Google invests in cable connecting Australia and Africa – Telco/ISP
Google is set to build a new subsea cable that connects Perth to several African countries, the first direct route between Australia and Africa. The…
Month: May 2024
British tech founder Mike Lynch denies defrauding HP – Software
Mike Lynch, the tech founder once hailed as Britain’s answer to Steve Jobs, denied wrongdoing at his fraud trial in connection with Hewlett-Packard’s disastrous US$11…
Computershare migrates 24,000 VMs onto Nutanix – Cloud – Hardware
Australia’s Computershare has migrated 24,000 virtual machines in less than a year onto Nutanix AHV. Nutanix Next Speaking during a panel session at Nutanix’s Next…
JAVS courtroom recording software backdoored in supply chain attack
Attackers have backdoored the installer of widely used Justice AV Solutions (JAVS) courtroom video recording software with malware that lets them take over compromised systems. The…
iTnews launches its inaugural Data Forum – Hardware – Storage
iTnews is joining its sister publications CRN and Digital Nation in the launch of a new ‘State of Data’ report at a special Data Forum…
Microsoft spots gift card thieves using cyber-espionage tactics
Microsoft has published a “Cyber Signals” report sharing new information about the hacking group Storm-0539 and a sharp rise in gift card theft as we approach…
CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apache Flink Security Vulnerability
May 23, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability, The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, the open-source,…
High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts
GitLab patched a high-severity vulnerability that unauthenticated attackers could exploit to take over user accounts in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2024-4835)…
He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark-Web Drug Market
The message explained that Incognito was now essentially blackmailing its former users: It had stored their messages and transaction records, it said, and added that…
WhatsApp Engineers Fear Encryption Flaw Exposes User Data, Memo
Think your private WhatsApp messages are truly private? A recent internal warning on WhatsApp suggests otherwise. Despite end-to-end encryption, a newly discovered vulnerability could allow…
Ransomware Attacks Exploit VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities in Alarming Pattern
May 23, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Virtualization Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi infrastructure following an established pattern regardless of the file-encrypting malware deployed. “Virtualization platforms are a…
Government was aware of Post Office strategy to fight subpostmasters
The government was aware of the Post Office’s decision to call on the judge to remove himself from its High Court battle with subpostmasters, Paula…