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It’s definitely not a cyberattack though! Really!

The UK's tax collections agency says cyberbaddies defrauded it of £47 million ($63 million) late last year, but insists the criminal case was not a cyberattack.…

Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks

Sophos thinks a single person or group called "ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to get their hands on malicious code.…

Redmond doubles down on AI by doubling Ryan Roslansky's workload

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky is to lead the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot teams in the latest Redmond reshuffle.…

'Most people are f**king scared of AI, like we're feeding a monster'

The current craze for AI has helped drive a wave of datacenter building, but the industry has run into opposition from local communities in many areas, something it is understandably keen to address.…

Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in

It's been a year since Databricks bought Tabular for $1 billion, livening up the sleepy world of table formats.…

Accenture points to AI hiring spree, with London dominating demand

UK tech vacancies are up by 21 percent to hit their highest levels since before the pandemic, according to research from Accenture.…

Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event

HashiCorp is now an IBM company, with one staffer remarking: "We're actually quite happy for it, most of us sitting in this room at least."…

Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse

US Coast Guard and civilian vessels have rescued 22 sailors off the coast of Alaska after some of the electric cars they were transporting caught fire.…

Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010

A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.…

Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators

Ukrainian telcos and ISPs have leased their IPv4 holdings to stay afloat during the nation’s war with Russia.…

To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password

IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability.…

All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site

Reddit, the popular internet discussion forum, sued Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that the AI biz scraped content generated by its users in violation of contractual terms and technical barriers.…

New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight

Mounting losses and financial turmoil has Intel cutting the deadweight, an effort that won’t end with axing staff.…

Recompiled binaries and phone threats used to boost the pressure

Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in their double-extortion campaigns - including exploiting a security flaw in remote-access tool SimpleHelp if orgs haven't patched it.…

Silicon photonics and gallium nitride a major focus

GlobalFoundries plans to funnel another $3 billion into US semiconductor production, bringing its total investment to $16 billion, the New York-based foundry operator said on Wednesday.…

Drones are not enough

Following a daring drone attack on Russian airfields, Ukrainian military intelligence has reportedly also hacked the servers of Tupolev, the Kremlin's strategic bomber maker.…

Login.gov hasn't shown its backup testing policy is working, GAO warns

The US government's Login.gov identity verification system could be one cyberattack, or just a routine IT hiccup, away from serious trouble, say auditors, because it hasn't shown its backup testing policy is actually in use or effective.…

Literally adding insult to injury

Kettering Health patients who had chemotherapy sessions and pre-surgery appointments canceled due to a ransomware attack in May now have to deal with the painful prospect that their personal info may have been leaked online.…

Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors

A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…

Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon

It is 60 years since Ed White became the first American to float outside a spacecraft.…