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New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau - the nation's signals intelligence and infosec agency - will retire its Waihopai satellite communications interception station because it's no longer needed. "The nature of telecommunications has changed, and other needs and capabilities have overtaken the sort of satellite communication interception that has been done at Waihopai," said Andrew Little, the minister responsible for the GCSB. "The GCSB's own statement on the matter reads"Changes in global telecommunications and information technology mean the interception of satellite communications from Waihopai has declined over the years to the point where dish use is now virtually obsolete.
The vulnerability was discovered by a group of academics from ETH Zurich, the National University of Singapore, and the Chinese National University of Defense Technology in early May 2021, who used it to stage a confidential data disclosure attack called "SmashEx" that can corrupt private data housed in the enclave and break its integrity. Introduced with Intel's Skylake processors, SGX allows developers to run selected application modules in a completely isolated secure compartment of memory, called an enclave or a Trusted Execution Environment, which is designed to be protected from processes running at higher privilege levels like the operating system.
Right after officially releasing Windows 11, Microsoft has added three know issues to the Windows 11 12H2 release health dashboard. Microsoft has released Windows 11 worldwide yesterday and is now rolling it out via Windows Update to new Windows 10 devices and those pre-loaded with Windows 11.
The U.S. government has entered a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with three former intelligence operatives to resolve criminal charges relating to their offering of hacking services to a foreign government. "These services included the provision of support, direction and supervision in the creation of sophisticated"Zero-click" computer hacking and intelligence gathering systems - i.e., one that could compromise a device without any action by the target" - the U.S. Department of Justice.
Three former US intelligence and military operatives broke America's weapons export and computer security laws by, among other things, helping the United Arab Emirates hijack and siphon data from people's iPhones, it emerged on Tuesday. US citizens Marc Baier, 49, and Ryan Adams, 34, and ex-citizen Daniel Gericke, 40, were charged [PDF] with using "Illicit, fraudulent, and criminal means, including the use of advanced covert hacking systems that utilized computer exploits obtained from the United States and elsewhere, to gain unauthorized access to protected computers in the United States and elsewhere and to illicitly obtain information ... from victims from around the world."
Microsoft announced today that after investigating other potentially compatible processors for Windows 11, they only found one 7th generation Intel CPU to be compatible, and no first generation AMD Zen CPUs. With the new TPM 2.0 requirement and a restricted list of compatible CPUs, many people found that their devices with Intel 7th generation and first generation AMD Zen CPUs, which run Windows 10 flawlessly, can no longer upgrade to Windows 11.
Microsoft announced today that after investigating other potentially compatible processors for Windows 11, they only found one 7th generation Intel CPU to be compatible, and no AMD Zen CPUs. With the new TPM 2.0 requirement and a restricted list of compatible CPUs, many people found that their devices with Intel 7th generation and AMD Zen CPUs, which run Windows 10 flawlessly, cab no longer upgrade to Windows 11.
A malware developer unleashed their creation on their system to try out new features and the data ended up on a cybercrime intelligence platform, exposing a glimpse of the cybercriminal endeavor. The threat actor is the developer of Raccoon, an information stealer that can collect data from dozens of applications and has been growing in popularity for the past two years.
Intel announced the appointment of Christy Pambianchi as executive vice president and chief people officer, effective Sept. 7. Pambianchi will head the Human Resources organization with a mandate to attract, engage and retain the best talent as Intel strengthens execution and innovation to accelerate its transformation.
Intel on Tuesday released six new security advisories to inform customers about the availability of firmware and software updates that address a total of 15 vulnerabilities across several products. Two of the advisories have been assigned a high severity rating.