July 2023

Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency 11/07/2023 at 04:03 By Thomas Claburn How open-source tech can be quietly manipulated to mess up apps French outfit Mithril Security has managed to poison a large language model (LLM) and have made it available to developers to prove a

Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama 11/07/2023 at 00:49 By Thomas Claburn Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses Oracle claims IBM is trying to kill open source competition among Linux distributions to boost its bottom line, and has pledged to keep distributing Oracle Linux

Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments 10/07/2023 at 23:47 By Tobias Mann Relax, says chip giant, it’s an easy fix Anyone running Intel’s 4th-Gen Xeon Scalable processors should be on the lookout for a firmware update to address the issue that briefly forced the x86 giant to halt shipments of mid-core-count chips.… This

TSA predicts more intercepted firearms as travel increases 10/07/2023 at 23:47 By As of June 30, the Transportation Security Administration has intercepted 3,251 firearms at various security checkpoints, an increase from 2022. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

University of Richmond receives ‘Stop the Bleed’ grant 10/07/2023 at 22:17 By The University of Richmond (UR) has received funding to expand campus safety. UR’s public safety team will deploy the “Stop the Bleed” program. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Fedora Project mulls ‘privacy-respecting’ usage telemetry 10/07/2023 at 22:02 By Liam Proven Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn’t alienated enough people recently The Fedora Project is considering a proposal to introduce some limited usage telemetry in a future release. Predictably, quite a few users are not delighted with this development.… This article is an excerpt

GenAI will amplify cybersecurity threats, but there’s hope 10/07/2023 at 20:47 By Whether firms adopt generative AI (GenAI) or not, hackers and security researchers are already exploring how it could be abused to attack anyone. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Starlink satellites leaking astronomy-disturbing EM radiation, say boffins 10/07/2023 at 20:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo The light pollution problem is so 2022 Nevermind the light pollution – the ever-growing swarm of Starlink satellites orbiting Earth are creating a fresh unknown problem for astronomers: They’re leaking electromagnetic radiation. … This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk 10/07/2023 at 19:34 By Jude Karabus X Corp boss invokes spirit of ‘Cops arrest man for burning Burning Man man’ Elon Musk is suing the lawyers who were representing Twitter when it sued him for trying to abandon his $44 billion takeover offer

Microsoft’s Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm 10/07/2023 at 18:33 By Dan Robinson Network issues caused by nature’s hilarious prank A freak summer storm in the Netherlands is being blamed for causing network issues in Microsoft’s Azure West Europe region last week, according to a preliminary post-incident review by the company.…

Cybersecurity researchers identify new ShadowVault malware 10/07/2023 at 18:32 By A new malware has been identified by Guardz. The malware known as ‘ShadowVault’ is capable of stealing sensitive data from macOS-based devices. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $64,000 vinyl turntable 10/07/2023 at 17:48 By Richard Currie Ive got a bad feeling about this There must have been a time when Apple thought that anything Sir Jony Ive touched turned to gold. Now luxury hi-fi manufacturer Linn will be hoping the same – with a