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Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files
Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands government has confirmed.…
South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25 billion plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries
South Korea has decided to dish out over $25 billion in help to industries impacted by the USA’s new tariff regime.…
Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission yesterday ordered Google to stop doing deals that require manufacturers of Android handsets to include its apps.…
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter
World War Fee The Trump administration's latest salvo in the US-China trade war has forced Nvidia to take a $5.5 billion charge, the GPU goliath revealed in a Tuesday regulatory filing that sent its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.…
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops
World war fee Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness.…
Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz
A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.…
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again
Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the EU, along with interactions users have with its chatbot.…
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum
Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses.…
Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips
World War Fee Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.…
China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks
China's state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025 Asian Winter Games.…
All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge
A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive US Treasury payment systems. This access includes personally identifiable financial information tied to millions of Americans.…
Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank
Microsoft has warned administrators that less than half a year remains until support ends for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. However, the follow-up, Exchange Server SE, won't arrive for another few months.…
Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way
Databricks, the machine learning and data lake biz valued at around $62 billion, is contributing to the open source Iceberg table format preferred by rivals in the market.…
Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one?
With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed deployment times, even for infrastructure prefabricated for AI training.…
Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week
A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China's Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that's "even better" than Cobalt Strike, using this stealthy backdoor to enable its espionage and access resale campaigns.…
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts
The proposed cuts to NASA's budget are drawing sharp criticism from US lawmakers, with one saying: "If you cut this budget, you cut into the heart of America's leadership when it comes to space exploration."…
ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK?
Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.…
Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks
Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.…
Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive
The first Intel-based Mac was 19 years ago, but new versions of apps for both Classic Mac OS and PowerPC Mac OS X still occasionally appear, and we are here for it.…