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Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don’t think so 2024-12-03 at 18:20 By Richard Speed Microsoft marketing skewered by X platform users… and its own chatbot Opinion  Microsoft’s recent post on X that Copilot+ PCs are “the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever” is being rebuffed by the platform’s context […]

Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake 2024-12-03 at 16:50 By Lindsay Clark CEO’s severance pales in comparison to Musk’s billion-dollar Tesla battle Outgoing Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger is set to receive severance pay of around $9.7 million following his departure from the chip giant.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Cisco Warns of Exploitation of Decade-Old ASA WebVPN Vulnerability 2024-12-03 at 16:01 By Cisco on Monday updated an advisory to warn customers of active exploitation of a decade-old security flaw impacting its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2014-2120 (CVSS score: 4.3), concerns a case of insufficient input validation in ASA’s WebVPN login

$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it’s made of Lego 2024-12-03 at 15:19 By Dan Robinson What to buy the techie who has everything? If you thought $373 million was a little bit beyond your budget to get your hands on the latest chipmaking machines, ASML will let you have one for just

Severity of the risk facing the UK is widely underestimated, NCSC annual review warns 2024-12-03 at 14:01 By Connor Jones National cyber emergencies increased threefold this year The number of security threats in the UK that hit the country’s National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) maximum severity threshold has tripled compared to the previous 12 months.…

NachoVPN Tool Exploits Flaws in Popular VPN Clients for System Compromise 2024-12-03 at 13:03 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of flaws impacting Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall virtual private network (VPN) clients that could be potentially exploited to gain remote code execution on Windows and macOS systems. “By targeting the implicit trust VPN

North Korean Kimsuky Hackers Use Russian Email Addresses for Credential Theft Attacks 2024-12-03 at 12:03 By The North Korea-aligned threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a series of phishing attacks that involve sending email messages that originate from Russian sender addresses to ultimately conduct credential theft. “Phishing emails were sent mainly through

Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco 2024-12-03 at 11:33 By Lindsay Clark Stability essential ahead of Christmas trading amid ongoing Walmart divorce The UK’s third-largest retailer has accelerated plans for a system freeze during the busy Christmas period as it grapples with a long-running tech divorce from its previous owner.…

SmokeLoader attack targets organizations in Taiwan 2024-12-03 at 11:05 By Research shows an observed attack deploying the SmokeLoader malware to target organizations in Tawian.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

GitHub’s boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged 2024-12-03 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn We’re shocked – shocked – that Microsoft’s study of its own tools might not be super-rigorous GitHub’s claim that the quality of programming code written with its Copilot AI model is “significantly more functional, readable, reliable, maintainable, and concise,” has been

Russia gives life sentence to Hydra dark web kingpin after seizing a ton of drugs 2024-12-03 at 09:34 By Iain Thomson No exaggeration – literally a ton. Plus, 15 co-conspirators also put behind bars A Russian court has handed a life sentence to the head of the infamous online drugs souk Hydra, and 15 of

GenAI comes for jobs once considered ‘safe’ from automation 2024-12-03 at 08:34 By Laura Dobberstein Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affected Jobs in geographical areas and scope once thought to be at low risk of automation are soon to be the most affected by generative AI, according to the Organization for

Horns&Hooves Campaign Delivers RATs via Fake Emails and JavaScript Payloads 2024-12-03 at 08:15 By A newly discovered malware campaign has been found to target private users, retailers, and service businesses mainly located in Russia to deliver NetSupport RAT and BurnsRAT. The campaign, dubbed Horns&Hooves by Kaspersky, has hit more than 1,000 victims since it began

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded 2024-12-03 at 07:08 By Laura Dobberstein Burst water pipe blots out the Sun – but or at least its data Servers that store data collected by two NASA solar observation satellites are down – and the space agency doesn’t know when they’ll resume operations – after a four-inch chilled

Study finds crime is causing retail workers to search for new roles 2024-12-03 at 07:07 By A recent study has shown that crime is causing retail employees to search for new employment opportunities.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Data on 760K workers from Xerox, Nokia, BofA, Morgan Stanley and more dumped online 2024-12-03 at 05:01 By Jessica Lyons Yet another result of the MOVEit mess Hundreds of thousands of employees from major corporations including Xerox, Nokia, Koch, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and others appear to be the latest victims in a massive

AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month 2024-12-03 at 03:34 By Jessica Lyons Tap into the infinite scalability… of pricing Re:Invent  Amazon Web Services has a new incident response service that combines automation and people to protect customers’ AWS accounts – at a hefty price.… This article is an excerpt

Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators 2024-12-03 at 02:50 By Tobias Mann 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist The Biden administration has announced restrictions limiting the export of memory critical to the production of AI accelerators and banning sales to more than a hundred entities.… This

Employee sues Apple over ‘spying’ claims tied to mandatory devices 2024-12-03 at 01:54 By Iain Thomson Cupertino’s walled garden ‘is a prison yard’ claims plaintiff Suing your employer while remaining employed is a risky play, but one Apple ad tech manager is trying it – claiming that the iGiant is forcing staff to expose their