VMware ran tests and saw some nasty numbers. Performance of next kernel otherwise uncontroversial VMware engineers have tested the Linux kernel's fix for the Retbleed speculative execution bug, and report it can impact compute performance by a whopping 70 percent.... [...]
Beijing thinks standards should include central network controls. Washington does not The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has relaxed restrictions that barred export of some encryption technologies to Huawei, in the name of ensuring the United States is in a better position to negotiate global …
Yes, that’s a lot to digest: Marshall Islands legislators allegedly bribed to make it possible About halfway between The Philippines and Hawaii is a place called Rongelap Atoll that’s infamous for having been unintentionally irradiated by nuclear weapons tests conducted by America at nearby Bikini Atoll in …
National Security Agency apparently has tools that crack Solaris boxes China has accused the United States of a savage cyber attack on a university famed for conducting aerospace research and linked to China's military.... [...]
MP alleges taxpayer database – which holds personal info on millions – has come under attack A Pakistani parliamentary committee has labelled its own cybersecurity agency "incompetent".... [...]
MP alleges taxpayer database – which holds personal info on millions – has come under attack A Pakistani parliamentary committee has labelled its own cybersecurity agency "incompetent".... [...]
Windows Defender update fixed the mess after a weekend of false positive weirdness Microsoft appears to have fixed a problem that saw its Defender antivirus program identify apps based on the Chromium browser engine and/or Electron JavaScript framework as malware, and suggest users remove them.... [...]
PLUS: Australia mints a physical crypto-coin; Alibaba Cloud claims world's biggest DC; India’s space airbags; and more China will conduct a three month blitz to cleanse the local internet of "rumors and false information".... [...]
Another reason not to play 1989's Rhythm Nation – it messes with some hard disk drives The music video for Janet Jackson's 1989 pop hit Rhythm Nation has been recognized as a cybersecurity vulnerability after Microsoft reported it can crash old laptop computers.... [...]
Somebody went after crypto-centric companies’ outsourced email but the damage was felt in the cloud Junior cloud Digital Ocean has revealed that some of its clients’ email addresses were exposed to attackers, thanks to an attack on email marketing service Mailchimp.... [...]
Local startup can make it happen over 150km India's military has celebrated the nation's Independence Day by announcing it will adopt locally developed quantum key distribution (QKD)technology that can operate across distances of 150km.... [...]
Cyberspace regulator's fraud report finds all is not well behind the Great Firewall Fraudsters in China have targeted a child with promises of allowing them to get around the nation's time limits on playing computer games – for a mere $560, according to the nation's cyberspace administration. Yesterday the CAC …
At least Switchzilla thinks they're salvageable, unlike the boxes it ordered binned back in June Cisco has revealed four of its small business router ranges have critical flaws – for the second time in 2022 alone.... [...]
Plan to educate the children turned out to be a 'won't someone think of the children?' moment The UK's Parliament has ended its presence on TikTok after MPs pointed out the made-in-China social media service probably sends data about its users back to Beijing.... [...]
And as if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan's presidential website ahead of senior politico's arrival Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has tied her controversial visit to Taiwan to an alleged barrage of China-directed cyber-attacks against the territory.... [...]
Effects still being felt today across US government The United States' federal court system "faced an incredibly significant and sophisticated cyber security breach, one which has since had lingering impacts on the department and other agencies."... [...]
This time local companies provide the images and there's no mention of national security worries Google has brought its Street View service – which offers photographs of most locations on Google Maps – back to India, six years after the nation rejected it as an invasion of privacy and a threat …
Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing IBM has started offering quantum-resistant crypto – using the quantum-resistant crypto recommended by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).... [...]
Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys Security vendor WithSecure, which was spun out in March 2022 as F-Secure’s enterprise security arm, claims it’s found malware that targets Facebook Business accounts.... [...]
Proposed working group would see Moscow's miltech conglomerate Rostec operate in Tehran Iran's Communications Ministry joined in a pledge with Russian state-owned defence and technology conglomerate Rostec to explore future collaboration in e-government, information security, and other areas.... [...]
Fixes issued, warns it 'has not exhaustively enumerated all potential consequences' Atlassian has warned users of its Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible, and Jira products that a pair of critical-rated flaws threaten their security.... [...]
China, as usual, says it just wants a peaceful and prosperous internet The government of Belgium has claimed it detected three Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat actors attacking its public service and defence forces.... [...]
India's Cleartrip is being very opaque about what happened An Indian flight booking website majority-owned by US retail colossus Walmart has experienced a data breach, but is saying very little about what happened or the risks to customers.... [...]
Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs TikTok's Global Chief Security Officer Roland Cloutier has "transitioned" from his job into "a strategic advisory role focusing on the business impact of security and trust programs."... [...]
But first, there's a whole lot of AD and Intune prep to be done Microsoft's promised service to enable automatic patching of Windows has gone live.... [...]