Uncategorized

RansomHub-linked EDR-killing malware spotted in the wild 2024-08-19 at 05:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also: Your external-facing NetSuite sites need a review; five popular malware varieties for Q2, and more in brief  Malware that kills endpoint detection and response (EDR) software has been spotted on the scene and, given it’s deploying RansomHub, it could soon be […]

Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home 2024-08-18 at 20:46 By Tobias Mann Here’s how to get started with the open source tool Continue Hands-on  Code assistants have gained considerable attention as an early use case for generative AI – especially following the launch of Microsoft’s GitHub

Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2 2024-08-17 at 12:31 By Richard Speed Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy Purveyor of optics Beaverlab has unveiled its an inexpensive telescope for wannabe star-gazers: the Finder TW2.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store 2024-08-17 at 10:16 By Thomas Claburn But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue Epic Games, booted from Apple’s walled garden four years ago for crimes against App Store policy, has built its

OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda 2024-08-17 at 10:16 By OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. “This week

DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense 2024-08-17 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Officials claim it’ll be able to develop defensive solutions in ‘days, if not hours’ The Pentagon’s newest toy isn’t a fancy warfighting machine – it’s a combined supercomputer and rapid response laboratory (RRL) dedicated to beefing up the US’s biodefenses.… This

California trims AI safety bill amid fears of tech exodus 2024-08-17 at 00:31 By Thomas Claburn And as Anthropic CEO reckons there’s ‘a good chance … we’ll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things’ Legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) software in California has been revised in response

After nearly 3B personal records leak online, Florida data broker confirms it was ransacked by cyber-thieves 2024-08-16 at 23:49 By Chris Williams Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there A Florida firm has all but confirmed that millions of people’s sensitive personal info was stolen from it by cybercriminals and publicly leaked.… This

Texas Instruments calculates its US CHIPS Act winnings at $1.6B 2024-08-16 at 23:49 By Tobias Mann Another $3B in loans also on the table to support $18B foundry enlargement Texas Instruments is set to receive up to $1.6 billion and as much as $3 billion in loans from good-old Uncle Sam under the CHIPS and

Unicoin hints at potential data meddling after G-Suite compromise 2024-08-16 at 22:48 By Connor Jones Attacker locked out all staff for four days The cryptocurrency offshoot of reality TV and entrepreneurship show Unicorn Hunters has confirmed that an unknown attacker compromised its G-Suite, locking all staff out of their accounts.… This article is an excerpt

Windows 11 Insider preview brings new Sandbox features and fatter FAT32 2024-08-16 at 20:01 By Richard Speed Arrives in the Canary Channel and updated via the Microsoft Store Build 27686 of Windows 11 is out for Canary Channel Windows Insiders including the Sandbox Client preview, a fix for a potentially alarming registry issue and a

Attackers Exploit Public .env Files to Breach Cloud and Social Media Accounts 2024-08-16 at 19:46 By A large-scale extortion campaign has compromised various organizations by taking advantage of publicly accessible environment variable files (.env) that contain credentials associated with cloud and social media applications. “Multiple security missteps were present in the course of this campaign,

Preparing for cybersecurity challenges: Ensuring a safe school year 2024-08-16 at 19:16 By By proactively taking certain security measures, security teams can fortify their digital infrastructure and ensure a safer school environment year-round. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Shots fired as AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to block Starlink’s direct-to-cell plans 2024-08-16 at 18:31 By Dan Robinson Rivals claim signal waiver would interfere with terrestrial networks Starlink’s rivals in the satellite phone service race are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject its request for a waiver relating to out-of-band emission limits