February 2025

Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer 2025-02-25 at 11:33 By Connor Jones Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks Southern Water neither confirms nor denies offering Black Basta a $750,000 ransom payment following its ransomware attack in 2024.… This article is an excerpt […]

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Hurrah! AI won’t destroy developer or DBA jobs 2025-02-25 at 10:33 By Dan Robinson Bureau of Labor Statics warns lawyers and customer service reps to brace for change, says techies will be fine Developers worried about their careers in the age of AI might be able to relax a little after the US Bureau of

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How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning … for miscreants to exploit 2025-02-25 at 09:49 By Thomas Claburn and Jessica Lyons Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process Analysis  AI models like OpenAI o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking can mimic human reasoning through a process called chain of thought.…

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FatalRAT Phishing Attacks Target APAC Industries Using Chinese Cloud Services 2025-02-25 at 08:58 By Various industrial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have been targeted as part of phishing attacks designed to deliver a known malware called FatalRAT. “The threat was orchestrated by attackers using legitimate Chinese cloud content delivery network (CDN) myqcloud and the

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If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks 2025-02-25 at 08:38 By Simon Sharwood The small pool of suppliers understand their market power APRICOT 2025  The market for dielectric liquid required for immersion cooling is dominated by a small number of players that are aware of their market power.…

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Automation gains traction as CISOs grapple with compliance challenges 2025-02-25 at 08:04 By As security leaders navigate increasingly complex technology environments, compliance with new and existing regulations remains a challenge. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Two Actively Exploited Security Flaws in Adobe and Oracle Products Flagged by CISA 2025-02-25 at 06:48 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities

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Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure 2025-02-25 at 04:33 By Tobias Mann Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on Comment  Despite persistent worries that vast spending on AI infrastructure may not pay for itself, cloud providers, hyperscalers,

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LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing 2025-02-25 at 02:49 By Thomas Claburn Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet A federal magistrate judge has recommended $15,000 in sanctions be imposed on an attorney who cited non-existent court cases concocted by an AI chatbot.… This article

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Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes 2025-02-25 at 02:21 By Iain Thomson Everyone knew texted OTPs were a dud back in 2016 Google has confirmed it will phase out the use of SMS text messages for multi-factor authentication in favor of more secure technologies.… This article is an excerpt

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Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over next 4 years to swerve Trump tariffs 2025-02-24 at 23:49 By Tobias Mann Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc As computer makers grapple with Trump’s tariffs, Apple is doubling down on US manufacturing and research and development

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US Dept of Housing screens subverted to show deepfake of Trump sucking Elon’s toes 2025-02-24 at 22:21 By Iain Thomson ‘Appropriate action will be taken,’ we’re told – as federal HR email sparks uproar, ax falls on CISA staff Visitors to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headquarters in the capital got some

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US lawmakers rip EU over Big Tech fines that ‘target American companies’ 2025-02-24 at 20:29 By Thomas Barrabi A top House Republican has demanded answers on how the European Union will enforce antitrust regulations against US Big Tech firms – days after President Trump vowed to protect the industry from fines that amount to “overseas

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SSE: What They Won’t Tell You (But I Will) 2025-02-24 at 20:29 By Nate Fitzgerald Part 2 of 3: You’ll need SSE to deliver more than security This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

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Appeals court upholds convictions of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, ex-lover 2025-02-24 at 20:01 By Reuters A three-judge panel for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected claims of legal errors at their separate trials held in 2022. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

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