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Lawyers say US cybersecurity law too ambiguous to protect AI security researchers 2024-08-09 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Been injecting prompts to test the safety of large language models? Better call Saul black hat  Existing US laws tackling those illegally breaking computer systems don’t accommodate modern large language models (LLMs) and can open researchers up […]

Delta: CrowdStrike’s offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late 2024-08-09 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons Airline unimpressed with ‘unhelpful and untimely’ phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue Delta Air Lines has come out swinging at CrowdStrike in a letter accusing the security giant of trying to “shift the

Intel’s legal trouble mounts after stock plunge kicks off yet another court battle 2024-08-09 at 00:46 By Tobias Mann Pension fund claims CEO, CFO covered up truth about money-pit foundry unit Over the past few weeks, Intel has found itself in a mess of legal trouble over everything from CPUs that slowly fry themselves to

US ‘laptop farm’ man accused of outsourcing his IT jobs to North Koreans to raise funds for weapons 2024-08-09 at 00:01 By Matthew Connatser American and Brit firms thought they were employing a Westerner, but not so, it’s alleged The FBI today arrested a Tennessee man suspected of running a “laptop farm” that got North

Intel finally has a new GPU – for cars 2024-08-08 at 22:47 By Matthew Connatser Chipzilla takes its Arc Alchemist A750, gives it some more RAM, and says it’s for AI-powered jalopies Intel has finally got around to launching a new GPU – except it’s a reskin of a graphics processor already on the market,

If you give Copilot the reins, don’t be surprised when it spills your secrets 2024-08-08 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘All of the defaults are insecure’ Zenity CTO warns Black Hat  One hopes widely used enterprise software is secure. Get ready for those hopes to be dashed again, as Zenity CTO Michael Bargury today revealed

Cloud growth puts hyperscalers on track to take up 60% of datacenter capacity by 2029 2024-08-08 at 21:31 By Dan Robinson Enterprises used to spend more on own kit than cloud infra services… now it’s the other way around Hyperscalers are forcecast to account for more than 60 percent of datacenter space by 2029, a

Raptor Lake microcode patch arrives for Intel motherboards this month, ASUS and MSI say 2024-08-08 at 20:17 By Matthew Connatser MSI even claims all of its LGA 1700 motherboards will get updated before month end Two of Intel’s biggest motherboard partners say their users will start receiving new BIOS updates containing the crucial microcode patch

Security leaders respond to Olympic venue ransomware attack 2024-08-08 at 19:16 By The Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris experienced a ransomware attack, and security leaders are sharing their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

University Professors Targeted by North Korean Cyber Espionage Group 2024-08-08 at 19:16 By The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting university staff, researchers, and professors for intelligence gathering purposes. Cybersecurity firm Resilience said it identified the activity in late July 2024 after it observed

80 years ago, IBM gave Harvard University one of the world’s earliest computers 2024-08-08 at 19:01 By Richard Speed In celebration of US Navy funded electromagnetic wonder that is the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator Feature  Eighty years ago, IBM presented Harvard University with one of the world’s earliest computers: the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC),

FTC approves lawsuit against TikTok for violating COPPA 2024-08-08 at 18:31 By On behalf of the FTC, the Department of Justice sued video-sharing platform TikTok with violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

6 Ways Application Control Benefits You 2024-08-08 at 18:16 By Alisha Smith Establishing a positive security model for application control This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 lands with (drum roll) RISC-V cores 2024-08-08 at 18:02 By Richard Speed Beefier Arms next to RV rival CPUs, offering a glimpse of the future It’s exciting news for RISC-V fans: Raspberry Pi is adding support for the open ISA with the launch of the Pico 2 and the company’s new

China’s preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0 2024-08-08 at 17:47 By Simon Sharwood Middle Kingdom netizens can look forward to the same kind of letdown Windows users get with Copilot Developers behind openKylin, the desktop Linux distro backed by China’s National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, have decided local

0.0.0.0 Day: 18-Year-Old Browser Vulnerability Impacts MacOS and Linux Devices 2024-08-08 at 17:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new “0.0.0.0 Day” impacting all major web browsers that malicious websites could take advantage of to breach local networks. The critical vulnerability “exposes a fundamental flaw in how browsers handle network requests, potentially granting malicious actors

Using 1Password on Mac? Patch up if you don’t want your Vaults raided 2024-08-08 at 17:01 By Connor Jones Hundreds of thousands of users potentially vulnerable Password manager 1Password is warning that all Mac users running versions before 8.10.36 are vulnerable to a bug that allows attackers to steal vault items.… This article is an

US elections have never been more secure, says CISA chief 2024-08-08 at 16:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Election tech is fine – it’s all thise idiots buying into the propaganda that’s worrying Jen Easterly Black Hat  US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Jen Easterly and her counterparts from the UK and EU want the

Anaconda puts the squeeze on data scientists deemed to be terms-of-service violators 2024-08-08 at 15:31 By Thomas Claburn Academic, non-profit organizations now being told to pay up – or else Four years after data science biz Anaconda revised its terms of service, some research and academic organizations are just now finding out they have to