Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation 2024-02-14 at 09:01 By Tobias Mann Of course it’s bristling with Noctuas – how else do you cool a 1kW desktop? Nvidia’s long-teased GH200 CPU-GPU Superchips are finally going on sale, and the 1,000-Watt chip – built to run in servers and handle hefty AI […]
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We can’t risk losing staff to alert fatigue 2024-02-14 at 08:32 By Help Net Security The oft-quoted Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu famously claimed: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Exchange “battles” for “cyberattacks”, and the maxim will hold. But too much information
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Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant 2024-02-14 at 08:18 By Simon Sharwood Reckons OpenAI and Google are mere infrastructure players who don’t understand apps or how AI will change them Airbnb sees AI as its ticket out of the travel industry ghetto, and a passport to expanding its
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Rise in cyberwarfare tactics fueled by geopolitical tensions 2024-02-14 at 08:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Matt Shelton, Head of Threat Research and Analysis at Google Cloud, discusses the latest Threat Horizons Report, which provides intelligence-derived trends, expertise, and recommendations on threat actors to help inform cloud customer security strategies in
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Microsoft Rolls Out Patches for 73 Flaws, Including 2 Windows Zero-Days 2024-02-14 at 07:50 By Microsoft has released patches to address 73 security flaws spanning its software lineup as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for February 2024, including two zero-days that have come under active exploitation. Of the 73 vulnerabilities, 5 are rated Critical, 65 are
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Fabric: Open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI 2024-02-14 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz Fabric is an open-source framework, created to enable users to granularly apply AI to everyday challenges. Key features “I created it to enable humans to easily augment themselves with AI. I believe it’s currently too difficult for people to use AI.
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Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam 2024-02-14 at 07:01 By Simon Sharwood $1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds One hundred and fifty people who worked for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have been investigated – and some prosecuted
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How to take control of personal data 2024-02-14 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Cybercriminals increasingly use open-source intelligence (OSINT) to craft convincing backstories, often by mining social media profiles for details on a target’s profession, interests, and routines. Armed with these personal insights, these malicious actors leverage chatbots to compose highly persuasive messages. Additionally,
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Cybercriminals get productivity boost with AI 2024-02-14 at 06:31 By Help Net Security While AI technology has the potential to streamline and automate processes for beneficial outcomes, it also comes with an equal number of risks to data protection, cybersecurity, and other ethical concerns, according to iProov. Digital ecosystems continue to grow and multiply at
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Tech Companies Plan to Sign Accord to Combat AI-Generated Election Trickery 2024-02-14 at 06:16 By Associated Press Major technology companies are planning to sign an agreement this week that would guide how they try to put a stop to the use of AI tools to disrupt democratic elections. The post Tech Companies Plan to Sign
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Threat actors intensify focus on NATO member states 2024-02-14 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Initial access brokers (IABs) are increasingly targeting entities within NATO member states, indicating a persistent and geographically diverse cyberthreat landscape, according to Flare. IABs infiltrate systems and gain unauthorized access through various techniques, including spear-phishing, exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities, and leveraging
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Judge bins authors’ copyright claim against OpenAI 2024-02-14 at 05:01 By Katyanna Quach Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, will need to try again on infringement A US judge has dismissed some of the claims made by writers in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, though gave the wordsmiths another chance to amend
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Crims found and exploited these two Microsoft bugs before Redmond fixed ’em 2024-02-14 at 04:02 By Jessica Lyons SAP, Adobe, Intel, AMD also issue fixes as well as Google for Android Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 73 security holes in this February’s Patch Tuesday, and you better get moving because two of the vulnerabilities are under
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The most 2024 things to do are laying off staff and eyeing up AI – Mozilla’s doing both 2024-02-14 at 03:01 By Simon Sharwood Firefox Mobile also getting increased attention Firefox maker Mozilla has laid off “approximately 60” staff, or around five percent of its workforce.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View
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Just one bad DNS packet can bring down a public DNSSEC server 2024-02-14 at 01:31 By Thomas Claburn ‘You don’t have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network’ El Reg told as patches emerge A 20-plus-year-old security vulnerability in the design of DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) could allow a single
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US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI 2024-02-14 at 00:16 By Katyanna Quach You can use neural networks to help, sure, but not do all the work The US Patent and Trademark Office this week repeated loud and clear it will only accept patent applications that list actual real
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QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles 2024-02-13 at 22:17 By Connor Jones Two new flaws, one zero-day, countless different patches, but everything’s fine! Network-attached storage (NAS) specialist QNAP has disclosed and released fixes for two new vulnerabilities, one of them a zero-day discovered in early November.… This article is an excerpt from The
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SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes 2024-02-13 at 22:16 By This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source
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CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day 2024-02-13 at 22:16 By The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21412) in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day
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Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-21412, CVE-2024-21351) 2024-02-13 at 22:01 By Zeljka Zorz On February 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has delivered fixes for 72 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including two zero-days (CVE-2024-21412, CVE-2024-21351) that are being leveraged by attackers in the wild. About CVE-2024-21412 and CVE-2024-21351 CVE-2024-21412 allows attackers to bypass the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen
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