While you're having a blast, your phone could be telling your family you're dead Perhaps "a million hours of crash data, real-world driving and crash test labs" aren't quite enough for Apple's car crash detection feature on the iPhone 14 amid report…
Lees meerChina thinks America targets its tech to kill off competition, and some believe economic standoff on way Analysis Nvidia believes it will not be affected by the latest US controls on technology, if only because it is already under similar restricti…
Lees meerCupertino managed to buck the trend with year-on-year growth of 40% Global PC shipments declined in calendar Q3 by 15 percent year-on-year thanks to reduced demand and lingering supply chain issues, according to number cruncher IDC.…
Lees meerUS consumers start to get the message about protecting themselves online End users, often viewed by infosec specialists as a corporation's weakest link, appear to be finally understanding the importance of good security and privacy practices.…
Lees meerResearch by Lansweeper shows Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements still at play Nearly 43 percent of millions of devices studied by asset management provider Lansweeper are unable to upgrade to Windows 11 due to the hardware requirements Micr…
Lees meerSecond of Singapore telco's Australian businesses to be prised open by criminals in weeks Singtel has confirmed that another Australian business it owns, consulting unit Dialog, has fallen victim to a cyber burglary just weeks after the mammoth data…
Lees meerBespoke botnet up for grabs from outfit praised for, er, customer service A Russia based threat group that set up a malware distribution shop earlier this year is behind a Swiss Army knife-like botnet that comes with a range of other malicious capab…
Lees meerChallenge your people to try to break into your systems, and see how interesting life gets for your colleagues Opinion People are the biggest problem in corporate infosec. Make them the biggest asset. …
Lees meerIn the immortal words of Shaggy: It wasn't me Who, Me? This week's instalment of Who, Me takes a slightly different turn, as in the end (spoiler alert) it wasn't their fault. But what a lesson to learn, nonetheless.…
Lees meerExpands into a sector so toxic many won't touch it Supposedly ingenious schemes to revolutionize the finance industry with crypto are not hard to find – nor are their failures. And scarcely a day passes on which a cryptocurrency venture's infosec is…
Lees meerPosture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom Four researchers at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory at the University of West England have enlisted fungi to measure how people walk.…
Lees meerUS software developer Chetu ordered to pay restitution for employee's unlawful termination A telephone sales rep in the Netherlands has won an unfair dismissal court case against his former employer, US software company Chetu, after he was fired for…
Lees meerTo get you upgrading faster, vSphere will now be released for Initial Availability before reaching General Availability VMware has acknowledged what most IT pros have learned the hard way – never buy a first-generation product – with a revised relea…
Lees meerEmperor penguin swipes Intel's attitude to ECC memory and maybe wimpy Mac performance too If the next version of the Linux kernel emerges a little slower than usual, blame a dodgy DIMM in Linus Torvalds's AMD Threadripper-powered PC and the vagaries…
Lees meerPLUS: SK hynix outgasses Putin; Canon's new litho plant; Equinix into Indonesia; and more! Asia In Brief South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK hynix have reportedly reacted cautiously to the Biden administration's swingeing bans on certain chip te…
Lees meerRPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Instead, here's how it could be subverted An internet security mechanism called Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), intended to safeguard the routing of data traffic, is broken, according to security…
Lees meerIt's not like the good old days with iffy cryptography and begging for keys Comment It's getting difficult these days to find a ransomware group that doesn't steal data and promise not to sell it if a ransom is paid off. What's more, these criminal…
Lees meerPlus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly In brief America's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is looking into how AI technologies can be used to create a "Digital Police Officer" or "D-P…
Lees meerAlso, Albania almost called in NATO over cyber attacks, and Facebook warns of account-stealing mobile apps In brief An executive order signed by President Biden on Friday to setting out fresh rules on how the US and Europe share people's private pe…
Lees meerRadio comms vulnerabilities detailed A couple of vulnerabilities in Ikea smart lighting systems can be exploited to make lights annoyingly flicker for hours.…
Lees meerHow's your day going? Cryptocurrency exchange Binance temporarily halted its blockchain network on Thursday in response to a cyberattack that led to the theft of two million BNB tokens, notionally exchangeable for $566 million in fiat currency.…
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