September 2024

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext 2024-09-30 at 10:01 By The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users’ passwords in

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Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis

Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis 2024-09-30 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Is this AI showing the would-be leader of the free world who’s really the boss? Artificial intelligence may have shown the would-be-leader of the free world who’s really in charge, after rogue robo-taxis halted the motorcade of US vice-president – and

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China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband

China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband 2024-09-30 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein Great Firewall reaches all the way into space Beijing has published its proposed regulations for satellite broadband, including a requirement that operators conduct censorship in real time.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Could APIs be the undoing of AI?

Could APIs be the undoing of AI? 2024-09-30 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Application programming interfaces (APIs) are essential to how generative AI (GenAI) functions with agents (e.g., calling upon them for data). But the combination of API and LLM issues coupled with rapid rollouts is likely to see numerous organizations having to combat

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SCCMSecrets: Open-source SCCM policies exploitation tool

SCCMSecrets: Open-source SCCM policies exploitation tool 2024-09-30 at 07:31 By Help Net Security SCCMSecrets is an open-source tool that exploits SCCM policies, offering more than just NAA credential extraction. SCCM policies are a key target for attackers in Active Directory environments, as they can expose sensitive technical information, including account credentials. Attackers may retrieve these

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Open source maintainers: Key to software health and security

Open source maintainers: Key to software health and security 2024-09-30 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Open source has become the foundation of modern application development, with up to 98% of applications incorporating open-source components and open-source code accounting for 70% or more of the typical application. In this Help Net Security video, Donald Fischer,

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Businesses turn to private AI for enhanced security and data management

Businesses turn to private AI for enhanced security and data management 2024-09-30 at 06:31 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Joe Baguley, CTO EMEA at Broadcom, shares insights on private AI and its significance in data security. He explains how it helps organizations maintain control over sensitive information while addressing the complexities

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California Governor Vetoes Bill to Create First-in-Nation AI Safety Measures

California Governor Vetoes Bill to Create First-in-Nation AI Safety Measures 2024-09-30 at 06:16 By Associated Press Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill SB 1047 aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence models. The post California Governor Vetoes Bill to Create First-in-Nation AI Safety Measures appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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The most common authentication method is also the least secure

The most common authentication method is also the least secure 2024-09-30 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Despite the rise in cyber threats, many people do not have a holistic view of security, according to Yubico. The results of the survey uncovered concerning patterns and behaviors when it comes to personal and workplace cybersecurity, including

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Red team hacker on how she ‘breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy’

Red team hacker on how she ‘breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy’ 2024-09-29 at 19:47 By Jessica Lyons Alethe Denis exposes tricks that made you fall for that return-to-office survey Interview  A hacker walked into a “very big city” building on a Wednesday morning with no keys to any doors or

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Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip

Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip 2024-09-29 at 12:46 By Gavin Bonshor It won’t smash any benchmarks, but it will go where most others can’t Brit chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has created a 32-bit microprocessor in a “flexible technology that is fully functional while flexed.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Week in review: Windows Server 2025 gets hotpatching option, PoC for SolarWinds WHD flaw released

Week in review: Windows Server 2025 gets hotpatching option, PoC for SolarWinds WHD flaw released 2024-09-29 at 11:01 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Windows Server 2025 gets hotpatching option, without reboots Organizations that plan to upgrade to Windows Server 2025 once

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Mozilla Accused of User Tracking Without Consent

Mozilla Accused of User Tracking Without Consent 2024-09-28 at 15:09 View original post at vpnMentor Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, is under scrutiny after privacy group noyb filed a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority. Mozilla is accused of secretly enabling a tracking feature called “Privacy Preserving Attribution” (PPA), which noyb

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Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign

Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign 2024-09-28 at 13:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a period of nearly five months. The dodgy app, identified by

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