Now Windows Follina zero-day exploited to infect PCs with Qbot
Data-stealing malware also paired with Black Basta ransomware gang
Research09 Jun 2022 | 4
9th > June > 2022 Archive
VMware customers fear Broadcom acquisition will stall innovation, increase cost
Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises
Virtualization09 Jun 2022 | 21
Supply chain attacks will get worse: Microsoft Security Response Center boss
RSA Conference Do you know all of your software dependencies? Spoiler alert: hardly anybody is on top of it
Security09 Jun 2022 | 10
Singapore's Grab enters maps-as-a-service market
Takes on global players with data sourced from customers, plus paid contributions from delivery drivers
Software09 Jun 2022 | 3
Five Eyes alliance’s top cop says techies are the future of law enforcement
Crims have weaponized tech and certain States let them launder the proceeds
Cyber-crime09 Jun 2022 | 15
AI chatbot trained on posts from web sewer 4chan behaved badly – just like human members
Bot was booted for being bothersome
AI + ML09 Jun 2022 | 30
AI to help study first images from James Webb Space Telescope
To find dark matter and early galaxies, Morpheus could be The One
AI + ML09 Jun 2022 | 7
Infosys celebrates first birthday of glitchy Indian tax portal by fixing another bug
Search fail added to list of embarrassing issues since debut
Software09 Jun 2022 | 4
Good news for GNOME fans as Adaptive Sync displays come to Mutter
It may sound like a trivial feature, but this sort of thing matters, and not only to gamers
OSes09 Jun 2022 | 1
Microsoft trumpets updated HR-friendly policies (that comply with recently changed laws)
Bins non-competes and promises salary transparency
Legal09 Jun 2022 | 10
Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits
Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server
Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 119
UK police to spend tens of millions on legacy comms network kit
More evidence of where that half-a-billion-a-year cost of Emergency Services Network delay is going
Networks09 Jun 2022 | 25
Linux Mint adopts Timeshift from overworked original developer
Team lead Clement Lefebvre takes over maintaining backup tool from UMix creator
Applications09 Jun 2022 | 22
Vivaldi email client released 7 years after first announcement
Multiple accounts, local storage, calendars, and feeds make it worth the wait
Software09 Jun 2022 | 56
Indian developer educator Scaler moves to America with $11k online courses
MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought
Software09 Jun 2022 | 5
Symantec: More malware operators moving in to exploit Follina
Meanwhile Microsoft still hasn't patched the fatal flaw
Security09 Jun 2022 | 11
HP pilots paper delivery service for Instant Ink subscribers
'Having to go buy paper is very painful' for customers, says CEO. Let's just say the profit margins aren't
Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 58
Salesforce faces diversity audit from activist investors
CRM slinger set to be challenged on lack of progress at investor meeting
SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 3
Microsoft accidentally turned off hardware requirements for Windows 11
Zero day? Yeah, we'll get to it. Running Windows 11 on old CPUs? OMG WE MUST FIX THIS NOW!
OSes09 Jun 2022 | 77
Twitter shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's acquisition
Mogul's team sprayed with 'firehose' of data as unending saga continues
Networks09 Jun 2022 | 49
PC shipments sink amid steady waves of supply chain, war disruptions
320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now
Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 5
Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope
Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried
Science09 Jun 2022 | 77
Semiconductor industry growth to slow in 2022, warns IDC
Chip price hikes keeping sector healthy but new fabs could lead to 'overcapacity'
Systems09 Jun 2022 | 5
Dell unveils new XPS 13 devices with Alder Lake CPUs
Best hedge against a slowing PC market? Take some design tips from Apple
Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 9
Facebook phishing campaign nets millions in IDs and cash
Hundreds of millions of stolen credentials and a cool $59 million
Cyber-crime09 Jun 2022 | 8
Intel freezes hiring for PC chip team, cites 'macroeconomic uncertainty'
Inflation, Apple M2, PC market shrink: Could the timing have been worse?
Systems09 Jun 2022 | 4
Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man
Parents claim Chinese retailer is liable for their son's tragic death
Offbeat09 Jun 2022 | 40
Apple offers improved Linux support in macOS Ventura
Penguin fans will be able to use Rosetta 2 to run x86 binaries in forthcoming update
OSes09 Jun 2022 | 7
Apple gets lawsuit over Meltdown and Spectre dismissed
Judge finds security is not a central feature of iDevices
On-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 16
NHTSA upgrades Tesla Autopilot probe, could lead to recall
Up for debate is whether Autopilot, or humans behaving badly, is the reason for Tesla's iffy safety record
Applications09 Jun 2022 | 20
Cloud services proving handy for cybercriminals, SANS Institute warns
RSA Conference Flying horses, gonna pwn me away...
Security09 Jun 2022 | 3
Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360
Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens
SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 1
AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads
Buyer beware, say analysts, technical debt will catch up with you eventually
Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 10
What keeps Mandiant Intelligence EVP Sandra Joyce up at night? The coming storm
RSA Conference The next wave of security maturity is measuring effectiveness, she told The Register
Security09 Jun 2022 | 4
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