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Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims
Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg A California city, a Spanish fashion giant, an Indian paper manufacturer, and two pharmaceutical companies are the alleged victims of what looks like a new ransomware gang that started leaking stolen info this week....
No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom
Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that's perhaps far more vast than most people realize, and it desperately needs regulation....
Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them
To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap The Iranian cyber snoops who stole files from the Trump campaign, with the intention of leaking those documents, tried to slip the data to the Biden camp - but were apparently ignored, according to Uncle Sam....
Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS
Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue The European Commission intends to force Apple to open its walled garden....
Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals
V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes The second generation of Starlink satellites being lobbed into orbit by SpaceX might not reflect as much sunlight as the old ones, yet astronomers say they're leaking up to 32 times the unintended radio waves instead....
1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage
Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike's outage in July are dropping their current vendor's products....
Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate
This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,' project chief laughs Linux is 33 years old. Its creator, Linus Torvalds, still enjoys an argument or two but is baffled why the debate over Rust has attracted so much heat....
Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations
Better check your widgets, people Security researchers say that thousands of companies are potentially leaking secrets from their internal knowledge base (KB) articles via ServiceNow misconfigurations....
ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it
Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts Over the last 20 years, ERP is the category of enterprise software deemed slowest to modernize because of priority given to sexier front office applications and senior decision-makers' aversion to risk....
Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe
Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has declared it needs fresh powers after the European Commission elected not to investigate Microsoft's acquihire of AI startup Inflection....
UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group
4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed a report with London's Metropolitan Police they hope will lead to charges against Pegasus peddler NSO Group....
Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding Interview Acclaimed engineer Kelsey Hightower, who stopped coding for money in 2023, remains an influential figure in the world of software, and he's proposing something that might stir up the open source community....
With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right
Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers UK government IT contracts worth 23.4 billion are due to end during the current five-year Parliament, according to researchers who warn that poor performing suppliers are hardly ever excluded from bidding again....
SiFive shifts from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator
Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle SiFive, having designed RISC-V CPU cores for various AI chips, is now offering to license the blueprints for its own homegrown full-blown machine-learning accelerator....
Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters
Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has predicted his hyperscale semiconductor customers will continue building AI clusters for another three to five years, with each generation of machines to double in size....
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin
Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor The Tor project has insisted its privacy-preserving powers remain potent, countering German reports that user anonymity on its network can be and has been compromised by police....
NTT Data, IBM, team on mainframe cloud for banks
SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE The mainframe has found another role, thanks to Japan's IT services giant NTT Data which has decided to build a hybrid cloud service based on the IBM LinuxONE platform....
Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers
Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume Lenovo revealed on Tuesday that it will manufacture AI servers at its plant in Puducherry, India, and has opened a new infrastructure research and development lab in Bengalaru....
LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in
You'll have to opt out if you don't like it - EU and a few others excepted LinkedIn started harvesting user-generated content to train its AI without asking for permission, angering netizens....
Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win
Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn't so lucky Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a 1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior....
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds
Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them....
Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? In an intriguing move, notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims once again to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS)....
Putin really wants Trump back in the White House
US govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls' latest antics to Make America Grate Again Russia really wants Donald Trump to be the next US President, judging by reports from American government agencies and now Microsoft's threat intelligence team....
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says
We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg, as Cisco also cuts staff as promised IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, our sources have said....
Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war
Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today First it was pagers, now Lebanon is being rocked by Hezbollah's walkie-talkies detonating across the country, leaving more than a dozen dead....
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT
Getting sloppy, Xi Exclusive Chinese state-sponsored spies have been spotted inside a global engineering firm's network, having gained initial entry using an admin portal's default credentials on an IBM AIX server....
California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one
Newsom still worried about SB 1047's 'chilling effect' on AI industry tax dollar revenue innovation in the state California Governor Gavin Newsom signed five AI-related bills into law this week, but a pivotal one remains unsigned, and the Democrat politico isn't sure about its future....
Microsoft unveils Office LTSC 2024 for users that remain stubbornly offline
What do you mean you don't want Copilot and Microsoft 365 services? Microsoft has released what could be the penultimate perpetual licensed version of Office....
Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot
Surely at least one crew will get there in the next ten years? Intuitive Machines has bagged a contract worth up to $4.82 billion to support NASA's lunar relay systems....
Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure
Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of 'em Microsoft is joining with BlackRock and other private equity investors in a new AI fund that aims to eventually raise $100 billion for datacenters and their supporting power infrastructure....
Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform
Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Hours after confirming they had pwned the supposedly uncrackable encrypted messaging platform used for all manner of organized crime, Ghost, cops have now named the suspect they cuffed last night, who is charged with being the alleged mastermind....
Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray
AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot's work The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have become less trusting of contributors following the xz backdoor, according to open source package security firm Tidelift....
UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B
Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a 958.7 million ($1.2 billion) search for a supplier to develop business processes for new ERP and HR systems to bring together four central government departments....
Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings
Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you've got there Google thinks Microsoft's software licensing is impeding customer choice; Microsoft says AWS has "first mover" advantage; AWS also picks on Microsoft's licensing - but all are against remedies being applied to the cloud market that might impact themselves....
Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared
'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units Feature As Russian special forces push more overtly into online operations, network defenders should be on the hunt for digital intruders looking to carry out cyberattacks that end in physical destruction and harm....
The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world
As AI automates programming, it could be worth exploring the value of bespoke code Part 2 A thought experiment: If the computer business responds to commoditization and globalization like other manufacturing industries do, where does that leave programmers - and users?...
Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users
Mac and Android loyals: you can look, but no calculation for now Office power users, rejoice: Python in Excel is now generally available - provided you have the right license and machine....
New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet
Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won't bother reading it The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architectures consider the human rights implications of their efforts....
China's tech giants buy into Indonesia - just like US tech giants did in India
GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake Chinese tech giant Alibaba showed it's not just Meta, Google and Amazon that can use their financial heft to buy a foothold in the developing world by striking a deal with Indonesian superapp firm GoTo Group....
Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware
Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost - an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service Australia's Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged a man with creating and administering an app named Ghost that was allegedly "a dedicated encrypted communication platform ... built solely for the criminal underworld" and which enabled crims to arrange acts of violence, launder money, and traffic illicit drugs....
Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls
The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts....
WhatsApp fix to make View Once chats actually disappear is beaten in less than a week
View Forever, more like it, as Meta's privacy feature again revealed to be futile with a little light hacking A fix deployed by Meta to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp's so-called View Once messages - photos, videos, and voice recordings that disappear from chats after a recipient sees them - has been defeated in less than a week by white-hat hackers....
VMware patches remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation
Bug reports made in China Broadcom has emitted a pair of patches for vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server that a miscreant with network access to the software could exploit to completely commandeer a system. This also affects Cloud Foundation....
No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others
Anthropic Claude 3.5 shines in Chatterbox Labs safety test Feature Anthropic has positioned itself as a leader in AI safety, and in a recent analysis by Chatterbox Labs, that proved to be the case....
Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theft despite bounty payout
Chocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access Overly permissive settings in Google Cloud's Document AI service could be abused by data thieves to break into Cloud Storage buckets and steal sensitive information....
Hey kids, wanna clock the ISS? ESA's Astro Pi challenge runs your code in space
Send astronauts nice pixel art, or try something a little harder The next round of the European Space Agency's Astro Pi challenge is open, inviting participants to use the diminutive computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to calculate the orbiting outpost's speed....
Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode
Eight-year-old among those slain, Israel blamed, Iran's Lebanese ambassador wounded, it's said Lebanon says at least nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed today after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across the country. Israel has been blamed....
SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience
Some good news for Elon - 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party Elon Musk's impatience has led to the US Federal Aviation Administration proposing $633,009 in civil penalties against his SpaceX operation for allegedly violating its launch licenses last year....
Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M
Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up The trend of ransomware crews claiming to sell stolen data privately instead of leaking it online continues with Rhysida marketing the data allegedly belonging to Port of Seattle for 100 Bitcoin (around $5.9 million)....
IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer
Big Blue's Prodigy from the 1980s comes back to haunt FarmVille giant IBM's patent farm has yielded another bumper crop, with a Delaware jury awarding Big Blue $45 million in damages from mobile games maker Zynga....
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