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Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group’s Stealthy Tactics Exposed 2024-05-23 at 14:31 By Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic Specter since at least late 2022. “An analysis of this threat actor’s […]

Are Your SaaS Backups as Secure as Your Production Data? 2024-05-23 at 14:31 By Conversations about data security tend to diverge into three main threads: How can we protect the data we store on our on-premises or cloud infrastructure? What strategies and tools or platforms can reliably backup and restore data? What would losing all

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds 2024-05-23 at 14:16 By Richard Speed Alternatively, true AGI has been reached, and the machines decided to delete themselves Parts of Microsoft’s Bing are still offline in Europe after it fell over earlier this morning, taking down Copilot and anything else that depends on the search service’s API.…

GNU Compiler Collection 15 ushers Xeon Phi and Solaris 11.3 to silicon heaven 2024-05-23 at 13:16 By Liam Proven Remember Intel’s ‘Larrabee’ many-core Pentium-based GPU? GCC doesn’t After dropping Itanium support, GCC 15 is set to kill off more ancient platforms, with the Xeon Phi facing the firing squad alongside the penultimate version of Solaris.…

Council fumbles Oracle Fusion launch, leaving SAP to die another day 2024-05-23 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark More than four years after procurement began, authority has no go-live date East Sussex County Council is conducting “a further health check of the system and programme” after it failed to go live with Oracle Fusion, its replacement

Ivanti Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws in Endpoint Manager 2024-05-23 at 12:47 By Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. Six of the 10 vulnerabilities – from CVE-2024-29822 through CVE-2024-29827 (CVSS scores: 9.6) – relate

TR-069, a protocol that made broadband manageable, turns 20. What’s coming next? 2024-05-23 at 12:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo In less than 13 minutes, we’ll get you up to speed on USP Interview  Technical report 69, or TR-069, which defines how people’s broadband routers and other customer-premises equipment can be remotely provisioned and managed by ISPs

UK data watchdog wants six figures from N Ireland cops after 2023 data leak 2024-05-23 at 11:46 By Connor Jones Massive discount applied to save cop shop’s helicopter budget Following a data leak that brought “tangible fear of threat to life”, the UK’s data protection watchdog says it intends to fine the Police Service of

I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug 2024-05-23 at 10:31 By Mark Pesce Models with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored? Feature  Imagine a brand new and nearly completely untested technology, capable of crashing at any moment

How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe 2024-05-23 at 09:51 By Thomas Claburn SpaceX is smart on this, Cupertino and GL.iNet not so much In-depth  Academics have suggested that Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can be abused to create a global privacy nightmare.… This article is an excerpt

Would you buy Pegasus spyware from this scammer? 2024-05-23 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein You shouldn’t – Indian infosec researchers warn you’ll get random junk instead Indian infosec firm CloudSEK warned on Wednesday that scammers are selling counterfeit code advertised as the NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

The End of an Era: Microsoft Phases Out VBScript for JavaScript and PowerShell 2024-05-23 at 08:46 By Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. “Technology has advanced over the years, giving rise to

Read AI about it… OpenAI does deal with News Corp 2024-05-23 at 08:31 By Thomas Claburn Pact made with WSJ, New York Post, Sunday Times, Australian publisher as lawsuit bullets ping around the industry OpenAI and News Corp on Wednesday announced a partnership that will bring the publisher’s output to the super-lab’s models, marking yet

China creates LLM trained to discuss Xi Jinping’s philosophies 2024-05-23 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood What next? Kim-Jong-AI? Don’t laugh – Nvidia has pondered rebuilding a digital Napoleon China’s Cyberspace Research Institute has revealed it’s created a large language model and conversational AI based on the philosophies of president Xi Jinping.… This article is an

New rules prompt 93% of organizations to rethink cybersecurity plans 2024-05-23 at 07:16 By A new report examines how security budgets and compliance strategies are impacted by the shifting regulatory landscape. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

‘China-aligned’ spyware slingers operating since 2018 unmasked at last 2024-05-23 at 07:01 By Matthew Connatser Unfading Sea Haze adept at staying under the radar Bitdefender says it has tracked down and exposed an online gang that has been operating since 2018 nearly without a trace – and likely working for Chinese interests.… This article is

Lawmakers advance bill to tighten White House grip on AI model exports 2024-05-23 at 03:22 By Tobias Mann Vague ML definitions subject to change – yeah, great The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to advance a law bill expanding the White House’s authority to police exports of AI systems – including models said to

Microsoft invites punters to test drive custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU VMs in Azure 2024-05-23 at 02:46 By Matthew Connatser Subscribers in US, Europe, SEA can take silicon out for a spin for free Microsoft is bringing its custom-designed Arm-based Cobalt 100 processors closer to the public as it is now demoing the chips in

FCC boss wants political ads to admit when they were made using AI 2024-05-23 at 01:47 By Matthew Connatser How about just flag up the adverts not using machine learning The Federal Communications Commission is considering a proposal that would require US political ads to disclose their usage of AI technology.… This article is an

Go after UnitedHealth, not us, 100+ medical groups urge Uncle Sam 2024-05-23 at 01:16 By Jessica Lyons Why should we get its paperwork? More than 100 medical industry groups have asked the Feds to make UnitedHealth Group, not them, go through the rigmarole of notifying everyone about the Change Healthcare ransomware infection.… This article is