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As badly as the later development of the player itself, really. Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts plot. Max validity down from 398 days to proposed 45 by 2027. One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as …
Twitter leak: 200m+ account database now free to download
Thu 5 Jan 2023 // 21:30 UTC. Updated More than 200 million Twitter users' information is now available for anyone to download for free. This latest data dump, which includes account names, handles, creation dates, follower counts, and email addresses, turns out to the be same — albeit cleaned up — leak reported last month that affected more ...
BT puts old phone books online - The Register
Nov 29, 2007 · BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538. The phone books date back to 1880 and contain 280 million names. They can be used to track down relatives, but you can also use the service to find ...
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SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, orders staff back to their desks for three days a week. Exclusive CEO tells The Reg customers are facing same challenges, not ruling out full-time RTO. Channel 12 hrs | 13.
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims - The Register
Sep 18, 2024 · Asked to confirm the layoffs, an IBM spokesperson told The Register, "Early this year, IBM disclosed a workforce rebalancing charge that would represent a very low single digit percentage of IBM’s global workforce, and we still expect to exit 2024 at roughly the same level of employment as we entered with.". IBM's first-quarter 2024 earnings report said that the …
Microsoft patches CVE-2024-38063 IPv6 RCE vulnerability
Aug 14, 2024 · Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks. Microsoft listed four vulnerabilities as publicly disclosed, albeit not yet exploited, so maybe put these high on your to-patch list: CVE-2024-38200 – a Microsoft Office Spoofing Vulnerability with a 6.5 CVSS rating. CVE-2024-38199 – a Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service RCE ...
FCC finally set to do something about SS7 vulnerabilities
Apr 2, 2024 · The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and monitor wireless devices. At issue are the Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) and Diameter protocols, which are used by fixed and mobile ...
Core Python developer suspended for three months - The Register
Aug 9, 2024 · The Python Steering Council has decided to suspend a core Python developer for three months for alleged Code of Conduct violations. Citing the recommendation of the Code of Conduct Working Group, Python developer Thomas Wouters revealed on behalf of the Steering Council that the unidentified developer was deemed to have repeatedly violated the Python …
Critical Linux bug is CUPS-based remote-code execution hole
Sep 26, 2024 · What you need to know for now, according to Margaritelli, is: Disable and/or remove the cups-browsed service. Update your CUPS installation to bring in security updates if or when available. Consider blocking access to UDP port 631, and blocking off DNS-SD, too. It affects "most" Linux distros, "some" BSDs, possibly Google ChromeOS, Oracle's ...
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