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Mars is slam-dunked by hundreds of basketball-sized meteorites every year 2024-06-29 at 10:31 By Matthew Connatser Impact studies crucial for accurately determining Red Planet’s age Seismic data from Mars indicates that our neighboring planet is hit about three hundred times a year by meteorites the size of basketballs.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay 2024-06-29 at 03:46 By Matthew Connatser Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz…. Poll  OpenAI’s ChatGPT fell for an inaccurate claim that Thursday night’s US presidential debate between Trump and Biden on CNN would have a one to two-minute

Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is ‘freeware’ fodder for training models 2024-06-29 at 02:46 By Thomas Claburn Unless you’ve got a lawyer that is Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said this week that machine-learning companies can scrape most content published online and use it to train neural networks because it’s essentially

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years 2024-06-29 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though Interest in electric vehicles has waned slightly among US motorists for the first time since 2020 says Pew Research, with only three out of

CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust? 2024-06-29 at 00:01 By Thomas Claburn So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and so many unsafe dependencies The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open

FTC finds that government impersonation scam payments doubled in 2023 2024-06-28 at 22:46 By New Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data reveals that government impersonation scammers are targeting consumers for payments in cash. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network 2024-06-28 at 22:17 By Chris Williams Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? TeamViewer says it was Russian intelligence that broke into its systems this week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Amazon’s Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch 2024-06-28 at 20:46 By Richard Speed Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025 The first full-scale mission of Amazon’s Project Kuiper has slipped to the end of 2024, a year after the company finally got its prototype satellites into orbit.…

Bill Gates says not to worry about AI’s energy draw, technology will adapt 2024-06-28 at 19:47 By Dan Robinson So that’s fine then Bill Gates says the massive power draw required for AI processing is nothing to worry about as AI will ultimately identify ways to help cut power consumption and drive the transition to

Kimsuky Using TRANSLATEXT Chrome Extension to Steal Sensitive Data 2024-06-28 at 19:46 By The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to the use of a new malicious Google Chrome extension that’s designed to steal sensitive information as part of an ongoing intelligence collection effort. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in

NASA tests the ups and downs of air taxi comfort with VR 2024-06-28 at 18:46 By Matthew Connatser Nobody would want a roller coaster ride in one of these long-promised flying cabs NASA is testing what makes air taxi passengers comfortable – and uncomfortable – with a custom VR simulation rig.… This article is an

GitLab Releases Patch for Critical CI/CD Pipeline Vulnerability and 13 Others 2024-06-28 at 17:46 By GitLab has released security updates to address 14 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited to run continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as any user. The weaknesses, which affect GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise

Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues 2024-06-28 at 17:32 By Connor Jones Move comes weeks after Mozilla blasted certificate authority for failings Google is severing its trust in Entrust after what it describes as a protracted period of failures around compliance and general improvements.… This article is an excerpt from The

Microsoft hits snooze again on security certificate renewal 2024-06-28 at 16:31 By Richard Speed Seeing weird warnings in Microsoft 365 and Office Online? That’ll be why Microsoft has expiration issues with its TLS certificates, resulting in unwanted security warnings.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal 2024-06-28 at 15:46 By Lindsay Clark Horizon system expert denied tailoring evidence in convictions later quashed Gareth Jenkins, former distinguished engineer at Fujitsu Services Ltd, said he “clearly got trapped into doing things that I shouldn’t have done” when giving technical evidence that led

Active shooter preparedness: What’s being omitted in training? 2024-06-28 at 15:21 By Any variation of the Run Hide Fight training for civilian active shooter training continues to prove highly valuable. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

A collaborative approach to neighborhood safety 2024-06-28 at 15:21 By Collaboration between public and private sectors is often one of the biggest opportunities to enhance community safety, including video surveillance. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Combatting the Evolving SaaS Kill Chain: How to Stay Ahead of Threat Actors 2024-06-28 at 15:21 By The modern kill chain is eluding enterprises because they aren’t protecting the infrastructure of modern business: SaaS.  SaaS continues to dominate software adoption, and it accounts for the greatest share of public cloud spending. But enterprises and SMBs

8220 Gang Exploits Oracle WebLogic Server Flaws for Cryptocurrency Mining 2024-06-28 at 15:21 By Security researchers have shed more light on the cryptocurrency mining operation conducted by the 8220 Gang by exploiting known security flaws in the Oracle WebLogic Server. “The threat actor employs fileless execution techniques, using DLL reflective and process injection, allowing the

Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B 2024-06-28 at 14:46 By Dan Robinson Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America Nokia is set to buy optical networking biz Infinera in a $2.3 billion transaction, the companies have confirmed.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source