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QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles
Network-attached storage (NAS) specialist QNAP has disclosed and released fixes for two new vulnerabilities, one of them a zero-day discovered in early November.…
ALPHV blackmails Canadian pipeline after 'stealing 190GB of vital info'
Updated Canada's Trans-Northern Pipelines has allegedly been infiltrated by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware crew, which claims to have stolen 190 GB of data from the oil distributor.…
FCC Commissioner calls for crackdown on Apple's iMessage gatekeeping
Brendan Carr of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has called on the authority to take a closer look at Apple's actions in the Beeper Mini affair.…
Cruise swerves to hire safety guru after series of misadventures on the streets
Autonomous vehicle biz Cruise has hired a Chief Safety Officer following the dramatic incident last fall when a pedestrian was dragged under the wheels of one of its cars, precipitating a suspension of its US fleet.…
Biden admin keeps O-RAN dream alive with $42M funding for R&D facility
The Biden administration is keeping America's dreams of a future filled with open radio access network (OpenRAN) kit alive after awarding $42.3 million to a new consortium dedicated to commercialization of the tech. …
Flipper Zero takes to the big screen
A Video Game Module (VGM) containing a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller is out today for the Flipper Zero pentester multi-tool.…
Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2
If you're running a very old PC but have managed to persuade Windows 11 to boot, it looks like the rug could soon be pulled from under you, judging by a post claiming that Microsoft's code will now require an instruction not found on old CPUs.…
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023
Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze has published a report on hard drive failures for 2023, finding that rates increased during the year due to aging drives that it plans to upgrade.…
Crooks hook hundreds of exec accounts after phishing in Azure C-suite pond
The number of senior business executives stymied by an ongoing phishing campaign continues to rise with cybercriminals registering hundreds of cloud account takeovers (ATOs) since spinning it up in November.…
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all
It's only been a few months since Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck made its way to those at the front of the queue, but the arrival has been tarnished for some.…
Infosys enjoyed a boom in UK government invoices in 2023
Tech services biz Infosys enjoyed a 49 percent increase in its invoices from the UK government for 2023, according to research figures.…
ChatGPT? Sure, I've heard it. But is AI coming for my job?
What a difference a year makes. Analysts at Jefferies have run a survey showing that nearly all US office workers have heard of ChatGPT - up from just over half a year ago - yet the flipside is that some now fear automation is coming for their jobs.…
RIP John Walker, software and hardware hacker extraordinaire
Obit Polymath, pioneering developer of software and hardware, a prolific writer, and true old-school hacker John Walker has passed away.…
Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost
A letter from a former government minister to the head of education for one of the UK's largest local authorities reveals the financial disruption caused by the implementation of a Unit4 HR, finance, and payroll system.…
NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion
The NHS in Wales has decided to send up to £450 million ($568 million) of taxpayers' hard-earned cash into the bank account of Microsoft via one of its resellers, the public sector organization has confirmed.…
Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve
Meta has acknowledged that phone number reuse that allows takeovers of its accounts "is a concern," but the ad biz insists the issue doesn't qualify for its bug bounty program and is a matter for telecom companies to sort out.…
Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason
The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group (WGSBN) – the folks responsible for assigning names to minor planets and comets – last week published a bulletin [PDF] in which it gave 29 small celestial bodies their very own names.…
Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments
The team behind Chromium – the open source engine of Google Chrome and other browsers – has begun working on a way to enable those surfing the web to pay for the stuff they read or watch without any interaction.…
Infosys subsidiary named as source of Bank of America data leak
Indian tech services giant Infosys has been named as the source of a data leak suffered by the Bank of America.…
Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor
Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware's ESXi hypervisor.…