October 2023

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing a fine job with surveillance

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing a fine job with surveillance 13/10/2023 at 09:17 By Laura Dobberstein They know they’re being watched and don’t mind – maybe because Beijing says it improves safety Chinese residents are generally comfortable with widespread use of surveillance technology, according to a year-long project conducted by the Australian Strategic […]

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Voyager Digital was ‘no better than a house of cards’ — CFTC commissioner

Voyager Digital was ‘no better than a house of cards’ — CFTC commissioner 13/10/2023 at 09:02 By Cointelegraph By Brayden Lindrea CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson’s comments came after separate lawsuits from the CFTC and FTC were filed against Voyager and its former CEO Stephen Ehrlich. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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Terraform Labs contends Citadel Securities had a hand in its stablecoin collapse

Terraform Labs contends Citadel Securities had a hand in its stablecoin collapse 13/10/2023 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph By Martin Young Terraform Labs has urged the judge to grant its motion to compel trading data from Citadel Securities, which it says had a hand in the collapse of USTC in May 2022. This article is an

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New infosec products of the week: October 13, 2023

New infosec products of the week: October 13, 2023 13/10/2023 at 07:46 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Appdome, Flexxon, Fortanix, Fortinet, SailPoint, and Vanta. Flexxon Xsign protects sensitive data reserved only for authorized personnel With the use of the Xsign hardware

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Nutanix, Cisco, say buyers will get the best of them both

Nutanix, Cisco, say buyers will get the best of them both 13/10/2023 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood There’s enough overlap that the deal works already. Next: cloud networks and maybe a storage push Cisco is now Nutanix’s closest hardware partner, meaning integration of the hyperconverged upstart’s stack and Cisco’s UCS servers will be stronger, sooner,

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Quantum risk is real now: How to navigate the evolving data harvesting threat

Quantum risk is real now: How to navigate the evolving data harvesting threat 13/10/2023 at 07:32 By Help Net Security In an era where data security is paramount, the recent revelations about firmware backdoors implanted by Chinese government-backed hackers serve as a stark reminder of the evolving threat landscape. BlackTech is infiltrating routers to gain

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Stronger ransomware protection finally pays off

Stronger ransomware protection finally pays off 13/10/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security 60% of companies are ‘very’ to ‘extremely’ concerned about ransomware attacks, according to latest research from Hornetsecurity. Businesses acknowledge ransomware risk Hornetsecurity revealed that 92.5% businesses are aware of ransomware’s potential for negative impact. Still, just 54% of respondents said their leadership

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Introducing the book: Irreducibly Complex Systems

Introducing the book: Irreducibly Complex Systems 13/10/2023 at 06:32 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video interview, David Hunt, CTO at Prelude, discusses his book – Irreducibly Complex Systems: An Introduction to Continuous Security Testing. Continuous security testing (CST) is a new strategy for validating cyber defenses. We buy security products that

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US Space Force pauses use of ChatGPT-like tools due to security fears: Report

US Space Force pauses use of ChatGPT-like tools due to security fears: Report 13/10/2023 at 06:03 By Cointelegraph By Brayden Lindrea At least 500 Space Force staff members have been affected, according to the department’s former chief software officer. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Atlassian buys ‘asynchronous video’ outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Atlassian buys ‘asynchronous video’ outfit Loom for almost $1 billion 13/10/2023 at 06:03 By Simon Sharwood Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation Atlassian has announced the acquisition of asynchronous video outfit Loom, for $975m.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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AI-enabled bots can solve CAPTCHAs faster than humans

AI-enabled bots can solve CAPTCHAs faster than humans 13/10/2023 at 06:02 By Help Net Security Companies are losing revenue in the fight against malicious bot attacks, according to survey by Kasada. Despite spending millions of dollars on traditional bot management solutions, companies are still financially impacted by bot attacks. 38% of respondents estimate that a

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Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December

Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December 13/10/2023 at 05:32 By Simon Sharwood Vice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas Chip designer Qualcomm has revealed it intends to shed over 1,000 California-based employees, delivering on previously foreshadowed plans to address its economic woes.… This article

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US senators draft NO FAKES bill to ban unauthorized AI copycats

US senators draft NO FAKES bill to ban unauthorized AI copycats 13/10/2023 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph By Jesse Coghlan The proposed act came just hours after talks broke down between actors and Hollywood studios, with AI replicas a major friction point in negotiations. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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DOJ charges exec over ‘cherry picking’ scheme involving crypto futures

DOJ charges exec over ‘cherry picking’ scheme involving crypto futures 13/10/2023 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph By Tom Mitchelhill The former CEO of Systematic Alpha Management faces up to five years in prison for his role in a fraudulent scheme tied to crypto futures contracts. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz

Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz 13/10/2023 at 04:47 By Tobias Mann Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging A mystery US company has tapped Samsung to fabricate datacenter chips using its 3nm manufacturing process.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Squid games: 35 security holes still unpatched in proxy after 2 years, now public

Squid games: 35 security holes still unpatched in proxy after 2 years, now public 13/10/2023 at 03:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle We’d like to say don’t panic … but maybe? 35 vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy remain unfixed more than two years after being found and disclosed to the open source project’s maintainers, according

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US venture capitalist spending continues to slide, hits six year low in Q3

US venture capitalist spending continues to slide, hits six year low in Q3 13/10/2023 at 02:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Looking for a bright spot? Well, it’s easier to beg the Feds for cash now, say researchers Hopes that the venture capital market would recover in the latter half of 2023 can be considered well and

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