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UK law gives green light to self-driving cars from 2026 2024-05-22 at 15:02 By Richard Speed Underground tunnel testing now available for autonomous vehicles Self-driving vehicles could be on British roads by 2026, following the Automated Vehicles Act becoming law this week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Virtual Event Today: Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) Summit 2024-05-22 at 14:46 By SecurityWeek News SecurityWeek’s Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) Summit takes place on Wednesday, May 22nd as a fully immersive virtual summit. The post Virtual Event Today: Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) Summit appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

LockBit dethroned as leading ransomware gang for first time post-takedown 2024-05-22 at 14:16 By Connor Jones Rivals ready to swoop in but drop in overall attacks illustrates LockBit’s influence The takedown of LockBit in February is starting to bear fruit for rival gangs with Play overtaking it after an eight-month period of LockBit topping the

The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management Checklist, 2025 Edition 2024-05-22 at 13:46 By Since the first edition of The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Checklist was released three years ago, the corporate SaaS sprawl has been growing at a double-digit pace. In large enterprises, the number of SaaS applications in use today is in the hundreds,

IBM packages its Power cloud into ‘pods’ that run on-prem 2024-05-22 at 13:32 By Simon Sharwood Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years IBM has decided the time is right to bring its Power-powered cloud on-prem.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

GHOSTENGINE Exploits Vulnerable Drivers to Disable EDRs in Cryptojacking Attack 2024-05-22 at 12:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that employs vulnerable drivers to disable known security solutions (EDRs) and thwart detection in what’s called a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack. Elastic Security Labs is tracking the campaign under the name REF4578

Logitech MeetUp 2 boasts obligatory AI and a price tag to match 2024-05-22 at 12:31 By Richard Speed Yay, meeting room technology Logitech has unveiled a follow-up to 2017’s MeetUp camera with the creatively named MeetUp 2, alongside a room booking solution.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Microsoft Build 2024 looks like it’s more about AI fluff than developer stuff 2024-05-22 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Windows? We’re the Copilot company now Comment  Microsoft’s Build 2024 conference is getting under way in Seattle. As the Copilot company makes a multitude of AI announcements, one question seems pertinent: Is Build and Microsoft’s commitment

MS Exchange Server Flaws Exploited to Deploy Keylogger in Targeted Attacks 2024-05-22 at 11:02 By An unknown threat actor is exploiting known security flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to deploy a keylogger malware in attacks targeting entities in Africa and the Middle East. Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies said it identified over 30 victims spanning

GitHub Enterprise Server patches 10-outta-10 critical hole 2024-05-22 at 10:46 By Matthew Connatser On the bright side, someone made up to $30,000+ for finding it GitHub has patched its Enterprise Server software to fix a security flaw that scored a 10 out of 10 CVSS severity score.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Top AI players pledge to pull the plug on models that present intolerable risk 2024-05-22 at 09:47 By Laura Dobberstein Seoul Summit follows up Bletchley Declaration with more non-binding and vague promises Sixteen global AI leaders – including Google, Microsoft, IBM, and OpenAI – have made fresh but non-binding pledges to deactivate their own tech

Zoom Adopts NIST-Approved Post-Quantum End-to-End Encryption for Meetings 2024-05-22 at 08:31 By Popular enterprise services provider Zoom has announced the rollout of post-quantum end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Zoom Meetings, with support for Zoom Phone and Zoom Rooms coming in the future. “As adversarial threats become more sophisticated, so does the need to safeguard user data,”

QNAP Patches New Flaws in QTS and QuTS hero Impacting NAS Appliances 2024-05-22 at 08:31 By Taiwanese company QNAP has rolled out fixes for a set of medium-severity flaws impacting QTS and QuTS hero, some of which could be exploited to achieve code execution on its network-attached storage (NAS) appliances. The issues, which impact QTS 5.1.x and QuTS

Two weeks ago, Alibaba Cloud bragged its AI was soaring. Now it’s slashing prices 2024-05-22 at 08:01 By Simon Sharwood ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down China’s top AI players have made enormous cuts to the price of their services.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Critical Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Flaw Allows Authentication Bypass 2024-05-22 at 07:33 By Users of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager are being urged to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could permit an adversary to bypass authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2024-29849 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to

Challenges and opportunities that AI presents CISOs 2024-05-22 at 07:17 By The artificial intelligence landscape is constantly shifting, presenting unique challenges and opportunities for CISOs. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Starlink offers ‘unusually hostile environment’ to TCP 2024-05-22 at 05:31 By Simon Sharwood Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service “represents an unusually hostile link environment” to the TCP protocol, according to Geoff Huston, chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Center.… This article is

Uncle Sam to inject $50M into auto-patcher for hospital IT 2024-05-22 at 04:01 By Jessica Lyons Boffins, why not simply invent an algorithm that autonomously fixes flaws, thereby ending ransomware forever The US government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has pledged more than $50 million to fund the development of technology that aims

Big Tech, VC firms pump $1B into ML data darling Scale AI 2024-05-22 at 03:03 By Tobias Mann Be careful not to over-inflate, you may burst your bubble Scale AI’s valuation soared to nearly $14 billion on Tuesday after the startup revealed it has raked in a billion dollars in venture capital in a late-stage

Microsoft smartens up Edge for Business with screenshot blocking, logo branding, more 2024-05-22 at 02:16 By Thomas Claburn And real-time video translation for things like this: ¡Apestas, Redmond! Build  Edge for Business, Microsoft’s year-old entry in the enterprise browser race, has received a handful of security and productivity upgrades that were announced on Tuesday at