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)

Emotet malware gang re-emerges with Chrome-based credit card heistware

(2022/06/10)

Crimeware groups are re-inventing themselves



Warning: Colleagues are unusually likely to 'break' their monitors soon

(2022/06/10)

Wave of replacements needed as Samsung and Microsoft team to stream Xbox games to smart displays and tellies



Chinese 'Aoqin Dragon' gang runs undetected ten-year espionage spree

(2022/06/10)

Researcher spots it targeting Asian government and telco targets, probably with Beijing's approval



Hardware flaws give Bluetooth chipsets unique fingerprints that can be tracked

(2022/06/10)

While this poses a privacy and security threat, an attacker's ability to exploit it may come down to luck



Russia, China warn US its cyber support of Ukraine has consequences

(2022/06/10)

Countries that accept US infosec help told they could pay a price too



AMD touts big datacenter, AI ambitions in CPU-GPU roadmap

(2022/06/10)

Epyc future ahead, along with Instinct, Ryzen, Radeon and custom chip push



What keeps Mandiant Intelligence EVP Sandra Joyce up at night? The coming storm

(2022/06/10)

RSA Conference The next wave of security maturity is measuring effectiveness, she told The Register



AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads

(2022/06/10)

Buyer beware, say analysts, technical debt will catch up with you eventually



Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360

(2022/06/10)

Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens



Cloud services proving handy for cybercriminals, SANS Institute warns

(2022/06/09)

RSA Conference Flying horses, gonna pwn me away...



NHTSA upgrades Tesla Autopilot probe, could lead to recall

(2022/06/09)

Up for debate is whether Autopilot, or humans behaving badly, is the reason for Tesla's iffy safety record



Apple gets lawsuit over Meltdown and Spectre dismissed

(2022/06/09)

Judge finds security is not a central feature of iDevices



Apple offers improved Linux support in macOS Ventura

(2022/06/09)

Penguin fans will be able to use Rosetta 2 to run x86 binaries in forthcoming update



Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man

(2022/06/09)

Parents claim Chinese retailer is liable for their son's tragic death



Intel freezes hiring for PC chip team, cites 'macroeconomic uncertainty'

(2022/06/09)

Inflation, Apple M2, PC market shrink: Could the timing have been worse?



Facebook phishing campaign nets millions in IDs and cash

(2022/06/09)

Hundreds of millions of stolen credentials and a cool $59 million



Dell unveils new XPS 13 devices with Alder Lake CPUs

(2022/06/09)

Best hedge against a slowing PC market? Take some design tips from Apple



Semiconductor industry growth to slow in 2022, warns IDC

(2022/06/09)

Chip price hikes keeping sector healthy but new fabs could lead to 'overcapacity'



Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope

(2022/06/09)

Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried



PC shipments sink amid steady waves of supply chain, war disruptions

(2022/06/09)

320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now



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