April, 2024 - Security Ticks

Banks could flood into stablecoins if new bill passes: S&P Global

Banks could flood into stablecoins if new bill passes: S&P Global 2024-04-25 at 06:02 By Cointelegraph by Tom Mitchelhill The Lummis-GillibrandPayment Stablecoin Act introduced to the Senate could see big banks encouraged to take steps into the stablecoin market, says S&P Global Ratings. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React […]

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73% of SME security pros missed or ignored critical alerts

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73% of SME security pros missed or ignored critical alerts 2024-04-25 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) IT staff is overwhelmed by the complexity and demands of managing multiple tools in their security stack, leading them to miss critical severity events and weaken their company’s security posture, according to Coro.

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Cisco Systems Joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican Pledge to Ensure Ethical Use and Development of AI

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Cisco Systems Joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican Pledge to Ensure Ethical Use and Development of AI 2024-04-25 at 05:31 By Associated Press Pope Francis has called for an international treaty to ensure AI is developed and used ethically, devoting his annual peace message this year to the topic. The post Cisco Systems Joins Microsoft, IBM

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39% of Canada’s institutional investors have exposure to crypto: KPMG

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39% of Canada’s institutional investors have exposure to crypto: KPMG 2024-04-25 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea KPMG Canada partner Kunal Bhasin says rising debt and increasing inflation have likely attracted institutional investors into crypto. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat

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IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat 2024-04-25 at 05:02 By Simon Sharwood Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints IBM has announced it will acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, and touted the deal as meaning its hybrid cloud platform will

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Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ – aka backdooring encryption

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Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ – aka backdooring encryption 2024-04-25 at 03:47 By Simon Sharwood And warn that AI us already being used by extremists to plot attacks The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance

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Meta drops 15% on weak outlook and high AI and metaverse spending

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Meta drops 15% on weak outlook and high AI and metaverse spending 2024-04-25 at 03:01 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Meta shares dipped after a disappointing Q2 revenue outlook and plans to spend nearly $100 billion this year as it aims to “invest aggressively” in its AI products. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

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Governments issue alerts after ‘sophisticated’ state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes

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Governments issue alerts after ‘sophisticated’ state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes 2024-04-25 at 02:17 By Jessica Lyons Don’t get too comfortable: ‘Line Dancer’ malware may be targeting other vendors, too A previously unknown and “sophisticated” nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked

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The Bitcoin-hating European Central Bank isn’t doing much to stop scammers

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The Bitcoin-hating European Central Bank isn’t doing much to stop scammers 2024-04-25 at 02:02 By Cointelegraph by Dr. Paolo Tasca The European Central Bank is too busy attacking Bitcoin to worry about the myriad of real scams perpetrated by con artists in the industry. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Bitcoin analysts agree that BTC has ‘a lot further to run’

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Bitcoin analysts agree that BTC has ‘a lot further to run’ 2024-04-25 at 01:01 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Key on-chain metrics suggest a higher baseline for Bitcoin price now that the halving is complete. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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Samourai Wallet mixer co-founders arrested on AML, licensing charges

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Samourai Wallet mixer co-founders arrested on AML, licensing charges 2024-04-25 at 01:01 By Cointelegraph by Derek Andersen The crypto mixer allegedly handled $2 billion in unlawful transactions and facilitated $100 million in money laundering. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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Changpeng Zhao could serve time in the same facility as ‘crypto-anarchist’ Jim Bell

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Changpeng Zhao could serve time in the same facility as ‘crypto-anarchist’ Jim Bell 2024-04-25 at 01:01 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright An expert in U.S. federal prisons suggested that the former Binance CEO, if sentenced to incarceration, could face the risk of “theft and extortion” from other inmates. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

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With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes

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With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes 2024-04-25 at 00:34 By Tobias Mann Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs Nvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the efficiency of computing clusters built on GPU.…

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Manchester City to release digital collectibles through multi-year partnership with Quidd

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Manchester City to release digital collectibles through multi-year partnership with Quidd 2024-04-25 at 00:02 By Cointelegraph by Tristan Greene The collectibles will include “money can’t buy” experiences such as pitch-side seats for exclusive team training events. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM

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Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM 2024-04-25 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn It’s not the fastest machine learning model, but you can’t have everything Apple, not normally known for its openness, has released a generative AI model called OpenELM which apparently outperforms a set of other language models trained on public data sets.…

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Musk moves Tesla’s goalposts, investors happily move shares higher

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Musk moves Tesla’s goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 2024-04-24 at 23:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y’all buying it this time, too? Opinion Elon Musk has a strategy and you may have seen it before: When things aren’t going well, he’ll say something wild to take everyone’s eyes

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Do Kwon appeals Montenegrin court decision, claiming ‘unfounded and illegal’ interpretation

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Do Kwon appeals Montenegrin court decision, claiming ‘unfounded and illegal’ interpretation 2024-04-24 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The question of the Terraform co-founder’s extradition to either the U.S. or South Korea has been bouncing between lower and higher courts in Montenegro for months. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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Shouldn’t Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking

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Shouldn’t Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking 2024-04-24 at 22:46 By Jessica Lyons Doctorow: ‘The most amazing part is that this isn’t already the way it’s done’ Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to

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Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to ‘make the Start menu great again’

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Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to ‘make the Start menu great again’ 2024-04-24 at 21:46 By Matthew Connatser And you thought the Bing begging was annoying Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update.… This article is an

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Hackers backdoored Cisco ASA devices via two zero-days (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359)

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Hackers backdoored Cisco ASA devices via two zero-days (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359) 2024-04-24 at 21:31 By Zeljka Zorz A state-sponsored threat actor has managed to compromise Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) used on government networks across the globe and use two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359) to install backdoors on them, Cisco Talos researchers have shared on Wednesday.

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