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Anthropic’s Claude vulnerable to ’emotional manipulation’ 2024-10-12 at 13:32 By Thomas Claburn AI model safety only goes so far Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, despite its reputation as one of the better behaved generative AI models, can still be convinced to emit racist hate speech and malware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View…

FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation 2024-10-12 at 08:17 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with allegedly manipulating digital asset markets as part of a widespread fraud operation. The law enforcement action – codenamed Operation Token Mirrors –…

US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities 2024-10-12 at 06:21 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also, phishing’s easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more in brief  If you need an excuse to improve your patching habits, a joint advisory from the US and UK governments about a…

INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good 2024-10-12 at 02:03 By Connor Jones Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 believe the INC ransomware crew is no more and recently rebranded itself as Lynx over a three-month period.……

US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants 2024-10-12 at 00:33 By Jessica Lyons Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also urge federal regulators…

Ubuntu turns 20: ‘Oracular Oriole’ shows this old bird’s still got plenty of flight 2024-10-11 at 23:16 By Liam Proven The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability The first interim release of Ubuntu since the somewhat troubled Noble Numbat is a smooth upgrade – but not all of the new hotness is…

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can’t delete 2024-10-11 at 21:47 By Richard Speed When the ‘cleanup’ option stubbornly refuses Windows 11 24H2 users are finding there is undeletable data that remains on their devices after installing the recently released feature update.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original…

GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks 2024-10-11 at 21:07 By A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction…

GitHub, Telegram Bots, and QR Codes Abused in New Wave of Phishing Attacks 2024-10-11 at 21:05 By A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction…

Ukraine cyber cops collar man who hooked citizens up to Russian internet 2024-10-11 at 20:16 By Connor Jones ‘Self-taught hacker’ facing a possible 15 years in the slammer A 28-year-old Ukrainian is facing up to 15 years in prison for allegedly operating what the war-torn nation’s cyber police are calling an illegal VPN service that…

Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge 2024-10-11 at 18:46 By Dan Robinson Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain US energy companies must adapt to the AI-driven datacenter boom with power use forecast to outstrip supply within the next few years.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View…

Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script? 2024-10-11 at 17:17 By Thomas Claburn We’re sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar’s missive very warm and human Zoom Video Communications intends to offer office workers the ability to communicate with colleagues using an AI lookalike…

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares… 2024-10-11 at 16:16 By Liam Proven But what does that mean? Explainer  Apple’s latest OS release is the newest member of the Open Group list of officially verified UNIX variants – by quite some margin.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original…

Tesla’s big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly 2024-10-11 at 15:07 By Richard Speed WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab’s coming out party Complete with Back to The Future style folding doors, Tesla is showing off its Robotaxi at last, along with an autonomous minibus and the Optimus robot.… This article…

More than one-third of tech professionals report AI skills shortage 2024-10-11 at 15:06 By New research has found a skills gap in AI security skills.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

60% of organizations manually gather employee data 2024-10-11 at 15:06 By According to a recent Envoy report, shifting workplace dynamics such as hybrid work policies have led to outdated data management processes. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

RAC duo busted for stealing and selling crash victims’ data 2024-10-11 at 14:49 By Paul Kunert Roadside assistance biz praised for deploying security monitoring software and reporting workers to cops Two former workers at roadside assistance provider RAC were this week given suspended sentences after illegally copying and selling tens of thousands of lines of…

How Hybrid Password Attacks Work and How to Defend Against Them 2024-10-11 at 14:48 By Threat actors constantly change tactics to bypass cybersecurity measures, developing innovative methods to steal user credentials. Hybrid password attacks merge multiple cracking techniques to amplify their effectiveness. These combined approaches exploit the strengths of various methods, accelerating the password-cracking process. …

Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig 2024-10-11 at 14:18 By Connor Jones What’s harder? Convincing people to invest in a beleaguered security business or a tiny island everybody hates? Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Poppy Gustafsson as the UK’s new investment minister is being resoundingly praised despite the former Darktrace boss spending years…

Is the first European on the Moon in ESA’s astronaut corps? 2024-10-11 at 12:47 By Richard Speed Director General on being a good partner and developing rockets Interview  The European Space Agency (ESA) had to use a SpaceX rocket to send its Hera spacecraft to Dimorphos. After the delays of the Ariane 6, what will…

CISA Warns of Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP Cookies for Network Reconnaissance 2024-10-11 at 12:30 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that it has observed threat actors leveraging unencrypted persistent cookies managed by the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) module to conduct reconnaissance of target networks. It said the…

New Critical GitLab Vulnerability Could Allow Arbitrary CI/CD Pipeline Execution 2024-10-11 at 10:31 By GitLab has released security updates for Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address eight security flaws, including a critical bug that could allow running Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on arbitrary branches. Tracked as CVE-2024-9164, the vulnerability…

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps 2024-10-11 at 09:32 By Laura Dobberstein Scientists undecided about possible flavor After observing Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) with the Hubble Space Telescope for 90 days, scientists have determined that it behaves like a “bowl of gelatin.”… This article is an excerpt from The…

Bohemia and Cannabia Dark Web Markets Taken Down After Joint Police Operation 2024-10-11 at 09:32 By The Dutch police have announced the takedown of Bohemia and Cannabia, which has been described as the world’s largest and longest-running dark web market for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. The takedown is the result of a collaborative…

FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused 2024-10-11 at 08:31 By Simon Sharwood It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week The FBI created its own cryptocurrency so it could watch suspected fraudsters use it – an idea that worked so well it…

Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models 2024-10-11 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with ‘X-Stor’ Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it created a NoSQL database that it believes can handle multiple data models more elegantly than other attempts to do so, and has used…

Has “Thought Leadership” Lost Its Luster? 2024-10-11 at 07:16 By What it means to be a thought leader in the security industry. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Emerging security career challenges 2024-10-11 at 07:16 By Understanding customers, suppliers and the candidate pool will affect the success of organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India’s Star Health 2024-10-11 at 06:02 By Laura Dobberstein Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online Leading Indian health insurance provider Star Health has admitted to being the victim of a cyber attack after criminals claimed they had posted records of 30-milion-plus…

Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse 2024-10-11 at 04:02 By Iain Thomson It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly Robot hands are commonplace, but their sense of touch is crude compared to that of a human. A design proposed by a group of scientists…

Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse 2024-10-11 at 02:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Up to $100 for planning to vote and a public smear – how is this not illegal? The troublemakers behind the party game Cards Against Humanity have launched a campaign demonstrating how easy it is to buy sensitive…

Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers 2024-10-11 at 00:47 By Jessica Lyons But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse Fidelity Investments has notified 77,099 people that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach. … This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source…

GSA plows ahead with face matching tech despite its own reliability concerns 2024-10-11 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo A week after saying remote ID verification tech is unreliable, the GSA is expanding access to other agencies The US government’s General Services Administration’s (GSA) facial matching login service is now generally available to the public and…

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact ‘mitigated’ 2024-10-10 at 23:01 By Iain Thomson Users just need to ‘refresh/restart’ their sessions Microsoft’s Outlook app is crashing for European users due to memory problems, Redmond has warned, and evidence suggests the problems are spreading to the US.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original…

BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham 2024-10-10 at 22:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo We’d know if it were true, and our reporters are just fine Those who rely on the BBC’s online weather forecasts to plan their day would be forgiven if they woke up this morning and thought the…

AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut 2024-10-10 at 21:16 By Tobias Mann Just not on the same chip, of course Intel’s 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired back with a family of fifth-gen Epycs that boast double-digit IPC…