July 2024

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made 2024-07-24 at 08:31 By Simon Sharwood Something called ‘Content Validator’ did not validate the content, and the rest is history CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.… This article is an excerpt […]

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Security biz KnowBe4 hired fake North Korean techie, who got straight to work … on evil 2024-07-24 at 08:01 By Laura Dobberstein If it can happen to folks that run social engineering defence training, what hope for the rest of us? Security awareness and training provider KnowBe4 hired a fake North Korean IT worker for

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Data breach victims increased by 490% since the first half of 2023 2024-07-24 at 07:16 By A new report analyzes data breach incidents occurring in the first half 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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VMware sends vSphere 7 into extra time by extending support for six months 2024-07-24 at 07:01 By Simon Sharwood A nice surprise, but some other vAdmins have an August 1 deadline to sort out subscriptions VMware users have had a little win, as the Broadcom business unit has extended the supported life of its flagship

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Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin’ it 2024-07-24 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit Google has managed to cap the costs it incurs when using AI to generate results.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers 2024-07-24 at 03:47 By Laura Dobberstein President apologizes in advance for job losses The Philippines has decided to dismantle the worst of its offshored industries: the bits that run gambling and scam operations.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Meta claims ‘world’s largest’ open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut 2024-07-24 at 00:46 By Tobias Mann Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of Meta today released Llama 3.1 405B, its largest and most capable large language model yet, which the social network claims can go toe-to-toe with

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How did a CrowdStrike config file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look 2024-07-24 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too? Analysis  Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform

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FTC opens investigation into ‘surveillance pricing’ that gouges consumers 2024-07-23 at 21:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Ever shop in an incognito window to avoid paying more? This one’s for you The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into “surveillance pricing,” a phenomenon likely familiar to anyone who’s bought something in an incognito browser

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Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage 2024-07-23 at 20:31 By Richard Speed How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind? If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it’s to understand exactly what delayed updates mean – or don’t mean – in the anti-malware

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Sam Altman’s basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness 2024-07-23 at 20:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo But not necessarily health The results of the largest universal basic income (UBI) trial program in the United States – this one backed by billionaire Sam Altman, no less – are in and entirely unsurprising.… This article

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