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Cyber-scam camp operators shift operations to vulnerable countries as sanctions strike
Criminals appear to be moving cyber-scam centers to vulnerable countries.…
15 ransomware gangs ‘go dark’ to enjoy 'golden parachutes'
Infosec In Brief 15 ransomware gangs, including Scattered Spider and Lapsus$, have announced that they are going dark, and say no more attacks will be carried out in their name.…
Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions
With the end of Windows 10's regular support cycle fast approaching, and a good five years since the COVID pandemic spurred a wave of hardware replacements to support remote work, many IT departments are in the process of refreshing their fleets. But what they do with decommissioned systems is just as important as the shiny new ones they buy.…
It's time mobile devs started to think seriously about foldable smartphones
hands on Folding smartphones have been with us for six years without winning much market share, but after two weeks using Samsung's latest model, and recent reports of surging sales in the category, it feels to me like dual-screened devices are something developers now need to consider.…
Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples
Any day now, a new version of Apple's macOS is due to launch, and it will exclude the bulk of the Intel-powered models the company has ever sold. However, there are multiple ways to breathe new life into Macs that go back as far as 10 or even 15 years.…
Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are 'terrifying'
interview Scott LaValley, founder and CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, suspects he may have helped encourage Elon Musk to get into the humanoid robot business.…
HybridPetya: More proof that Secure Boot bypasses are not just an urban legend
A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows systems, making it the fourth publicly known bootkit capable of punching through the feature and hijacking a PC before the operating system loads.…
Fire up the gas turbines, says US Interior Secretary: We gotta win the AI arms race
You would think that the government official responsible for safeguarding the US' natural resources would be opposed to abandoning climate change mitigation pledges in favor of firing up fossil fuels to power AI development. …
SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs
AMD and Nvidia have already announced their next-gen datacenter GPUs will make the leap to HBM4, and if SK Hynix has its way, it’ll be the one supplying the bulk of it.…
CISA program gave out $20k+ payments to unqualified employees, auditor says
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mismanaged a program designed to retain skilled security professionals so badly that auditors have concluded it left the agency "unable to adequately protect the Nation from cyber threats." …
Samsung fixes Android 0-day that may have been used to spy on WhatsApp messages
Samsung has fixed a critical flaw that affects its Android devices - but not before attackers found and exploited the bug, which could allow remote code execution on affected devices.…
Your call is very important to us – which is why we're connecting you to a human
ai-pocalypse You'll be able to talk to a human when you need help for many years to come. A new Gartner study shows that fears about AI replacing humans with bots in call centers are unfounded, at least among Fortune 500 companies.…
All your vulns are belong to us! CISA wants to maintain gov control of CVE program
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) nearly let the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program lapse earlier this year, but a new "vision" document it released this week signals that it now wants more control over the global standard for vulnerability identification.…
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart
Imagine replacing thousands of LTO-9 tapes with just one cartridge. It's possible – if a Chinese research team's experimental DNA tape storage system reaches its theoretical maximum capacity.…
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again
After a month of receiving the silent treatment, controllers have regained contact with a TRACERS spacecraft that went offline shortly after launch.…
Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux
Between Rust, new file systems, clashes between developers, systemd absorbing its functionality, and more, rumors of possible Linux forks are being muttered again. But there is another, better way.…
1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines
More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring its borked smart laundry machines back online.…
Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs
China is moving to dominate the global market for polysilicon, a key material used in chips, by flooding the industry with cheap, subsidised product to drive producers in other countries out of business.…
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen
The US House Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would maintain NASA's budget at the same level as last year. However, lawmakers missed an opportunity to strike out the proposed $85 million relocation of a space vehicle to Houston.…
I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version
The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…