Oracle could control Arm chipmaker Ampere in 2027 • The Register
WEB3 days ago · Oracle could choose to take control of Ampere Computing, the Arm processor designer it has backed and uses in its cloud. A proxy statement [PDF] filed on Wednesday reveals that Oracle held 29 percent stake in Ampere as of May 31, 2024, and has the option to gain majority control over the chip house in 2027. "The total carrying value of our investments in Ampere, after accounting for losses ...
You paid the ransom, and now the decryptor doesn't work
WEBSep 11, 2024 · After paying the ransom in exchange for a decryptor to restore the encrypted files, the decryptor did not work. The Register did not talk to the victim organization in this case – its executives declined to be interviewed about their experience – so we don't know the specifics including sector, ransom demand, what files were locked up, etc.
Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time
WEBSep 16, 2024 · The COVID-19 work-from-home era is over, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told staff in a Monday memo, signaling his desire for staff to return to working in an office five days a week. The chief exec said the hybrid model of working partially at home and the rest in the office, which has been running for the past 15 months at the internet superpower ...
Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
WEBBrandon Vigliarolo. Wed 18 Sep 2024 // 21:59 UTC. Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. Google was fined the aforementioned amount by the European Commission in 2019 for ...
What to do in the age of the critical breach • The Register
WEBApr 25, 2024 · Why the triple threat of ransomware, data breaches, and extortion is a cybersecurity crisis. The UK government could be forgiven for wanting to forget March 2024 ever happened. MPs lambasted its response to attacks created by the cyber-espionage group APT31 as feeble, derisory, and "sadly insufficient". This …
Critical Linux bug is CUPS-based remote-code execution hole
WEB3 days ago · Thu 26 Sep 2024 // 17:34 UTC. Final update After days of anticipation, what was billed as one or more critical unauthenticated remote-code execution vulnerabilities in all Linux systems was today finally revealed. In short, if you're running the Unix printing system CUPS, with cups-browsed present and enabled, you may be vulnerable to attacks ...
Cybercrook leaks 20 GB of data 'stolen' from Capgemini
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Updated A miscreant claims to have broken into Capgemini and leaked a large amount of sensitive data stolen from the technology services giant – including source code, credentials, and T-Mobile's virtual machine logs.. The French multinational IT and consulting firm did not immediately respond to The Register's request for comment, and has yet to formally confirm or deny the cyber-criminal's ...
'Cybersecurity issue' blamed for MoneyGram's ongoing outage
WEB6 days ago · Mon 23 Sep 2024 // 21:32 UTC. A "cybersecurity issue" has shut down MoneyGram's systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running. The downed services reportedly include in …
Could eBPF have spared us the Crowdstrike incident?
WEB3 days ago · Wilkie is referring to an incident in June, where Red Hat warned its customers of an issue related to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor.The problem paled into insignificance compared to what happened to a few short weeks later, when a CrowdStrike update left 8.5 million Windows computers across the world stuck in a blue screen boot loop.. eBPF allows software to run in a virtual machine (VM) in the ...
Online media outstrips TV as source of news in UK - The Register
WEBWed 11 Sep 2024 // 08:31 UTC. TV has lost its crown as the most popular source of news in the UK, according to research from Ofcom. The telecoms and media regulator has found that online news sources are now more widely used than TV news, whose viewership saw a steep decline last year. However, for now the popularity of TV news remains only ...