviled its Orion capsule in the uncrewed Artemis I mission and delayed the agency's first crewed mission to the Moon in more than half a century.…
10:34Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21%Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022 The global cloud market showed strong growth for the first quarter of this year, with the big three providers continuing to consolidate their stranglehold over this vital area of IT services.…
09:28Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papersIf you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help Linguistic and statistical analyses of scientific articles suggest that generative AI may have been used to write an increasing amount of scientific literature.…
08:32Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agentsRovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork Atlassian is the latest vendor to have a crack at addressing the perennial problem of enterprises scattering data across multiple applications and then finding it's impossible to understand what's happening and why.…
07:30UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is 'de facto endorsement'Lords committee slams government response to complaints from creators A committee of UK legislators has slammed the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a 'de facto endorsement' of the way tech companies build large language models.…
04:34Europol op shutters 12 scam call centers and cuffs 21 suspected...Cops prevented crims from bilking victims out of more than €10m - but couldn't stop crime against art A Europol-led operation dubbed “Pandora” has shut down a dozen phone scam centers, and arrested 21 suspects. The cops reckon the action prevented criminals from bilking victims out of more than €10 million (£8.6 million, $11 million).…
03:33Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty InternationalA 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users Indonesia has acquired spyware and surveillance technologies through a 'murky network' that extends into Israel, Greece, Singapore and Malaysia for equipment sourcing, according to Amnesty International.…
01:34Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say...Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems Exclusive Five Chinese researchers examined the configurations of nearly 14,000 government websites across the country and found worrying lapses that could lead to malicious attacks, according to a not-yet-peer-reviewed study released last week.…
jeudi 2 mai 2024
23:57Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holesI guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had Starlink’s self-imposed end of April deadline to crack down on roaming users who abuse the service has come and gone without appearing to have worked.…
22:03Microsoft, Google do a victory lap around passkeysWindows giant extends passwordless tech to everyone else Microsoft today said it will now let us common folk — not just commercial subscribers — sign into their Microsoft accounts and apps using passkeys with their face, fingerprint, or device PIN.…