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Apple's GoFetch silicon security fail was down to an obsession with speed
Opinion Apple is good at security. It's good at processors. Thus GoFetch, a major security flaw in its processor architecture, is a double whammy.…
Six banks share customer info to help Singapore fight money laundering
Asia in brief Singapore's Monetary Authority on Monday launched an application, intuitively named "COllaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/TF Information & Cases" (COSMIC for short, obviously) to target money laundering and terrorism financing.…
US House of Reps tells staff: No Microsoft Copilot for you!
Staff working at the US House Of Representatives have been barred from using Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and AI productivity tools, pending the launch of a version tailored to the needs of government users.…
Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source
Analysis The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had it not been caught by luck and atypical curiosity about latency from a Microsoft engineer.…
Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft
Infosec in brief Nearly a year on from the discovery of a massive data theft at healthcare biz Harvard Pilgrim, and the number of victims has now risen to nearly 2.9 million people in all US states.…
Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster
Interview Congress is mulling legislation that will require TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to cut ties with the video-sharing mega-app, or the social network will be banned in the USA.…
AT&T admits massive 70M+ mid-March customer data dump is real though old
AT&T confirmed over the weekend that more than 73 million records of its current and former customers dumped on the dark web in mid-March do indeed describe its subscribers, though it still denies the data came direct from its systems.…
Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams
Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are twice as productive using the language compared to C++.…