2024

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill plague 2024-05-16 at 20:17 By Thomas Claburn Fake science challenges academic publishing US publishing house Wiley this week discontinued 19 scientific journals overseen by its Hindawi subsidiary, the center of a long-running scholarly publishing scandal.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Amazon’s latest ‘flex’ VMs promise savings for your burstiest apps 2024-05-16 at 19:46 By Tobias Mann Sustained workloads need not apply Amazon Web Services added another set of cost-optimized instances to its EC2 lineup on Tuesday, aimed at customers whose workloads aren’t pegging the CPU 100 percent of the time.… This article is an excerpt

New Wi-Fi Vulnerability Enables Network Eavesdropping via Downgrade Attacks 2024-05-16 at 19:46 By Researchers have discovered a new security vulnerability stemming from a design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that tricks victims into connecting to a less secure wireless network and eavesdrop on their network traffic. The SSID Confusion attack, tracked as CVE-2023-52424, impacts all operating

59% of organizations faced a software supply chain attack 2024-05-16 at 19:16 By 59% of organizations experienced a software supply chain attack, with 54% of these respondents having experienced one in the past year.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

EU probes Meta over its provisions for protecting children 2024-05-16 at 19:01 By Lindsay Clark Has social media biz done enough to comply with Digital Services Act? Maybe not The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether Meta, the provider of Facebook and Instagram, may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in

Microsoft PC Manager app bizarrely suggests Bing as a Windows fix-all 2024-05-16 at 18:31 By Matthew Connatser Bug or feature? Users looking for Windows repair tips via the Microsoft PC Manager app may be recommended to switch Edge’s default search engine back to Bing.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Stifling Beijing in cyberspace is now British intelligence’s number-one mission 2024-05-16 at 18:01 By Connor Jones Annual conference of cyber intel unit shows UK’s alarm over China blaring louder than ever Regular attendees of CYBERUK, the annual conference hosted by British intelligence unit the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will know that in addition to

Michigan school district deploys AI gun detection, intelligent situational awareness platform 2024-05-16 at 17:31 By A Michigan school district has selected an artificial intelligence (AI)-based gun detection platform as a way to proactively protect its students and faculty against gun-related violence. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

Open Source Initiative tries to define Open Source AI 2024-05-16 at 17:16 By Thomas Claburn Meanwhile, the creator of Open Source Definition argues the real problem is unauthorized copying The Open Source Initiative – the non-profit overseeing the Open Source Definition, which lays out the requirements for software licenses – is taking its effort to

North Korean Hackers Exploit Facebook Messenger in Targeted Malware Campaign 2024-05-16 at 17:16 By The North Korea-linked Kimsuky hacking group has been attributed to a new social engineering attack that employs fictitious Facebook accounts to targets via Messenger and ultimately delivers malware. “The threat actor created a Facebook account with a fake identity disguised as a public