October 12, 2024

Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver 2024-10-12 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time After nearly a year in orbit, the US Space Force’s secretive X-37B is prepped to perform some fancy new maneuvers to alter its orbit and dump its service […]

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Anthropic’s Claude vulnerable to ’emotional manipulation’ 2024-10-12 at 13:32 By Thomas Claburn AI model safety only goes so far Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, despite its reputation as one of the better behaved generative AI models, can still be convinced to emit racist hate speech and malware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation 2024-10-12 at 08:17 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with allegedly manipulating digital asset markets as part of a widespread fraud operation. The law enforcement action – codenamed Operation Token Mirrors –

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US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities 2024-10-12 at 06:21 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also, phishing’s easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more in brief  If you need an excuse to improve your patching habits, a joint advisory from the US and UK governments about a

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INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good 2024-10-12 at 02:03 By Connor Jones Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 believe the INC ransomware crew is no more and recently rebranded itself as Lynx over a three-month period.…

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US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants 2024-10-12 at 00:33 By Jessica Lyons Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also urge federal regulators

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