January 2024

Zero-Day Alert: Update Chrome Now to Fix New Actively Exploited Vulnerability 2024-01-17 at 05:01 By Google on Tuesday released updates to fix four security issues in its Chrome browser, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-0519, concerns an out-of-bounds memory access in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, which can be […]

FBI: Beware of thieves building Androxgh0st botnets using stolen creds 2024-01-17 at 03:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Infecting networks via years-old CVEs that should have been patched by now Crooks are exploiting years-old vulnerabilities to deploy Androxgh0st malware and build a cloud-credential stealing botnet, according to the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement 2024-01-17 at 03:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Video game record keepers Twin Galaxies finish messy four-year fight with Billy Mitchell Retro Tech Week  The world-beating video game scores of self-styled arcade legend Billy Mitchell have been reinstated following a settlement with record-keeping org Twin

Pentagon using ChatGPT? Oh sure, for cyber-things and veterans, says OpenAI 2024-01-17 at 00:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Just days after ban on ‘military and warfare’ applications goes away, Davos hears the details OpenAI is developing AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities for the US military, and shifting its election security work into high gear, the lab’s execs

How ‘sleeper agent’ AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing 2024-01-16 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Today’s safety guardrails won’t catch these backdoors, study warns Analysis  AI biz Anthropic has published research showing that large language models (LLMs) can be subverted in a way that safety training doesn’t currently address.… This article is

Google AI chatbot more empathetic than real doctors in test 2024-01-16 at 22:47 By Katyanna Quach No, that does not mean machines can replace primary care physicians An AI chatbot was better at diagnosing medical ailments and communicating results than human physicians in text-based conversations, a research paper from Google claims. … This article is an

JPMorgan latest to pile into quantum upstart with $5B valuation 2024-01-16 at 22:17 By Tobias Mann Banking giant believes Quantinuum key to optimizing investment portfolios The wave of generative AI may have captured the world’s attention, but that hasn’t stopped the flow of capital into quantum computing as JPMorgan Chase and others plow more cash

US Supreme Court rejects Apple v. Epic appeals to free in-app payments in-payment 2024-01-16 at 21:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo With no more courts left to beg, Apple’s anti-steering provision is as good as dead iOS app users can now get a choice of in-app payment systems rather than having to work through Apple. The US

68% of IT workers feel overwhelmed with data access restrictions 2024-01-16 at 20:47 By A report found that 68% of IT workers feel overwhelmed by the number of technical resources that are required to access the data they need to work. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

Double trouble for VMware and Atlassian admins – critical flaws to fix 2024-01-16 at 20:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle You didn’t have anything else to do this Tuesday, right? VMware and Atlassian today disclosed critical vulnerabilities and, while neither appear to have been exploited by miscreants yet, admins should patch now to avoid disappointment.… This

The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop 2024-01-16 at 19:36 By Dan Robinson Makes sense since the global market fell 11% in 2023 China’s imports of semiconductors and integrated circuits were hit by their largest ever drop last year, although chips are said to remain the country’s biggest import item.…

More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs 2024-01-16 at 19:17 By Connor Jones Majority of public-facing devices still unpatched against critical vulns from as far back as 2022 More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are still vulnerable to years-old vulnerabilities, an infosec reseacher claims.… This article is an excerpt from

John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal 2024-01-16 at 18:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo SpaceX gets chance to prove the FCC was wrong for rejecting its $885m rural broadband subsidy bid Farm equipment maker John Deere has signed a deal with SpaceX to use its Starlink satellite internet service to keep combines and other

Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS 2024-01-16 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Unlikely to be a stop-the-slurpage button, but look at the wallpaper A visualization of what Windows 12 – or whatever Microsoft decides to call its upcoming OS – might look like has arrived, and it is

Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time 2024-01-16 at 17:47 By Paul Kunert Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China Apple’s iPhone is the frontrunner in the global smartphone market for the first time after demand finally returned to a sector