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Trump tariff turmoil hurting global smartphone market, but hitting US hardest
World War Fee The Trump administration's chaotic tariff regime is likely to have a serious impact on the smartphone market worldwide, but the latest forecasts predict the disruption will be felt most keenly in the one economy Trump is trying to protect: The United States. …
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
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.…
Crims stole 40,000 people's data from our network, admits publisher Lee Enterprises
Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year.…
Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?
World War Fee PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.…
Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?
UK legislators are questioning why Apple and Google have yet to implement measures to allow smartphones to be locked, reset, and prevented from accessing cloud services after they've been stolen, as requested by police.…
HPE working on Plan B if DoJ nixes the Juniper deal it rates as shareholders' rocket to riches
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri remains optimistic that US regulators will allow its planned acquisition of Juniper Networks but has admitted the company has considered other plans if regulators nix the deal.…
UK CyberEM Command to spearhead new era of armed conflict
Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says "there are pockets of excellence" but improvements must be made to ensure the country's capability meets the needs of national defense.…
Need for speed? CityFibre punts 5.5 Gbps symmetrical broadband at ISPs
Alternative UK network CityFibre has lifted the lid on a 5.5 Gbps wholesale package it says will allow internet service provider (ISP) customers to operate a service more than twice as fast than its current top-speed fiber product.…
Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones
Interview Mikko Hyppönen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he's moving onto drone warfare.…
Broadcom aims a Tomahawk at Nvidia's AI networking empire with 102.4T photonic switch
Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and co-packaged optics flavors.…
‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources
The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed to name the perpetrator.…
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections.…
You say Cozy Bear, I say Midnight Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, APT29 …
Opinion Microsoft and CrowdStrike made a lot of noise on Monday about teaming up with other threat-intel outfits to "bring clarity to threat-actor naming."…
Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed
Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep the lights on at an Illinois nuke plant that was facing an uncertain future once state subsidies dry up in 2027. …
Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild
Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day.…
Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU
Microsoft has announced more tweaks to Windows in a bid to stay on the right side of Europe's Digital Markets Act, including a promise that Edge will only nag users to become their default browser if they open it first.…
X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it
Elon Musk's X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a "whole new architecture," but as with many a Muskian proclamation, there's reason to doubt what's been said. …
Crooks fleece The North Face accounts with recycled logins
Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts using login creds pinched from breaches elsewhere.…
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region "backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections."…
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
User adoption of Windows 11 is slowing down, with the operating system still lagging behind Windows 10 as end of support nears.…