Malware loader lowdown: The big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year [Tue Aug 29 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 29 August 2023 ***************************************************************** Malware loader lowdown: The big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year Top of the list to trip sensors ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Need a datacenter processor? Try our take-and-bake Neoverse N2 cores, says Arm Just bring your own accelerator * Intel promises next year's Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels Plus more insights on x86 titan's all E-core datacenter chips * Aerial cable tangles are still being strung up, but carriers are slowly burying the problem 'Sky spaghetti' remains on the menu for Asian carriers, and tourists * Polishing off a printer with a flourish revealed not to be best practice Tech's pride in his work fed a hungry mechanical monster Security * Health, payment info for 1.2M people feared stolen from Purfoods in IT attack Meal delivery biz leaves bitter taste * Malware loader lowdown: The big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year Top of the list to trip sensors * Whiffy malware stinks after tracking location via Wi-FI ALSO: Euro chip maker breached, crims plan to undermine cyber insurance, and this week's critical vulnerabilities * Taiwanese infosec researchers challenge Microsoft's China espionage finding PLUS: India calls for global action on AI and crypto; Vietnam seeks cybersecurity independence; China bans AI prescribing drugs Software * OpenTF forks Terraform, insists HashiCorp is the splinter group Dude, stop hitting yourself * Wordpress sells 100-year domain, hosting plan for $38K This assumes MySQL, PHP, the web – and humanity – will be around that long * Brain-computer interface and AI helps stroke victim speak through avatar ALSO: News publishers block OpenAI's text-crawling bot; YouTube does a deal for AI tunes Offbeat * Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city Not just a company town - it's the new feudal age * UK flights disrupted by 'technical issue' with air traffic computer system British Bank Holiday blues as flight plans have to be filed by hand * Foxconn founder Terry Gou to run for Taiwan's presidency Billionaire claims being a political outsider means he can fix border, avert wars, make Taiwan great again … which sounds rather familiar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: