Alabama hospital admits cyberattack compromised data on 61,000 patients
Pwned info includes medical records, insurance details, and Social Security numbers in some cases An Alabama hospital is officially informing more than 61,000 patients that their personal data was compromised after a cyberattack in October 2023.
It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives
Because that's the group most likely to share misinformation online Since Elon Musk bought Twitter nearly two years ago a $44 billion acquisition he tried to pull out of the mogul has driven a narrative that moderation of the microblogging website disproportionately targeted conservatives, libertarians, and Trump
Hacker News: Android 14 Adds New Security Features to Block 2G Exploits and Baseband Attacks
How Far is it?The Register: Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue
Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout
AI Overviews get links to referenced websites and ads Almost two decades ago, the head of Google's then nascent enterprise division referred to the firm's search service as "an uber-command line interface to the world."
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DOJ, Microsoft seize 107 domains used in Russia's Star Blizzard phishing attacks
Winter is coming The US Department of Justice and Microsoft have seized 107 websites used by Russian cyberspies in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive information from US government agencies, think tanks, and other victims.
Valve powers up Arch Linux because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck
Distro behind the handheld console announces corporate sponsorship Valve is officially sponsoring the Linux distro that powers the gaming giant's Steam Deck console.
Hacker News: The Secret Weakness Execs Are Overlooking: Non-Human Identities
The Register: Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU
Software supply chain security is a crucial part of your planning. Read our new blog to learn the 4 key areas of risk and how to proactively prepare for vulnerabilities:
Follow your processes, people. Put in a ticket with IT for issues and let it take it's course. Attempting to circumvent the process will almost always lead to worse results and your IT people categorizing you as a "problem child".
Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU
Liquid cooling on the mind Fujitsu and server maker Supermicro are jointly working on a platform featuring Fujitsu's upcoming Arm-based high-performance MONAKA processor, as well as liquid cooling systems.
Average North American CISO salary now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick
Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to A survey of nearly 700 CISOs in the US and Canada has found that salaries have risen over the last year to an average of $565,000 and a median of $403,000, with the top 10 percent of execs pulling in over $1 million.
Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters
Tech's consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling Cooling specialist Submer has scored $55.5 million in a fresh funding round to fuel expansion, touting its tech as part of a more sustainable way to operate datacenters something sorely needed in the era of AI.
Hacker News: North Korean Hackers Using New VeilShell Backdoor in Stealthy Cyber Attacks
The Register: Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI
Google's shift to Rust Programming cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 68%.
Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage of memory-safe vulnerabilities discovered in Android dropping from 76% to 24% over a period of 6 years.
Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam
Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina Two British-Nigerian men were sentenced for serious business email compromise schemes in the US this week, netting them millions of dollars from local government entities, construction companies, and co
NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice
Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science Engineers have turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument in an effort to eke out the veteran probe's dwindling power supply.
Hacker News: LockBit Ransomware and Evil Corp Members Arrested and Sanctioned in Joint Global Effort
The Register: NIST's security flaw database still backlogged with 17K+ unprocessed bugs. Not great
The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter
Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format Interview In June, Databricks shelled out $1 billion for Tabular, a startup backer of the open source Apache Iceberg table format, signalling just how important the rather niche t
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The customer company is changing 2FA solution. The new one requires to enable biometric on the mobile device. Which I'm not very keen of.
What happens if I agree to establish a work profile on my device (Android 14) Is it possible to have biometrics enabled only on work profile, but not on the private (host) profile
Ransomware crew infects 100+ orgs monthly with new MedusaLocker variant
Crooks 'like a sysadmin, with a malicious slant' Exclusive An extortionist armed with a new variant of MedusaLocker ransomware has infected more than 100 organizations a month since at least 2022, according to Cisco Talos, which recently discovered a "substantial" Windows credential data dump that sheds light
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Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it
Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else Fewer than one in five Brits report being happy with the way their personal data is handled by big tech companies, yet the furthest many will go is to reject optional cookies on the web.
Hacker News: INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa
The Register: China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure
Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration
British retailer Asda admits tech divorce from former owner Walmart has been delayed again Exclusive Asda, the UK's third largest retailer, discovered a multi-million pound discrepancy between its distribution system and SAP ERP tech installed earlier this year, according to an internal Major Incident r
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MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads
Shifting battle-hardened systems to document model are your skills and tools ready MongoDB has used the release of version 8.0 to defend its viability as the underpinning of business-critical transactional systems.
The slides, the video, and the text behind my presentation at EuroBSDCon 2024 - 'Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs.'
I heard the tail-end of something about this many hours ago on the radio, but only just now have had time to do my daily news sites perusals. I stopped bothering with this & closed it, as soon as i got to this bit:
The RTB system is responsible for determining which personalised ads you see whenever you go online.
It's so flamin' simple these days to safeguard yourself online against this crap, just by judicious selection of browser & extensions / AddOns. I have not seen any ads for at least 15 years but prolly much longer, & it ain't rocket science. IMO peeps who use the interwebz naked no, not like that these days are explicitly signalling that their privacy is unimportant to them, so all bets are off. For actual pollies & bureaucrats to do this, & thus make themselves vulnerable, is bloody barking bonkers, not to mention deeply irresponsible & unprofessional. Geez Loiuse
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Hacker News: Ivanti Endpoint Manager Flaw Actively Targeted, CISA Warns Agencies to Patch
The Register: Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it
Fujitsu, Supermicro, team for Arm-based servers
MONAKA processor due in 2027 to be worked into liquid-cooled rackscale hardware Fujitsu on Wednesday announced a collaboration that Supermicro to build liquid-cooled servers based on the Japanese giants forthcoming Arm-based MONAKA processor.