May 2024

Living off the land in a victim’s network 2024-05-31 at 07:02 By Despite sophisticated threat and detection tools, cyber adversaries have proven that they are able to maintain a presence on a victim’s network.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Singapore to offer enterprises incentives to buy greener hardware 2024-05-31 at 04:46 By Laura Dobberstein and Simon Sharwood Tropical nation ends DC build hiatus and calls for energy optimization everywhere – even software Singapore will offer incentives aimed at encouraging enterprises to upgrade their hardware fleets, as part of a Green Data Centre Roadmap announced

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Mystery attacker remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware update 2024-05-31 at 03:16 By Jessica Lyons Source and motive of ‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ attack unknown Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling them, according to security researchers.…

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OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops 2024-05-31 at 02:31 By Thomas Claburn That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce OpenAI on Thursday said it has disrupted five covert influence operations that were attempting to use its AI services to manipulate

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California’s Governor Newsom is worried AI will be smothered in regulation 2024-05-31 at 02:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo OTOH, ‘If we chase a shiny object, we could put ourselves in a perilous position’ California Governor Gavin Newsom wants his state’s legislators to know that he appreciates their efforts to put the home of Silicon Valley at

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Tesla slams advisors for not loving Musk’s $44.9B payout 2024-05-31 at 01:46 By Matthew Connatser We hired you for one job… Tesla has slammed advisory firm Glass Lewis after its recommendation that shareholders vote against CEO Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package and the automaker relocation to Texas.… This article is an excerpt from The

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US Treasury says NFTs ‘highly susceptible’ to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals 2024-05-31 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Narco kingpins aren’t coming for your apes, but internet con artists still are The US Treasury Department has assessed the risk of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) being used for illicit finance, and has found them wanting for

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Amazon to add 15 datacenters to nuclear-powered campus 2024-05-31 at 00:33 By Tobias Mann And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning Amazon’s nuclear-powered cloud campus in Pennsylvania, USA, will reportedly be home to more than a dozen new datacenters over the next decade.… This article is

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FCC boss wants tighter rules to prevent devastating satellite explosions in orbit 2024-05-31 at 00:16 By Richard Speed Rosenworcel suggests bringing risk down to 1 in 1,000 for debris-emitting blasts – will other countries play ball? The chair of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has called on the US watchdog to tighten up rules that

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Latest user-repairable Framework laptop includes Core Ultra, 2.8K display 2024-05-30 at 23:32 By Dan Robinson Customize and replace it all with one tool Fans of repairable and upgradeable kit will be pleased to hear that the latest version of Framework Computer’s 13in laptop sports Intel Core Ultra CPUs along with a hi-res display module and

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Palantir bags $480M from Pentagon to inject battlefield AI into the military 2024-05-30 at 23:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Uncle Sam wants Maven Smart System to be in use across DoD by 2029 Palantir is unlikely to put critics at ease with its latest US government contract: A $480 million award from the Pentagon’s Chief Digital

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Amazon Prime Air delivery drones allowed off line-of-sight leash 2024-05-30 at 22:31 By Thomas Claburn Sky shipping allowed beyond visual range of operators – starting in Texas and then maybe an airspace near you Amazon Prime Air has received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration to fly its package-delivery drones beyond the visual line

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Verizon joins satellite phone party, links up to AST SpaceMobile 2024-05-30 at 22:16 By Dan Robinson Rival AT&T is also with AST, although T-Mobile went with SpaceX’s Starlink Verizon has become the latest telco to sign up for a satellite phone service, joining rival US operator AT&T in choosing AST SpaceMobile as its provider, even

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Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains 2024-05-30 at 21:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Operation Endgame just beginning: ‘Stay tuned,’ says Europol An international law enforcement operation led by Europol has kicked off with the announcement of multiple arrests, searches, seizures and takedowns of malware droppers and their operators.… This article is an excerpt

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CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw 2024-05-30 at 21:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Linux kernel to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2024-1086 (CVSS score: 7.8), the high-severity issue relates

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