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)

Re-volting: AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization undone by electrical attack

(2021/08/13)

Fault injection technique presents risk in cloud environments from rogue admins



China stops networked vehicle data going offshore under new infosec rules

(2021/08/13)

Hands-off driving detectors required, over-the-air updates to be strictly regulated



Perhaps regretting those Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions, UK watchdog suggests Facebook offloads GIF haven Giphy

(2021/08/13)

BTW is that pronounced Jiffy or?



FISMA's a fizzer, says Cisco, and calls on Congress to get cyber security policy right – pronto

(2021/08/13)

Organizational structure, piecemeal approach and hiring practices all need to change, says Borg security bigwig



Alibaba to offer self-defense training in response to sexual assault allegation

(2021/08/13)

Pledges to 'strengthen organizational guardrails' with raft of new policy and training initiatives



Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz

(2021/08/13)

Allegations of purloined trade secrets, unfair competition, national security threats, and more packed into lawsuit



Facebook now says it won't recall staff to its offices until 2022 due to delta variant

(2021/08/13)

It's the Social distancing Network™



GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication

(2021/08/13)

Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more



NASA blames the wrong kind of Martian rock for Perseverance sample failure

(2021/08/12)

Not a hardware or software bug, for a change



US govt scores a point against Assange in run-up to extradition appeal showdown

(2021/08/12)

Judge wrong to prevent Uncle Sam from challenging psychiatrist's suicide risk report, says High Court



Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more

(2021/08/12)

Project said to be well resourced, lots of tweaks in new version, plenty more to do



Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40

(2021/08/12)

5150: Not just a medical emergency, also the beginning of the office brick



Think your backups will protect you against ransomware? They’re top of the target list

(2021/08/12)

Zoom in on zero trust by tuning in and finding out



Workday makes Google preferred partner for public cloud weeks after demise of Amazon project revealed

(2021/08/12)

SaaSy HR firm gets around a bit



Lockbit ransomware attack didn't affect ops, claims Accenture amid lurid payoff rumours

(2021/08/12)

No word on whether gang got their mitts on data, though



After 15 months in preview, GitHub releases Codespaces – probably the fanciest new shiny since Actions

(2021/08/12)

Teams and Enterprise only for now



Where's the nearest exit? ServiceNow continues on acquisition spree with interior mapping startup Mapwize

(2021/08/12)

PostgreSQL acceleration outfit Swarm64 also nabbed



Taiwan president pokes the bear by saying the nation needs to lessen its supply chain dependency on China

(2021/08/12)

Tsai Ing-wen also expressed desire to attract external tech talent in rare interview



Elementary OS 6 Odin released on a 'pay what you want' basis

(2021/08/12)

Principled Linux distro with curated apps, but spartan install may flummox newbies



COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free

(2021/08/12)

Vaccine deceit is infectious



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