May 2024

“Linguistic Lumberjack” Vulnerability Discovered in Popular Logging Utility Fluent Bit 2024-05-21 at 10:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in a popular logging and metrics utility called Fluent Bit that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS), information disclosure, or remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4323, has been codenamed Linguistic Lumberjack by Tenable […]

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ScarJo voices anger at OpenAI’s unauthorized sound-alike 2024-05-21 at 09:31 By Simon Sharwood Sam Altman liked the sound of a fictional ScarBot, which makes this all a bit creepy Audio  Movie megastar Scarlett Johansson has complained that one of the voices OpenAI’s ChatGPT uses in voice interactions sounds eerily like her own – despite having

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Alleged $100M dark-web drug kingpin, 23, arrested 2024-05-21 at 09:31 By Laura Dobberstein DoJ claims he used platform’s last days to extort its users A 23-year-old Taiwanese man was arrested in New York for allegedly running the $100 million global dark web narcotics e-commerce operation known as Incognito Market.… This article is an excerpt from

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Twenty-three year old alleged dark net drug kingpin arrested 2024-05-21 at 09:16 By Laura Dobberstein DoJ claims he used platform’s last days to extort its users A 23-year old Taiwanese man was arrested in New York for allegedly running the $100 million global dark web narcotics e-commerce operation known as Incognito Market, according to a

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Consolidation is coming to corporate security technology 2024-05-21 at 07:16 By Technology within the corporate security industry is ripe for consolidation and a better way to operate. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Big Tech is not much help when fighting a junta, and FOSS doesn’t ride to the rescue 2024-05-21 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood Opponents of Myanmar’s internet-nobbling military government don’t like when Facebook asks for their real names Big Tech isn’t much help if you’re an activist trying to work against a military junta, and

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Taiwan’s new president wants to upgrade from ‘silicon island’ to ‘AI island’ 2024-05-21 at 05:01 By Simon Sharwood Drone island too – in part to keep China at bay, and to keep TSMC’s sweet silicon flowing Taiwan’s recently elected president, Lai Ching-te, has used his inaugural address to call for the island state to upgrade

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Intel, AMD take a back seat as Qualcomm takes center stage in Microsoft’s AI PC push 2024-05-21 at 04:31 By Tobias Mann Plus: Windows set for ML-powered always-watching-you Recall feature Build  Microsoft isn’t waiting around for Intel and AMD to get their neural processing units (NPUs) up to snuff and is pushing its AI PC

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OpenSSF sings a Siren song to steer developers away from buggy FOSS 2024-05-21 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo New infosec intelligence service aims to spread the word about recently discovered vulns in free code Securing open source software may soon become a little bit easier thanks to a new vulnerability info-sharing effort initiated by the

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Julian Assange can appeal extradition to the US, London High Court rules 2024-05-21 at 01:16 By Jessica Lyons Let me go, Brandon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US from the UK, the High Court of England and Wales ruled Monday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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FDA gives Neuralink ‘a second shot’ at human brain chip 2024-05-21 at 00:31 By Matthew Connatser A case of ‘keep digging deeper’ actually being the right move for Elon, potentially America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reportedly approved Neuralink to implant an updated brain chip in a second human patient. The Elon Musk startup

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Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade 2024-05-20 at 23:16 By Thomas Claburn Luckily we have the Wayback Machine The web is melting away like so many glaciers these days.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Hm! Boeing union just ran whistleblower rights training 2024-05-20 at 21:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Staff decibel level is high – and not just from all those jet engines A union representing Boeing employees held a training session last week on whistleblower protection rights, suggesting the troubled jetmaker’s problems may be far from over. … This article

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Google takes shots at Microsoft for shoddy security record with enterprise apps 2024-05-20 at 21:01 By Matthew Connatser Also, feds who switch to Google Workspace for 3 years get an extra year for free Google has taken a victory lap in the wake of high-profile intrusions into Microsoft’s systems, and says businesses should ditch Exchange

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