2023

WormGPT and FraudGPT – The Rise of Malicious LLMs 08/08/2023 at 16:16 By As technology continues to evolve, there is a growing concern about the potential for large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, to be used for criminal purposes. In this blog we will discuss two such LLM engines that were made available recently on

Hackers Abusing Cloudflare Tunnels for Covert Communications 08/08/2023 at 16:01 By New research has revealed that threat actors are abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to establish covert communication channels from compromised hosts and retain persistent access. “Cloudflared is functionally very similar to ngrok,” Nic Finn, a senior threat intelligence analyst at GuidePoint Security, said. “However, Cloudflared differs

Norway to hit Meta with fines over Facebook user privacy from next week 08/08/2023 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson Book to hit face, but Zuckerberg & co tell El Reg it will challenge the ban Norway’s data protection authorities are to proceed with fines against Meta over privacy violations against its citizens, to the tune

Study: Higher education leaders see security as top priority 08/08/2023 at 15:20 By A new study found that top institutional leaders are increasingly focused on improving both physical and network security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA joins partners to warn of routinely exploited vulnerabilities    08/08/2023 at 15:20 By A joint advisory urges organizations to implement secure by design practices and prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities to reduce risk of compromise. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Utah schools granted $3M for AI gun protection technology 08/08/2023 at 15:20 By The Utah State Board of Education has granted a $3 million contract to distribute artificial intelligence gun detection to Utah schools. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Micron joins the CXL 2.0 party with a 256GB memory expander 08/08/2023 at 14:47 By Tobias Mann RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Micron has become the latest chipmaker to announce a compute express link (CXL) 2.0-compliant memory expansion module capable of strapping up to 256GB of DRAM to

China – which surveils everyone everywhere – floats facial recognition rules 08/08/2023 at 13:47 By Laura Dobberstein Regulator says with a straight face that it should not be allowed to analyze ethnicity China has released draft regulations to govern the country’s facial recognition technology that include prohibitions on its use to analyze race or ethnicity.…

Understanding Active Directory Attack Paths to Improve Security 08/08/2023 at 13:02 By Introduced in 1999, Microsoft Active Directory is the default identity and access management service in Windows networks, responsible for assigning and enforcing security policies for all network endpoints. With it, users can access various resources across networks. As things tend to do, times,

S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it’s in the clouds 08/08/2023 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart In 2020, global ERP giant SAP offered to provide “clarity and choice” on the future of its core platform, vital to the

New Yashma Ransomware Variant Targets Multiple English-Speaking Countries 08/08/2023 at 12:21 By An unknown threat actor is using a variant of the Yashma ransomware to target various entities in English-speaking countries, Bulgaria, China, and Vietnam at least since June 4, 2023. Cisco Talos, in a new write-up, attributed the operation with moderate confidence to an