October 2024

AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence 2024-10-02 at 10:46 By Thomas Claburn Fun experiment, but yeah, don’t pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered

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The fix for BGP’s weaknesses has big, scary, issues of its own, boffins find 2024-10-02 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Bother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI – just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) protocol has “software vulnerabilities, inconsistent specifications,

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Researchers Sound Alarm on Active Attacks Exploiting Critical Zimbra Postjournal Flaw 2024-10-02 at 09:31 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning about active exploitation attempts targeting a newly disclosed security flaw in Synacor’s Zimbra Collaboration. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said it began observing the activity starting September 28, 2024. The attacks seek to exploit CVE-2024-45519, a severe

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PyPI Repository Found Hosting Fake Crypto Wallet Recovery Tools That Steal User Data 2024-10-02 at 09:31 By A new set of malicious packages has been unearthed in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallet recovery and management services, only to siphon sensitive data and facilitate the theft of valuable digital assets.

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FBI claims corrupt LA cops helped crypto CEO’s cash grab 2024-10-02 at 08:31 By Iain Thomson Feds tell thrilling tale of crypto crooks, Facebook scams, fast cars, guns, betrayal … and leg extensions? Adam Iza, the founder of cryptocurrency trading platform Zort, has been charged with tax evasion and conspiracy in a bizarre tale of

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Singapore tires of Big Tech’s slow and half-hearted help for abused users 2024-10-02 at 07:16 By Laura Dobberstein PM promises agency to handle complaints as he outlines new digital nation plan Singapore is working on legislation and a dedicated agency that would hold online service providers more accountable for cyber bullying, according to prime minister

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Zero trust: A business imperative for the digital age 2024-10-02 at 07:16 By What leaders should understand is that the zero trust approach is more than just an IT project. It is a business imperative.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure 2024-10-02 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores China Telcom’s AI Research Institute claims it trained a 100-billion-parameter model using only domestically produced computing power – a feat that suggests Middle Kingdom entities

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US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene 2024-10-01 at 23:16 By Thomas Claburn Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm’s paywall The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cannot reveal weather forecasts from a particularly accurate hurricane prediction model to the public that pays for the American government agency – because

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