It's official: BlackLotus malware can bypass Secure Boot on Windows machines [Thu Mar 2 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 2 March 2023 ***************************************************************** It's official: BlackLotus malware can bypass Secure Boot on Windows machines The myth 'is now a reality' ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push On-Prem * White House ban on US chip cash going into China ruffles South Koreans Pretty awkward for Samsung, SK Hynix and their Middle Kingdom fabs * SambaNova’s AI paired with Fugaku supercomputer to develop 'digital twins' All part of the Japan's Society 5.0 project * Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy No more dog whistles or empty threats for caustic tweeps, but what does it matter if no one can post? * PC price promos, flaky economy halve HP profits Job cutting plan expected to ease pressures later this year * Bosses failing to offer hybrid work lose out in recruitment Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm * UK antitrust watchdog provisionally clears Viasat's $7.3B buy of Inmarsat Entrance of SpaceX and others into airline Wi-Fi eases worries. Next stop: US and EU regulators * Bringing the IBM Thinkpad 'Butterfly' back to life Framework offers refurb kit and parts – for instance, to upgrade a decades-old subnotebook * Europe trims Apple App Store probe after deciding in-app payments not a problem Cupertino not entirely off the hook – yet * Apple's outsourced Lightning cable plant in India goes up in flames Local officials say fire suppression equipment wasn't operational * IBM teases AI-infused hybrid cloudy upgrade to z/OS - Bingo! Mainframes dating back to 2017 can run forthcoming OS, which has something for everyone – even COBOL coders Security * It's official: BlackLotus malware can bypass Secure Boot on Windows machines The myth 'is now a reality' * PlugX RAT masquerades as legit Windows debugger to slip past security DLL side-loading does the trick, again * Google: You get crypto, you get crypto, almost everyone gets email crypto! Personal Gmail users still out of luck Software * Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles without killing anyone It works! Now let's cut staff by 8% * Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI If you're using ExplorerPatcher or StartAllBack, this is why your computer won't start * 'Major' news: Microsoft slips Bing chatbot shortcut into Windows 11 Celebrated, unhinged search tool pushed in latest OS update * Fedora 38 will still support framebuffer X11 and NIS+ Next version of Red Hat's bleeding-edge distro won't drop all the older tech it had hoped to * Teradata chases hyperscaler, SI partnerships in cloud push We're not just your grandmother's data warehouse, CEO tells El Reg * Assume the superposition: Intel emits SDK to simulate quantum computers 32 virtual qubits are yours to manipulate with classical C or Python code Offbeat * FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab Latest claim comes days after Dept of Energy waved finger in China's direction * Double trouble for NASA with two spacecraft on the fritz Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start * Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins * If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems * China blocked 54.3 million items online in 2022, after snitches sent 170 million tips Regulator warns it's far from finished and the deletions will continue until morale improves ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: