October 2024

Meta’s Oversight Board restores meme showing Harris and Walz as ‘Dumb and Dumber’ — after Facebook ban 2024-10-23 at 16:23 By Thomas Barrabi Meta’s Oversight Board on Wednesday overturned Facebook’s decision to remove a meme that poked fun at the Democratic presidential ticket as characters from the hit film “Dumb and Dumber.” This article is

NHS would be hit by ‘significant’ costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords 2024-10-23 at 15:33 By Lindsay Clark As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow UK lawmakers have warned the government that if it doesn’t continue to harmonize its post-Brexit data rules

CISOs respond: 49% of CISOs plan to leave role without industry action 2024-10-23 at 15:03 By A survey shows that nearly half (49%) of CISOs do not believe there is a future for them in this role. CISOs are sharing their insights on this statistic.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s

Back to basics: Why DNS is still foundational even as technology evolves 2024-10-23 at 15:03 By Getting back to the basics is essential before security leaders can start thinking about engaging with these new technologies.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Codasip opens up SDK for CHERI protection on RISC-V chips 2024-10-23 at 14:33 By Dan Robinson Alliance commits to Integrating the architecture into all high-tech products Processor design outfit Codasip is donating an SDK it developed for the CHERI security architecture to the industry body that promotes the technology, saying this will allow its unrestricted

SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it’s FOSS 2024-10-23 at 13:32 By Liam Proven Author would like to see a switch back to plain old static HTML. Us too Developer Loris Cro reckons his LSP language server for HTML is a world first, and that the absence of such tools up

Researchers Reveal ‘Deceptive Delight’ Method to Jailbreak AI Models 2024-10-23 at 13:30 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new adversarial technique that could be used to jailbreak large language models (LLMs) during the course of an interactive conversation by sneaking in an undesirable instruction between benign ones. The approach has been codenamed Deceptive

Think You’re Secure? 49% of Enterprises Underestimate SaaS Risks 2024-10-23 at 13:30 By It may come as a surprise to learn that 34% of security practitioners are in the dark about how many SaaS applications are deployed in their organizations. And it’s no wonder—the recent AppOmni 2024 State of SaaS Security Report reveals that only

Ransomware Gangs Use LockBit’s Fame to Intimidate Victims in Latest Attacks 2024-10-23 at 13:30 By Threat actors have been observed abusing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Transfer Acceleration feature as part of ransomware attacks designed to exfiltrate victim data and upload them to S3 buckets under their control. “Attempts were made to disguise the Golang

Feature phones all the rage as parents try to shield kids from harm 2024-10-23 at 12:34 By Dan Robinson Dad, why does this button say ABC? It’s a short term trend, says analyst Sales of “dumb” phones are on the rise in the UK, according to telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), with parents choosing them

OpenAI’s rapid growth loaded with ‘corner case’ challenges, says Fivetran CEO 2024-10-23 at 11:38 By Lindsay Clark GenAI poster child is a 100-story-tall baby with simple infrastructure but extreme demands Interview  When OpenAI launched GPT-4 in March last year, it was coy about the model’s size and what went into making it. Nonetheless, the current

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC’s chief scientist 2024-10-23 at 10:34 By Simon Sharwood There was always more pressing work to do than migrate, and CDNs have changed the rules The chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center has a theory about why the world