December 2024

Hackers Use Corrupted ZIPs and Office Docs to Evade Antivirus and Email Defenses

Hackers Use Corrupted ZIPs and Office Docs to Evade Antivirus and Email Defenses 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a novel phishing campaign that leverages corrupted Microsoft Office documents and ZIP archives as a way to bypass email defenses. “The ongoing attack evades #antivirus software, prevents uploads to sandboxes, and bypasses […]

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Securing AI’s new frontier: Visibility, governance, and mitigating compliance risks

Securing AI’s new frontier: Visibility, governance, and mitigating compliance risks 2024-12-04 at 07:21 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Niv Braun, CEO at Noma Security, discusses the difficulties security teams face due to the fragmented nature of AI processes, tools, and teams across the data and AI lifecycle. Braun also shares insights

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70% of open-source components are poorly or no longer maintained

70% of open-source components are poorly or no longer maintained 2024-12-04 at 06:35 By Help Net Security The geographic distribution of open-source contributions introduces geopolitical risks that organizations must urgently consider, especially with rising nation-state attacks, according to Lineaje. Open-source code risks rise with anonymous contributions Microsoft estimates that its customers face 600 million cyberattacks

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RISC-V’s AI champion just scored $693M cash infusion

RISC-V’s AI champion just scored $693M cash infusion 2024-12-04 at 06:04 By Tobias Mann Architecture may be good for more than cut-rate SoCs and high-volume microcontrollers after all RISC-V chip designer Tenstorrent has won $693 million of investment – an endorsement of its plans to use the permissively licensed instruction set architecture for workloads like

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65% of office workers bypass cybersecurity to boost productivity

65% of office workers bypass cybersecurity to boost productivity 2024-12-04 at 06:04 By Help Net Security High-risk access exists throughout the workplace, in almost every job role, proving that the time has come for organizations to re-think the way they protect their workforce, according to CyberArk. CyberArk surveyed 14,003 employees in the UK, USA, France,

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FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the metre

FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the metre 2024-12-04 at 04:52 By Iain Thomson ‘Where we go is who we are’ totally isn’t a creepy ad slogan at all The FTC has reached a settlement with two data brokerages over allegations they harvested precise location data that shows when people

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AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows

AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows 2024-12-04 at 03:19 By Thomas Claburn Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft’s OS at pleasing speed re:Invent  Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman opened the cloud computing service’s 13th annual re:Invent conference by

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Perfect 10 directory traversal vuln hits SailPoint’s IAM solution

Perfect 10 directory traversal vuln hits SailPoint’s IAM solution 2024-12-04 at 01:48 By Connor Jones 20-year-old info disclosure class bug still pervades security software It’s time to rev up those patch engines after SailPoint disclosed a perfect 10/10 severity vulnerability in its identity and access management (IAM) platform IdentityIQ.… This article is an excerpt from

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Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year

Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year 2024-12-03 at 23:36 By Richard Speed We’re sure you’ll learn to love the new Outlook for Windows app Microsoft is preparing to kill off the old Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps by the end of this month and

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SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset

SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset 2024-12-03 at 22:26 By Richard Speed Probe may not make it to 30 as funding runs out and replacement is launched ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is approaching what could be its final year of operations as it hits the 29th

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Major energy contractor reports ‘limited’ access to IT after ransomware locks files

Major energy contractor reports ‘limited’ access to IT after ransomware locks files 2024-12-03 at 22:26 By Jessica Lyons ENGlobal customers include the Pentagon as well as major oil and gas producers American energy contractor ENGlobal disclosed that access to its IT systems remains limited following a ransomware infection in late November.… This article is an

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX could be valued at a whopping $350B in sale of insider shares: report

Elon Musk’s SpaceX could be valued at a whopping $350B in sale of insider shares: report 2024-12-03 at 22:03 By Thomas Barrabi The tender offer – in which employees and early investors are allowed to sell shares at a specific time and price – would mark a rapid jump in value for SpaceX. This article

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Pakistan Reverses Course on VPN Ban: Here’s Why

Pakistan Reverses Course on VPN Ban: Here’s Why 2024-12-03 at 21:43 View original post at Safety Detectives Pakistan’s war on VPNs may have come to somewhat of an end. The Pakistani government was in the middle of making significant strides towards its goal of banning VPNs until Monday when the country’s Law Ministry announced a

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Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net

Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net 2024-12-03 at 20:49 By Tobias Mann Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic’s next-gen models Re:Invent  Amazon Web Services teased its next gen AI accelerator dubbed Trainium3 at re:Invent on Tuesday, which it says will deliver 4x higher

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AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics

AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics 2024-12-03 at 20:35 By Tim Anderson Most significant API changes since S3 was launched, AWS VP tells us Re:Invent  There are two significant changes to AWS’s ubiquitous S3 storage service arriving soon: first, a new Table bucket type aimed at data analytics; and second,

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Judge voids Musk’s record-setting Tesla pay package

Judge voids Musk’s record-setting Tesla pay package 2024-12-03 at 19:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo “Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here,” says Delaware Chancellor Elon Musk’s controversial $56 billion Tesla compensation package, voided by a Delaware court in January and reinstated by shareholder vote in June, has

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Veeam plugs serious holes in Service Provider Console (CVE-2024-42448, CVE-2024-42449)

Veeam plugs serious holes in Service Provider Console (CVE-2024-42448, CVE-2024-42449) 2024-12-03 at 19:48 By Zeljka Zorz Veeam has fixed two vulnerabilities in Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), one of which (CVE-2024-42448) may allow remote attackers to achieve code exection on the VSPC server machine. The vulnerabilities Veeam Service Provider Console is a cloud-enabled platform that

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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg wants ‘active role’ in shaping Trump tech policy, exec Nick Clegg says

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg wants ‘active role’ in shaping Trump tech policy, exec Nick Clegg says 2024-12-03 at 19:28 By Thomas Barrabi Meta’s top policy executive said Mark Zuckerberg wants to play an “active role” in shaping tech regulations under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration – and admitted the social media giant “overdid it a bit” while

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