Passphrases PIP'd, FIDO and W3C projects promoted Analysis Microsoft, Apple and Google – all longtime proponents of doing away with passwords for authentication purposes – are throwing their support behind standards developed by the FIDO Alliance a…
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Lees meerUS requires a bit more transparency than some Chinese tech companies are giving More Chinese tech companies including Tencent, JD.com, and China Mobile face delisting by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) thanks to opaque disclosures.…
Lees meerIt's Q2 2022 – and remote/mixed access is still very much a thing Citrix has made deals with cloud providers to sell its Desktop as a Service (Daas) platform, providing enterprises with a choice of host for its virtual desktop products.…
Lees meerControversial analytics company sees expansion into healthcare continuing Peter Thiel-founded analytics company Palantir has won a $90 million, five-year contract with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a "holistic" enterprise …
Lees meerLove your Windows Update Compliance reports? Best learn to love Azure AD as well Users of Microsoft's Update Compliance service have been warned that a move to Azure Active Directory will be required if they wish to continue using the service.…
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom subsidiary claims Allen Wu refusing to 'hand over his management duties' The Arm saga is continuing with the ousted CEO of Arm's renegade Chinese division still refusing to step down, despite being fired again recently.…
Lees meerWoos European firms who don't want their data caught in the US Cloud Act dragnet Google is joining Microsoft in its attempts to tackle EU concerns regarding data sovereignty but some privacy experts are yet to be convinced by the move.…
Lees meerRussia's Google desperately seeking new energy deal after Finnish renewables supplier agreement terminated Finnish energy supplier Ilmatar says it has terminated a supplier agreement to provide electricity to Yandex's datacenter in the southern part…
Lees meerNew review system supposedly less of a headache for managers, staff Google is shifting to one performance review per annum for employees even though more than half of its workforce consider the current twice yearly appraisal system to be beneficial.…
Lees meerAin't that the tooth? VideaHealth, a dental AI startup spun out of MIT and Harvard, has received FDA approval in the US to commercialize its cavity-detection algorithm for clinical use. …
Lees meerGood thing no one's buying or selling stock from Twitter posts, right? Um, right? For years, Twitter posts and other online messages have been gathered and analyzed by financial algorithms in an effort to anticipate stock market movements. But, it t…
Lees meerMust ... cloudify ... internal .... apps, says giant as it continues to push modernization project BT, Britain's largest telecom biz, has signed a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help it cloudify internal applications and speed…
Lees meerCurrent arrangements may promote offshore workarounds and don't make life hard enough Sanctions on transfer of chipmaking tech to China might be driving more offshore chipmaking, and therefore failing to achieve strategic goals.…
Lees meerYou've won $2m! Now just send me a small fee A phishing operation compromised over one hundred UK National Health Service (NHS) employees' Microsoft Exchange email accounts for credential harvesting purposes, according to email security shop Inky.…
Lees meerDomestic action and international collaboration to make sure you-know-who – OK, China – doesn't get ahead of the game US president Joe Biden issued two directives on Wednesday aimed at ensuring the nation – and like-minded friends – remain ahead of …
Lees meerMIT folk tested the interest-based ad scheme to understand why it was discontinued Computer scientists from MIT Media Lab have exhumed the corpse of Google's FLoC ad targeting scheme and found that it lacked its key advertised ingredient: privacy.…
Lees meerInfosec outfit says group avoided detection by hiding payloads in undocumented Windows logs Infosec outfit Cybereason says it's discovered a multi-year – and very successful – Chinese effort to steal intellectual property.…
Lees meerCode locker has figured out it's a giant honeypot for miscreants planning supply chain attacks GitHub has announced that it will require two factor authentication for users who contribute code on its service.…
Lees meerFortinet kicks off new kit to handle the load Firewalls play a significant role in securing today's datacenters, but the technology must evolve if it's to remain relevant, Fortinet VP of product Nirav Shah told The Register.…
Lees meer'Hunt forward' operations push US capabilities across borders US Cyber Command chief General Paul Nakasone said has revealed the agency he leads conducted nine "hunt forward" operations last year, sending teams to different counties to help them imp…
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