May 2024

IBM Consulting bought into Microsoft’s Copilot – now it’ll help customers do the same 2024-05-13 at 14:01 By Richard Speed It’s called Copilot Runway, not run away IBM Consulting has boarded the Microsoft Copilot bandwagon with Copilot Runway, a service aimed at assisting businesses to integrate their own AI assistants into their workflows.… This article

UK public voice fear over security in NHS data systems 2024-05-13 at 13:31 By Lindsay Clark NHS England’s own survey also reveals suspicions that it would sell data to third parties Four out of five patients worry NHS IT systems may be vulnerable to cyber attacks while around half are concerned that the world’s largest

SHQ Response Platform and Risk Centre to Enable Management and Analysts Alike 2024-05-13 at 13:31 By In the last decade, there has been a growing disconnect between front-line analysts and senior management in IT and Cybersecurity. Well-documented challenges facing modern analysts revolve around a high volume of alerts, false positives, poor visibility of technical environments,

Severe Vulnerabilities in Cinterion Cellular Modems Pose Risks to Various Industries 2024-05-13 at 13:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaws in Cinterion cellular modems that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to access sensitive information and achieve code execution. “These vulnerabilities include critical flaws that permit remote code execution and unauthorized privilege

Black Basta Ransomware Strikes 500+ Entities Across North America, Europe, and Australia 2024-05-13 at 13:31 By The Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has targeted more than 500 private industry and critical infrastructure entities in North America, Europe, and Australia since its emergence in April 2022. In a joint advisory published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure

Aurora breaks the exaFLOP barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again 2024-05-13 at 12:46 By Tobias Mann With LLNL’s AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel’s Aurora to claim number 1 spot ISC  Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora supercomputer has officially breached the exaflop barrier, but, once again,

You want us to think of the children? Couldn’t agree more 2024-05-13 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins But breaking E2EE and blanket bans aren’t thinking at all Opinion  If your cranky uncle was this fixated about anything, you’d always be somewhere else at Christmas. Yet here we are again. Europol has been sounding off at

CoreWeave plows £1B into UK HQ and datacenters as it eyes European expansion 2024-05-13 at 10:46 By Tobias Mann Ah, just nod and smile when they talk about Britain and Europe American GPU cloud operator CoreWeave is expanding its operations across the pond, setting up a new European headquarters in London and revealing plans to

Malicious Python Package Hides Sliver C2 Framework in Fake Requests Library Logo 2024-05-13 at 10:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified a malicious Python package that purports to be an offshoot of the popular requests library and has been found concealing a Golang-version of the Sliver command-and-control (C2) framework within a PNG image of the project’s logo.  The package employing

AWS CISO tells The Reg: In the AI gold rush, folks are forgetting application security 2024-05-13 at 10:01 By Jessica Lyons ‘Everybody’s learning as they go. But there’s a rush to get these apps out’ RSAC  As corporations rush full tilt to capitalize on the AI craze and bring machine-learning-based apps to market, they aren’t