- Microsoft blocks bait for ‘fastest-growing’ 365 phish kit, seizes 338 domains
Redmond names alleged ringleader, claims 5K+ creds stolen and $100k pocketed Microsoft has seized 338 websites associated with RaccoonO365 and identified the leader of the phishing service - Joshua Ogundipe - as part of a larger effort to disrupt what Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit calls the "fastest-growing tool used by cybercriminals to steal Microsoft 365 usernames and passwords."…
- Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say
Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing - a bit like people, really When lithium-ion batteries degrade, they emit acoustic signals that reveal what's going wrong inside. Now, MIT researchers say they've figured out how to interpret those sounds, and the subtle creaks and pops that come before major failures, to help predict problems before things go up in smoke.…
- Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops
Talk about an inside job Google confirmed that miscreants created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) portal, which police and other government agencies use to ask for data about Google users.…
- Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company'
250 people now have the chance to sell their freelance services on the site ai-pocalypse Freelance services marketplace Fiverr has told around 250 staffers that they are back on the market as it pivots to having "a modern, clean, AI-focused infrastructure from the ground up."…
- Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf
Mastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch Google has given the go-ahead to a plan that lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf and, on Tuesday, released its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to make it happen. The system comes with touted safeguards that are intended to prevent thieves from draining bank accounts.…
- Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists
That's optimistic based on progress so far US Energy Secretary Chris Wright believes that the country will have at least one small nuclear rector up and running by July 2026, despite the fact that not a single one has been built to date, after multiple failed attempts.…
- Apple 0-day likely used in spy attacks affected devices as old as iPhone 8
May have been used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks against 'specific targeted individuals' Apple backported a fix to older iPhones and iPads for a serious bug it patched last month – but only after it may have been exploited in what the company calls "extremely sophisticated" attacks.…
- Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits
Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…
- Self-propagating worm fuels latest npm supply chain compromise
Intrusions bear the same hallmarks as recent Nx mess The npm platform is the target of another supply chain attack, with crims already compromising 187 packages and counting.…
- Users in SAP's heartland call for greater license transparency
DSAG players grappling with cloud migration want more consistency with commercial models DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of on-prem systems to the cloud.…
- Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date
The Microsoft Axman Cometh While Windows 10 might seem to be the biggest casualty as a result of Microsoft's ax-swinging, Office and recent versions of Windows 11 are also set to be chopped.…
- Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority
Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work' The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety.…
- FileFix attacks use fake Facebook security alerts to trick victims into running infostealers
Tech evolved from PoC to global campaign in under two months An attack called FileFix is masquerading as a Facebook security alert before ultimately dropping the widely used StealC infostealer and malware downloader on Windows machines.…
- Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
Nothing says ‘circular economy’ like Microsoft stranding 400 million PCs on International E-waste Day European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft's plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.…
- JLR stuck in neutral as losses skyrocket amid cyberattack cleanup
Latest extension to factory closures takes incident response into fourth week Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a further extension to its multi-site global shutdown, bringing its cyber-related downtime to nearly four weeks.…
- The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it
Beware the meeting room zombies Beware the meeting room zombies. We don't mean you when you're listening to a colleague reading out a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation, but some expensive Microsoft meeting room hardware that may be obsolete in a few short weeks.…
- Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter
Tech giant confirms facility next to the M25 is its latest AI-fueled server farm Google today confirmed it is the mystery hyperscaler behind another European datacenter campus as it cut the ribbon on a facility situated on the outskirts of the M25 in Hertfordshire.…
- Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion
Startup slots into CI/CD pipelines to warn engineers when a change could wreck production Exclusive How big could the blast radius be if that change you're about to push to production goes catastrophically wrong? Overmind is the latest company to come up with ways to stop the explosion before it happens.…
- Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon
Devs sketch plans for two more releases this year, blending Debian foundations with modern display tech The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months.…
- China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents
Cyberspace watchdog tightens reporting regime, leaving little time to hide incidents Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to 'fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet.…
- It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days
Microsoft reminds holdouts they've got less than a month before the update tap runs dry Start the countdown! For any administrators living under a rock, Microsoft has posted another warning that Windows 10 22H2 will reach end of servicing on October 14.…
- ChatGPT: Why do most of your users ask for help writing - prose, not code?
Study that used actual input to OpenAI’s chatbot finds personal use surging Users of individual accounts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT mostly use it for research and to help with writing, according to a new study into the kind of queries fed into the service.…
- Indian court stops streaming hearings on social media to protect lawyers from mean memes
Did you hear the one about the thin-skinned barrister? The High Court of the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has stopped live-streaming hearings to protect local lawyers from ridicule on social media.…
- Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea
Nice plans for US manufacturing you had there, shame if something was to happen to them Analysis On Sunday, President Trump took to his personal social media channel to calm a growing diplomatic storm with one of America's closest allies, South Korea.…
- After years of strife, AFRINIC has elected a board. Now the hard work begins
Regional internet registry faces numerous critics and isn’t out of the legal woods The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) last week held elections and announced the appointment of eight directors, which means it has a chance to convene a board for the first time since 2022.…
- Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app
Secretive app + unreliable tech + Trump administration policies = ANGRY LETTER A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recognition in its mission to cleanse the nation of immigrants with improper documents. …
- Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned
Cautionary tale from the recent SonicWall attacks Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user's recovery codes were left sitting in a plaintext file on their desktop.…
- Engineer turned a vape into a web server
Breathe deep on internet fumes Discarded vapes are becoming the new cigarette butts in pollution terms, but a hacker has found a novel way to repurpose the chips they contain to build a web server.…
- Half of tech firms plotting restructures as AI hype bites
Study also finds M&A and changes to operating model on the way for sector More than half of tech companies are considering a complete restructure or changing their operating model in response to AI, according to research from the consulting sector.…
- Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA
We remind the world yet again that science fiction is usually a warning, not an aspiration Look to science fiction and you'll find plenty of pathways to create super soldiers. There's cloning or genetic engineering. If that fails, you could try in-utero enhancements, or maybe some cybernetic augmentation. DARPA has a different idea for the real world: inject 'em up with super blood.…
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