August 2023

New Zealand supermarket’s recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level 11/08/2023 at 05:47 By Katyanna Quach Some of its suggestions are poison. Others – like banana and tomato tea – might as well be An AI recipe generation bot released by New Zealand discount supermarket chain Pak’nSave has raised eyebrows for recommending home

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Chinese web giants go on $5B Nvidia shopping spree to fuel AI ambitions 11/08/2023 at 04:47 By Tobias Mann In the ML arms race, GPUs are the ammunition China’s largest web and cloud providers are lining up to buy as many Nvidia GPUs as they can while they still can get their hands on them.…

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Infosec imposter syndrome is real. Here’s something that can help 11/08/2023 at 02:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Talk about an insider threat Black Hat  Imposter syndrome plagues people across all professions — including the cybersecurity industry — and it’s not going to get any better until individuals are willing to share their struggles and find

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CISA boss says US alliance with Ukraine over past year is closer than Five Eyes 11/08/2023 at 01:48 By Iain Thomson And America should stop worrying about balloons and focus on what’s important Black Hat  The head of the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has extolled the ongoing relationship between America and

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Don’t shoot! DARPA wants to capture future spy balloons in one piece 11/08/2023 at 00:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Being blasted with a missile and plummeting 60,000 feet can do a real number on hardware, it turns out DARPA wants to be ready the next time a foreign spy balloon does a tour of the US,

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Microsoft OneDrive a willing and eager ‘ransomware double agent’ 11/08/2023 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo No one will suspect such a trustworthy executable Black Hat  There’s a rather serious ransomware vulnerability in Microsoft’s desktop operating system, according to research out this week. It’s nigh undetectable, uses a fully legitimate workflow to encrypt files, and comes

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77% of financial firms saw an increase in cyberattack frequency 11/08/2023 at 00:01 By Cyberattacks against financial organizations were analyzed in a recent report, finding that 77% saw an increase in cyberattack frequency. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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There’s a good chance your VPN is vulnerable to privacy-menacing TunnelCrack attack 10/08/2023 at 23:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Especially on Apple gear, uni team says A couple of techniques collectively known as TunnelCrack can, in the right circumstances, be used by snoops to force victims’ network traffic to go outside their encrypted VPNs, it

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Viasat probe into ailing $700M satellite casts shadow over Q1 results 10/08/2023 at 23:47 By Dan Robinson ‘We understand the risks involved in space systems, and have insurance’ Satellite operator Viasat says problems with its first ViaSat-3 deployment have created unanticipated biz challenges that may disrupt commercial prospects in the short term.… This article is

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Epic snub by Supreme Court in battle to escape Apple App Store payment prison 10/08/2023 at 22:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo This fight over IAP is getting, dare we say, unreal Apple gets to maintain its App Store monopoly, at least for now, after the US Supreme Court rejected a bid from Epic Games to lift

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Microsoft 365 guest accounts + Power Apps = security nightmare 10/08/2023 at 21:36 By Brandon Vigliarolo A login, a PA trial license, and some good old hacking are all that’s needed to nab SQL databases Black Hat 2023  Microsoft 365 guest accounts aren’t nearly as secure as Redmond would lead customers to believe, as low-code

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President Biden signs security technology executive order 10/08/2023 at 21:35 By In an effort to protect sensitive technology, President Biden signed an executive order on regulating U.S. security technology investments. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Shifting to two-factor auth is hard to do, so GitHub recommends the long game 10/08/2023 at 20:18 By Iain Thomson Slow and steady wins this race Black Hat  Getting people to use multi-factor authentication is surprisingly tough – or unsurprisingly, depending on your opinion of IT users. In any case, GitHub is managing it by

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NASA to test potential 400Mbps laser link for Mars 10/08/2023 at 19:06 By Katyanna Quach High bandwidth comms experiment to fly with Psyche asteroid mission in October NASA hopes to launch a near-infrared laser transceiver to test a system that could one day be used to communicate with astronauts on Mars.… This article is an

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