February 2024

Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT… jackpot 2024-02-27 at 11:47 By Jessica Lyons Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers Analysis  Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing

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Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content 2024-02-27 at 10:32 By Katyanna Quach Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections Meta is launching an “EU-specific Elections Operations Center” to tackle AI-generated misinformation and political advertising to prepare for upcoming parliament elections.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec 2024-02-27 at 09:37 By Simon Sharwood First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware’s SD-WAN and Symantec’s Security Service Edge, by today debuting the “VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured

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Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns 2024-02-27 at 08:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Machine learning will make everyone a programmer, so best become an expert in something else Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI has advanced to the point at which it’s no longer necessary to prioritize computer science

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WordPress Plugin Alert – Critical SQLi Vulnerability Threatens 200K+ Websites 2024-02-27 at 08:02 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in a popular WordPress plugin called Ultimate Member that has more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1071, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher Christiaan Swiers

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‘How do I reset my router’ isn’t in LLM corpuses. An alliance of telcos wants to change that 2024-02-27 at 07:49 By Simon Sharwood Customer service data from five top telcos across Asia, Europe, and Emirates will feed a carrier-centric multi-lingual chatbots A joint venture comprising carriers SoftBank, Singtel, SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and e&

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Japan’s SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap 2024-02-27 at 06:52 By Laura Dobberstein How’s that for resilient? Against almost astronomical odds, Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has reestablished communication with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this

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China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens 2024-02-27 at 06:16 By Simon Sharwood Scammers’ tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by

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Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis threatened to do just that 2024-02-27 at 05:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables, but here we are Undersea data cables in the Red Sea have reportedly been damaged, months after Yemeni Houthi rebels threatened to do so.…

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Google to bring Gemini model back online in a few weeks after adjusting historical color calibrations 2024-02-27 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach While you wait, Android devices will start to use gen AI to do stuff like summarize group chats Google hopes to reinstate Gemini’s AI image-generating abilities in the next couple of weeks as

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Russia’s Cozy Bear dives into cloud environments with a new bag of tricks 2024-02-27 at 03:03 By Jessica Lyons Kremlin’s spies tried out the TTPs on Microsoft, and now they’re off to the races Russia’s notorious Cozy Bear, the crew behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack, has expanded its targets and evolved its techniques to

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