Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud, perhaps due to EU sanctions on Russia
Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash.…
China’s botched Great Firewall upgrade invites attacks on its censorship infrastructure
China’s attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its censorship apparatus, or even cut access to offshore DNS resolvers.…
China's IPv6 adoption takes a decent leap forward, especially on fixed networks
Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6.…
Lazarus Group rises again, this time with malware-laden fake FOSS
Infosec In Brief North Korea’s Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software.…
Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: 'It's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game'
interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts.…
Capacity planning a rising concern for datacenter operators as AI grows
Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads.…
Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it
Interview Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation.…
Cybercrooks attached Raspberry Pi to bank network and drained ATM cash
A ring of cybercriminals managed to physically implant a Raspberry Pi on a bank's network to steal cash from an Indonesian ATM.…
Microsoft gives in to Chromebook bullies and drops Windows 11 SE
Microsoft is discontinuing support for its Windows 11 SE variant meant to compete with ChromeOS in the education space, leaving schools that chose Microsoft over Google in the lurch just four years after the cloud-based Windows variant was released. …
Reddit is people! Which means its search might not be so damaged by AI slop
Reddit has found that trafficking in human-authored content pays well in the AI era.…
CISA roasts unnamed critical national infrastructure body for shoddy security hygiene
CISA is using the findings from a recent probe of an unidentified critical infrastructure organization to warn about the dangers of getting cybersecurity seriously wrong.…
Florida jury throws huge fine at Tesla in Autopilot crash
After two weeks of testimony, a Florida jury has found Tesla partially responsible for the death of one person and causing serious injuries to another in a crash where the driver was using the company's much-touted Autopilot system.…
Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI
An NPM package packed with cryptocurrency-stealing malware appears to have been largely AI-generated, as evidenced by its liberal use of emojis and other telltale signs.…
OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option
OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information.…
$10 billion, 10 year US Army contract elevates Palantir to defense contracting royalty
There are no official criteria for what constitutes membership in the upper echelon of the US military industrial complex, but a $10 billion deal that consolidates dozens of contracts under a single blanket purchase agreement sure makes it seem like Palantir has earned entry.…
Gadget geeks aghast at guru's geriatric GPU
As work picks up on the forthcoming Linux 6.17, many joystick-wigglers are shocked by its millionaire dev's positively ancient AMD graphics card.…
Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks
exclusive Microsoft Recall, the AI app that takes screenshots of what you do on your PC so you can search for it later, has a filter that's supposed to prevent it from screenshotting sensitive info like credit card numbers. But a The Register test shows that it still fails in many cases, creating a potential treasure trove for thieves.…
China says US spies exploited Microsoft Exchange zero-day to steal military info
China has accused US intelligence agencies of exploiting a Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit to steal defense-related data and take over more than 50 devices belonging to a "major Chinese military enterprise" for nearly a year.…
Another one bites the dust as KubeSphere kills open source edition
KubeSphere has become the latest service to abruptly yank an open source edition of a product, triggering outcry from users.…
Court upholds Epic win in Google Play Store antitrust battle
A panel of judges has dismissed Google's appeal against an antitrust verdict over its Play Store business practices.…
