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The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams
Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…
Taiwan indicts three over alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged three people over the alleged theft of TSMC's trade secrets.…
Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL
Vintage computing enthusiast Colin Hoad has released a gift to anyone who fondly remembers Psion's classic EPOC-based palmtops and their Open Programming Language (OPL): a language server which brings modern quality-of-life features to the OPL programmer, regardless of their development environment.…
Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'
Interview European cloud provider OVHcloud has long warned about the risks of relying on foreign tech giants for critical infrastructure – especially when it comes to data sovereignty.…
GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist
The latest release of GhostBSD, an easy graphical FreeBSD distribution, includes a brand new macOS-like desktop environment, "Gershwin."…
Salesforce data missing? It might be due to Salesloft breach, Google says
Google says a recent spate of Salesforce-related breaches was caused by attackers stealing OAuth tokens from the third-party Salesloft Drift app.…
What a difference 2 years makes: MariaDB buys back SkySQL
It's less than two years since MariaDB spun out SkySQL, but it's already unspinning the database-as-a-service outfit, which has since been marinated in AI sauce.…
EchoStar sells off its spectrum for more than its total market cap
US telco EchoStar, valued around $14.5 billion on Wednesday morning, has sold its American spectrum allocation to AT&T for $23 billion.…
VMware: The private cloud's main purpose is now keeping developers happy
Private clouds are all about keeping developers happy and productive, according to Krish Prasad, senior veep and general manager of Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation division.…
Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10
SpaceX has finally managed a test flight of Starship without anything creating an impromptu firework display.…
Who are you again? Infosec experiencing 'Identity crisis' amid rising login attacks
Infosec pros are losing confidence in their identity providers' ability to keep attackers out, with Cisco-owned Duo warning that the industry is facing what it calls "an identity crisis."…
Datacenters face rising thirst as Europe dries up
Water scarcity is rising up the agenda as one of the major concerns for datacenters in Europe following an unusually hot and dry summer, marked by intense heatwaves in southern parts of the continent.…
More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive
The number of companies developing AI processor chips now numbers well over a hundred, according to new research.…
Intel pitches Clearwater Forest as a consolidation play for all you hoarding ancient Xeons
Hot Chips The first datacenter silicon to use Intel's two-nanometer-class 18A process tech won't arrive for a while yet, but that's not stopping the struggling x86 giant from making its sales pitch early.…
BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress
Systems Approach I’ve been working on a chapter about infrastructure security for our network security book.…
Google issued ‘State-backed attack in progress’ warnings after spotting web hijack scheme
Google has warned customers of a suspected state-backed attack after observing a web traffic hijacking campaign.…
Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban
world war fee The Chinese lockdown on rare-earth minerals has drawn the ire of President Trump, who is threatening crushing tariffs if the Middle Kingdom doesn't cough up more rare earths.…
Anthropic teases Claude for Chrome: Don't try this at home
Anthropic is now offering a research preview of Claude for Chrome, a browser extension that enables the firm's machine learning model to automate web browsing.…
Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI
Google has updated its Gemini AI image generation tool with a build that caused a stir after it was released under the code name Nano Bananas.…
First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it's not active – yet
ESET malware researchers Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strycek have discovered what they describe as the "first known AI-powered ransomware," which they named PromptLock. …