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Beware of Big Head Ransomware: Spreading Through Fake Windows Updates 11/07/2023 at 12:09 By A developing piece of ransomware called Big Head is being distributed as part of a malvertising campaign that takes the form of bogus Microsoft Windows updates and Word installers. Big Head was first documented by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs last month, when it discovered multiple variants

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EU gives its blessing to reopen data pipelines to the US 11/07/2023 at 11:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘We already have various legal options in the drawer,’ says Max Schrems, lawyer who killed the first two deals The European Commission has adopted an agreement with the US, reopening transatlantic data flows between America and EU nations

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Barts NHS hack leaves folks on tenterhooks over extortion 11/07/2023 at 10:46 By Iain Thomson BlackCat pounces on 7TB of data and theatens to release it Staff at one of the UK’s largest hospital groups have spent a nervous week wondering if private data, stolen from their employer’s IT systems by a ransomware gang, is

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Foxconn, India’s star recruit for semiconductor manufacturing, quits 11/07/2023 at 09:33 By Laura Dobberstein Departure won’t hurt a bit, insists IT minister, as JV partner presses ahead Taiwanese tech manufacturer Hon Hai Technology Group, aka Foxconn, said on Monday it is withdrawing from a $19.5 million semiconductor and display manufacturing joint venture with Indian mining

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Sega COO backs away from blockchain 11/07/2023 at 08:33 By Simon Sharwood Sonic the Hedgehog unsure NFTs are golden rings worth collecting Sega’s co-COO Shuji Utsumi has said the Japanese gaming giant still hasn’t figured out what blockchain is good for, and may not make it part of a flagship “supergame” slated for a 2026

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Apple Issues Urgent Patch for Zero-Day Flaw Targeting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari 11/07/2023 at 08:05 By Apple has released Rapid Security Response updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The WebKit bug, cataloged as CVE-2023-37450, could allow threat actors to achieve arbitrary

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China striving to be first source of artificial general intelligence, says think tank 11/07/2023 at 07:34 By Simon Sharwood The work is hard to spot – which is bad for science, but good for paranoia Chinese researchers published 850 papers pertaining to artificial general intelligence (AGI) between 2018 and 2022, indicating Beijing’s efforts to create

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Preventing retail theft and protecting employees 11/07/2023 at 07:20 By Apprehending shoplifters while keeping employees safe. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Product spotlight on video surveillance 11/07/2023 at 07:20 By Security magazine highlights different video surveillance solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI) technology for enhanced video management.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Almost all classic US video games ‘critically endangered’ 11/07/2023 at 06:07 By Iain Thomson Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, says history foundation Many of the games released in the USA that we grew up with and love are out of print, which is a bummer for those

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Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency 11/07/2023 at 04:03 By Thomas Claburn How open-source tech can be quietly manipulated to mess up apps French outfit Mithril Security has managed to poison a large language model (LLM) and have made it available to developers to prove a

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