ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts

(2022/08/12)

Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins



FAANGs failing on keeping user data safe from bug hunters

(2022/08/12)

Black Hat Time to call in the legal team



FTC ponders proper punishment for commercial data 'surveillance' and shoddy security

(2022/08/12)

Got thoughts on the online panopticon? The FTC wants to hear



Higher risks and premiums are creating critical gap in cyber insurance

(2022/08/12)

Black Hat Most organizations don’t have the financial resources necessary to address ransomware and other cyberattacks, BlackBerry says



Security needs to learn from the aviation biz to avoid crashing

(2022/08/12)

Black Hat video 'Until someone has to go to jail for doing it wrong the teeth are not going to be the same'



Scientists unveil a physics-defying curved space robot

(2022/08/12)

It can move without anything to push off from, but only via curved spacetime



Russian invasion has dangerously destabilized cyber security norms

(2022/08/11)

Black Hat The inside scoop on the Ukrainian IT army, and what could happen next



AWS and Splunk partner for faster cyberattack response

(2022/08/11)

Black Hat OCSF initiative will give enterprise security teams an open standard for moving and analyzing threat data



Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

(2022/08/11)

Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters



Ex-CIA security boss predicts coming crackdown on spyware

(2022/08/11)

Black Hat video Plus, spoiler alert: ransomware is gonna get a lot worse



Sonatype spots another PyPI package behaving badly

(2022/08/11)

Identity of a real person was used to lend credence to a package that dropped cryptominer in memory



General Motors charging mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features

(2022/08/11)

Don't want the services? You'll still have to pay for them, activated or not



SmartNICs to make up 38% of network market by 2026

(2022/08/11)

Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure



Don't be surprised if your organization suffers multiple cyberattacks

(2022/08/11)

Black Hat Failing to fix flaws, a crowded threat group scene, RaaS, and dependencies among crooks are fueling the trend



Dealing with legacy issues around Red Hat crypto versions? Here's a fix

(2022/08/11)

RHEL SHA -ll speak unto RHEL… except from 9 to 6



There can be only one... Microsoft Excel Champion

(2022/08/11)

Welcome to the world of extreme modeling, techie style. How's your day going?



FCC rejects Starlink's bid for US rural internet access funds

(2022/08/11)

Even those within the agency puzzled by the SpaceX decision when 'we have the technology to improve lives now'



Four charged with tricking Qualcomm into buying $150m startup

(2022/08/11)

Updated Technically the chip giant already owned the tech due to real inventor’s contract, according to DoJ



Want the very latest Windows Insider Dev Channel build? Check your disk space

(2022/08/11)

You might need to free up 24GB. A bug for now, but might be sign of way things are going



Ex-Twitter staffer convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia

(2022/08/11)

Ahmad Abouammo is facing 10-20 years in prison for leaking PII from 6,000 Twitter accounts



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