October 2024

How organizations can defend against the increasing API attack surface 2024-10-29 at 06:07 By As APIs increase beyond the range of manual control, organizations may face greater security challenges. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Chinese engineers wire Raspberry Pi into 600-meter railway tunnel to find its flaws 2024-10-29 at 05:49 By Simon Sharwood The GPIO turns out to be a neat way to measure the conductivity of concrete Chinese scientists have found a novel use for the Raspberry Pi: detecting voids in the linings of railway tunnels that could

Tardigrade genes may hold secret to radiation treatments for humans 2024-10-29 at 03:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo Microscopic ‘water bears’ can survive blasts that would kill humans Drugs that prevent or reverse the effects of ionizing radiation have long been a sci-fi pipedream, but the gene sequencing of a newly discovered species of tardigrade could change

iFixit to the rescue: McDonald’s workers can rescue their own ice cream machines 2024-10-29 at 02:48 By Iain Thomson Burger me! Partial success in chipping away at insane DMCA rules The US Copyright Office has published a new list of exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), including one for retail food machines that

Bluesky capitalizes on X woes with funding and user growth 2024-10-29 at 00:48 By Thomas Claburn The decentralized social network hints at sustainability with talk of subscriptions Bluesky says it has hauled in more than 13 million users, up from about three million when it opened to the public in February 2024.… This article is

TSMC reportedly cuts off RISC-V chip designer linked to Huawei accelerators 2024-10-28 at 23:33 By Tobias Mann You know what they say, where there’s a will there’s a Huawei Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has allegedly cut off shipments to Chinese chip designer Sophgo over allegations it was attempting to supply components to Huawei in violation

JPMorgan Chase sues scammers following viral ‘infinite money glitch’ 2024-10-28 at 22:50 By Jessica Lyons ATMs paid customers thousands … and now the bank wants its money back JPMorgan Chase has begun suing fraudsters who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from the bank’s ATMs after a check fraud glitch went viral on social media.… This

Feds investigate China’s Salt Typhoon amid campaign phone hacks 2024-10-28 at 22:18 By Jessica Lyons ‘They’re taunting us,’ investigator says and it looks like it’s working The feds are investigating Chinese government-linked cyberspies breaking into the infrastructure of US telecom companies, as reports suggest Salt Typhoon – the same crew believed to be behind those

Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser 2024-10-28 at 21:19 By Tobias Mann Project Jarvis will apparently conduct research, purchase products, and even book a flight on your behalf Google is reportedly looking to sidestep the complexity of AI-driven automation by letting its multimodal large language models (LLMs) take control of

Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow 2024-10-28 at 20:21 By Brandon Vigliarolo Ukrainian hackers again, or just 50+ year old infrastructure showing its age? Either way, it’s a mess There’s a literal shitshow erupting in Moscow, where a skyscraper-high plume of sewage has erupted in the Russian capital, just months after Ukrainian hackers hit related

ParTec expands supercomputer patent fight from Microsoft to Nvidia 2024-10-28 at 20:21 By Dan Robinson Wants injunction on GPUs that use what it alleges is its own IP German HPC vendor ParTec is taking legal action against Nvidia for alleged patent infringement, seeking an injunction to stop its GPUs being sold in 18 countries that

Chinese Hackers Use CloudScout Toolset to Steal Session Cookies from Cloud Services 2024-10-28 at 19:46 By A government entity and a religious organization in Taiwan were the target of a China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda that infected them with a previously undocumented post-compromise toolset codenamed CloudScout. “The CloudScout toolset is capable of retrieving

Apple quietly admits 8GB isn’t enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard 2024-10-28 at 19:36 By Tobias Mann The silicon no longer limited to Cupertino’s priciest iPads In a surprise announcement on Monday, Apple unveiled a rainbow of new iMacs powered by its M4 processor with 16 GB of memory as

Intel to expand Chengdu facility, despite US China tension 2024-10-28 at 19:19 By Laura Dobberstein Chipzilla unlikely to give in when it comes to its biggest sales market Intel is expanding its packaging and testing base in Chengdu, a move that signals its intent to remain firmly rooted in the Chinese market, despite geopolitical pressures.…

TLC with HOK receives the 2024 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award 2024-10-28 at 19:18 By TLC Engineering Solutions with HOK was awarded SecuritySpecifiers’ 2024 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award for excellence in security design. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

THN Cybersecurity Recap: Top Threats, Tools and News (Oct 21 – Oct 27) 2024-10-28 at 18:51 By Cybersecurity news can sometimes feel like a never-ending horror movie, can’t it? Just when you think the villains are locked up, a new threat emerges from the shadows. This week is no exception, with tales of exploited flaws,

Meta reportedly building AI search engine to cut reliance on Google, Bing 2024-10-28 at 18:35 By Reuters The AI search engine segment is heating up with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Google and Microsoft all vying for dominance in the rapidly evolving market. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York