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New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency to Spy on Users’ Web Activities 2024-06-28 at 13:46 By A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user’s web activity. “SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck present on all Internet […]

OpenAI, Google ink deals to augment AI efforts with news – it was Time for better sources 2024-06-28 at 13:31 By Tobias Mann Tech giants can’t play the RAG-time blues until they pay their dues – in this case to quality publishers OpenAI and Google on Thursday independently announced fresh collaborations with major publishers as

AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload 2024-06-28 at 12:47 By Dan Robinson Cooling tech left to sweat the details AI is currently the big driver in datacenter investment and will push capital expenditure on the facilities up by nearly 30 percent this year, and is also on track

Windows: Insecure by design 2024-06-28 at 11:46 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Get your hands off my computer, Microsoft! Opinion  I’ve been pointing out Windows security bugs since Windows for Workgroups showed up in 1992 and I showed how you could steal data from your coworker’s spreadsheets using Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). You’d think Microsoft

Researchers Warn of Flaws in Widely Used Industrial Gas Analysis Equipment 2024-06-28 at 11:31 By Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in Emerson Rosemount gas chromatographs that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive information, induce a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and even execute arbitrary commands. The flaws impact GC370XA, GC700XA, and GC1500XA and

‘Skeleton Key’ attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft 2024-06-28 at 09:47 By Thomas Claburn Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key – a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful

TeamViewer Detects Security Breach in Corporate IT Environment 2024-06-28 at 09:31 By TeamViewer on Thursday disclosed it detected an “irregularity” in its internal corporate IT environment on June 26, 2024. “We immediately activated our response team and procedures, started investigations together with a team of globally renowned cyber security experts and implemented necessary remediation measures,”

OpenAI develops AI model to critique its AI models 2024-06-28 at 08:51 By Thomas Claburn When your chatbots outshine their human trainers, you could pay for expertise … or just augment your crowdsourced workforce To help catch code errors made by ChatGPT, OpenAI uses human AI trainers in the hope of improving the model. To

Infosys CEO to pay a whole $30K in penance for non-disclosure that enabled insider trading 2024-06-28 at 08:51 By Laura Dobberstein Staff were told of lucrative partnership before the rest of us Infosys CEO Salil Parekh has agreed to pay a fine of ₹25 lakh ($30,000) for failing to implement adequate insider trading controls, according

ISS ‘nauts told to duck and cover after dead Russian sat sprays space junk 2024-06-28 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood This has happened before after Moscow made a mess with a missile Astronauts on the International Space Station were told to duck and cover on Thursday after a Russian satellite broke up.… This article is

Will decentralized identity unlock the future of identity protection? 2024-06-28 at 07:16 By Decentralized identity is fast becoming a strategic approach to respond to security and identity fraud challenges.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

How to close the widening AI and cybersecurity skills gap 2024-06-28 at 07:16 By With so many emerging cybersecurity threats, it can be easy to forget about a notable, growing cybersecurity concern: the talent gap. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Polyfill.io owner punches back at ‘malicious defamation’ amid domain shutdown 2024-06-28 at 07:01 By Jessica Lyons No supply-chain attacks to see over here! After having its website shut down, the polyfill.io owner is fighting back against claims it smuggled suspicious code onto websites all across the internet.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, heart doctors say 2024-06-28 at 05:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Normally it’s the iGiant’s prices that give the ol’ ticker a hard time A quartet of heart doctors are trying to resuscitate heart monitoring tech outfit AliveCor’s antitrust lawsuit regarding the Apple Watch, by arguing changes made to the

TeamViewer can’t bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened 2024-06-28 at 03:47 By Jessica Lyons Says customer data, prod environment not affected as NCC sounds alarm TeamViewer on Thursday said its security team just “detected an irregularity” within one of its networks, which is a fancy way of saying

Appeals court reanimates lawsuit accusing Meta of discriminating against citizens 2024-06-28 at 00:16 By Matthew Connatser Software techie says he was snubbed because he wasn’t on an H-1B Meta is headed for a legal showdown after judges ruled a discrimination case shouldn’t have been dismissed and can go to trial.… This article is an excerpt

FCC wants telcos to carrier unlock all devices after 60 days 2024-06-27 at 23:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Should you stay or should you go now? If Rosenworcel gets her way, there won’t be trouble Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock

‘One Less Car’ Uber bets a grand you’ll ditch your wheels 2024-06-27 at 23:01 By Matthew Connatser Taxi app wants to prove it itself is cheaper, greener than owning a motor Comment  Uber is launching a month-long trial dubbed the “One Less Car” challenge to demonstrate people are better off using its app-hailed rides rather

Engineers risk blasting US missile defense to smithereens, say auditors 2024-06-27 at 22:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Now the 2028 deadline is at risk Engineers at the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) continue to ignore concerns about their next-generation missile interceptors, leaving serious technical shortcomings on the table and threatening the program’s 2028 deadline.… This article

Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages 2024-06-27 at 21:46 By Matthew Connatser Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US are today experiencing international roaming outages, leaving at least some American subscribers unable to use their phones as they expect while