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Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal 2024-06-27 at 20:31 By Matthew Connatser Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Nokia is planning to sell off its undersea internet cable business unit to France.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

AI query optimization in IBM’s Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks 2024-06-27 at 19:47 By Lindsay Clark The database Big Blue doesn’t like to talk about gets makeover in November IBM likes to be secretive about Db2, the 41-year-old database still used by some of the world’s largest banks and retailers,

Fortifying the software supply chain: A crucial security practice 2024-06-27 at 19:16 By The software supply chain is the backbone of software development. However, the very interconnectedness that makes it efficient also renders it vulnerable to escalating cyber threats. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Perseverance pays off as Mars rover’s SHERLOC brought back from the brink 2024-06-27 at 18:46 By Richard Speed Bot’s arm used to free instrument’s dust cover and return to science NASA engineers have performed another remarkable feat of remote debugging and restored the SHERLOC instrument of the Perseverance Mars rover to operation.… This article is

Rust-Based P2PInfect Botnet Evolves with Miner and Ransomware Payloads 2024-06-27 at 17:46 By The peer-to-peer malware botnet known as P2PInfect has been found targeting misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners. The development marks the threat’s transition from what appeared to be a dormant botnet with unclear motives to a financially motivated operation. “With

Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters 2024-06-27 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Intel has demonstrated an optical chiplet co-packaged with a CPU capable of supporting 4 Tbps data links to feed the increasing datacenter bandwidth requirements of AI and high performance computing (HPC)

US lawmakers wave red flags over Chinese drone dominance 2024-06-27 at 16:56 By Laura Dobberstein Congressman warns tech is getting the ‘Huawei Playbook’ treatment US Congress members warned against Chinese dominance of the drone industry on Wednesday, elevating the threat posed by Beijing’s control of the technology as similar to that of semiconductors and ships.…

Anthropic tries ‘to enable beneficial uses’ of AI by government agencies 2024-06-27 at 15:41 By Thomas Claburn Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking Anthropic wants governments to think of it when they want AI to make the world a better place. No, seriously.… This article is an excerpt from The

Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks 2024-06-27 at 15:21 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt

The Secrets of Hidden AI Training on Your Data 2024-06-27 at 15:21 By While some SaaS threats are clear and visible, others are hidden in plain sight, both posing significant risks to your organization. Wing’s research indicates that an astounding 99.7% of organizations utilize applications embedded with AI functionalities. These AI-driven tools are indispensable, providing

Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks 2024-06-27 at 15:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder 2024-06-27 at 14:46 By Richard Speed Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302 Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Atos’s UK auditor raises ‘material uncertainty’ about future 2024-06-27 at 14:06 By Paul Kunert Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern The UK wing of Atos, the ailing IT services provider that has scored billions of pounds in government contracts locally, has pointed to a “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue

How to Use Python to Build Secure Blockchain Applications 2024-06-27 at 13:31 By Did you know it’s now possible to build blockchain applications, known also as decentralized applications (or “dApps” for short) in native Python? Blockchain development has traditionally required learning specialized languages, creating a barrier for many developers… until now. AlgoKit, an all-in-one development

Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA’s approval, for a fee 2024-06-27 at 12:46 By Simon Sharwood SpaceX wins contract for ‘deorbit vehicle’ at a pleasing price Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a NASA contract to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks 2024-06-27 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt

How many Microsoft missteps were forks that were just a bit of fun? 2024-06-27 at 11:36 By Richard Speed Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has dropped another nugget of Microspeak – the “fun fork.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Russian National Indicted for Cyber Attacks on Ukraine Before 2022 Invasion 2024-06-27 at 11:36 By A 22-year-old Russian national has been indicted in the U.S. for his alleged role in staging destructive cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies in the days leading to Russia’s full-blown military invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Amin Timovich

Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers 2024-06-27 at 10:56 By Tobias Mann Pay up or go away, pretty please? For many Reddit has become the go to repository of community and crowdsourced knowledge, a fact that has no doubt made it a prime target for AI

Critical SQLi Vulnerability Found in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow Application 2024-06-27 at 10:36 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow that, if left unpatched, could allow an attacker to tamper with the application database. Tracked as CVE-2024-5276, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. It impacts FileCatalyst Workflow versions 5.1.6