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Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues 2025-01-30 at 14:21 By Connor Jones Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org’s report The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of the canvassing apps […]

A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles 2025-01-30 at 13:18 By Lindsay Clark Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing A new approach to materials engineering promises to overcome the limitation of capacitors commonly used in smartphones, displays and electric vehicles, according to a study published in Nature.… […]

SOC Analysts – Reimagining Their Role Using AI 2025-01-30 at 13:18 By The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are doubling as SecOps) must try and triage thousands of security alerts—often false positives—just to identify a handful of […]

DeepSeek AI Database Exposed: Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked 2025-01-30 at 13:18 By Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data. […]

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff 2025-01-30 at 12:33 By Connor Jones Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers’ productivity.… This article is an excerpt from […]

190M impacted by Change Healthcare breach, security leaders discuss 2025-01-30 at 12:04 By  Security leaders discuss an update from Change Healthcare.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Startup plugs AI datacenters into biogas-powered energy 2025-01-30 at 11:34 By Dan Robinson Sidestepping the grid led to 44% cheaper electricity and 70% fewer emissions, CEO says A UK datacenter startup realized it could have to wait until the late 2030s for power grid connection dates, and has instead turned to modular facilities located at […]

Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK 2025-01-30 at 10:34 By Thomas Claburn Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims Amazon and its advertising subsidiary have been sued for allegedly collecting personal and location data from third-party mobile apps without obtaining users’ informed consent.… This article […]

And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples 2025-01-30 at 09:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have found something remarkable: Despite being a cold, lifeless rubble pile that formed […]

New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks 2025-01-30 at 09:48 By A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting Mitel phones in order to ensnare them into a network capable of mounting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The vulnerability in question is […]

Unpatched PHP Voyager Flaws Leave Servers Open to One-Click RCE Exploits 2025-01-30 at 09:48 By Three security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source PHP package Voyager that could be exploited by an attacker to achieve one-click remote code execution on affected instances. “When an authenticated Voyager user clicks on a malicious link, attackers can […]

Vulnerability management simplified: The core essentials 2025-01-30 at 07:03 By In light of today’s evolving threat landscape and high-profile cybersecurity breaches, organizations are facing growing pressure to strengthen their security foundations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

DeepSeek’s not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba? 2025-01-30 at 05:18 By Tobias Mann Qwen 2.5 Max tops both DS V3 and GPT-4o, cloud giant claims Analysis  The speed and efficiency at which DeepSeek claims to be training large language models (LLMs) competitive with America’s best has […]

Mark Zuckerberg reveals thoughts on DeepSeek as Meta’s AI spending under scrutiny 2025-01-30 at 03:30 By Reuters Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of its latest AI models triggered a selloff in global tech stocks this week on concerns about rising AI costs in the US. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York […]

Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout 2025-01-30 at 03:30 By Iain Thomson Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month Graphics tablet maker Wacom has warned customers their credit card details may well have been stolen by miscreants while they were buying stuff from its website.… […]

Tesla sales disappoint, but Elon Musk vows new cars ‘will be in the wild, with no one in them’ 2025-01-30 at 02:48 By Reuters Tesla’s driver assistance software, known as full self-driving, or FSD, will see unsupervised tests in Texas, California and other states this year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News […]

Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek 2025-01-30 at 02:48 By Thomas Claburn Oh someone’s in DeepShi… China-based AI biz DeepSeek may have developed competitive, cost-efficient generative models, but its cybersecurity chops are another story.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Lazarus Group cloned open source projects to plant backdoors, steal credentials 2025-01-30 at 01:45 By Jessica Lyons Stealing crypto is so 2024. Supply-chain attacks leading to data exfil pays off better? North Korea’s Lazarus Group compromised hundreds of victims across the globe in a massive secret-stealing supply chain attack that was ongoing as of earlier […]

Meta agrees to pay $25M to settle lawsuit from Trump after Jan. 6 suspension 2025-01-30 at 01:31 By Associated Press Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product […]

Helion bags $425M in fresh funding despite fusion power still being a distant dream 2025-01-30 at 00:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B Fusion energy startup Helion has yet to prove it can generate electricity, but that hasn’t stopped investors from dumping another $425 million into the venture.… This article is an […]