June 2024

Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall 2024-06-04 at 16:01 By Richard Speed ‘Does any of this add real value for users or enterprises?’ If Microsoft intended the 2024 Build event to be overshadowed by controversy then it succeeded as calls intensify for the company to rethink its strategy around Recall.… This article […]

Graveyards a favorite haunt for solar farms in Valencia 2024-06-04 at 15:32 By Richard Currie Because the dead don’t really need all this space to themselves, surely? In a move likely to leave both the living and the dearly departed feeling a bit sunnier, the Spanish city of Valencia is turning its cemeteries into bustling

Administrator of 911 S5 botnet arrested, botnet dismantled 2024-06-04 at 15:16 By A coordinated international operation had led to the apprehension of the alleged 911 S5 botnet administrator.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The Next Generation of RBI (Remote Browser Isolation) 2024-06-04 at 15:16 By The landscape of browser security has undergone significant changes over the past decade. While Browser Isolation was once considered the gold standard for protecting against browser exploits and malware downloads, it has become increasingly inadequate and insecure in today’s SaaS-centric world. The limitations

Hackers Use MS Excel Macro to Launch Multi-Stage Malware Attack in Ukraine 2024-06-04 at 15:16 By A new sophisticated cyber attack has been observed targeting endpoints geolocated to Ukraine with an aim to deploy Cobalt Strike and seize control of the compromised hosts. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves a Microsoft Excel file

Cybercrooks get cozy with BoxedApp to dodge detection 2024-06-04 at 15:03 By Connor Jones Some of the biggest names in the game are hopping on the trend Malware miscreants are increasingly showing a penchant for abusing legitimate, commercial packer apps to evade detection.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers 2024-06-04 at 14:01 By Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform,”

Millions forced to use brain as OpenAI’s ChatGPT takes morning off 2024-06-04 at 13:46 By Richard Speed Bots just as likely to fall over as everything else in the cloud OpenAI’s ChatGPT has suffered a “major outage,” leaving customers unable to converse with the company’s chatbot.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Hubble plays spin the bottle with last few gyros 2024-06-04 at 12:33 By Richard Speed Time to dust off those contingency plans? The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has again suspended science operations due to an ongoing gyroscope problem.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Checkmate? AI’s pawn-pushing prowess proves partly pitiful, partly promising 2024-06-04 at 11:35 By Matthew Connatser GPT-4o is far better than other models, but still made illegal moves 13% of the time A new benchmark for large language models (LLMs) shows that even the latest models aren’t the best chess players.… This article is an excerpt