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GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs 2024-05-10 at 17:16 By Laura Dobberstein Cameras tested are specced for Baidu’s Apollo Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities have proven it’s possible to attack autonomous vehicles by exploiting the system’s reliance on camera-based computer vision and cause it to not recognize road […]

China’s SMIC sounds alarm on price wars from silicon surplus 2024-05-10 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Competition heats up while profits cool down Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is the latest to warn of a potential oversupply in the global market, saying there is an increasingly fierce price war for less advanced silicon

CensysGPT: AI-Powered Threat Hunting for Cybersecurity Pros (Webinar) 2024-05-10 at 16:31 By Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cybersecurity, and those leading the charge are using it to outsmart increasingly advanced cyber threats. Join us for an exciting webinar, “The Future of Threat Hunting is Powered by Generative AI,” where you’ll explore how AI tools are

‘Four horsemen of cyber’ look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command 2024-05-10 at 16:16 By Jessica Lyons ‘This was a no sh*tter’ RSAC  A malware-laced USB stick, inserted into a military laptop at a base in Afghanistan in 2008, led to what has been called the worst military breach

TikTok becomes first platform to require watermaking of AI content 2024-05-10 at 15:46 By Laura Dobberstein The deepfake dystopia we’ve been waiting for has already arrived TikTok intends to begin labelling AI-generated images and videos uploaded to its video-sharing service.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

25% of CISOs in tech are not satisfied with their compensation 2024-05-10 at 15:17 By A report detailing tech CISO compensation, mobility and job position satisfaction shows that a quarter of CISOs are unhappy with their compensation.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Father of SQL says yes to NoSQL 2024-05-10 at 15:02 By Lindsay Clark Sometimes your own invention just isn’t enough anymore Interview  The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS.… This article

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 2024-05-10 at 14:31 By Lindsay Clark Someone in marketing may be getting fired for this Comment  “This is who we are, this is what we stand for,” said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs shortly before he relaunched the company in 1997 with its iconic Think Different

Malicious Android Apps Pose as Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, Spread via Smishing 2024-05-10 at 14:01 By Malicious Android apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter) have been observed to steal users’ credentials from compromised devices. “This malware uses famous Android app icons to mislead users and trick victims into installing the malicious

What’s the Right EDR for You? 2024-05-10 at 14:01 By A guide to finding the right endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution for your business’ unique needs. Cybersecurity has become an ongoing battle between hackers and small- and mid-sized businesses. Though perimeter security measures like antivirus and firewalls have traditionally served as the frontlines of defense, the

Chrome Zero-Day Alert — Update Your Browser to Patch New Vulnerability 2024-05-10 at 14:01 By Google on Thursday released security updates to address a zero-day flaw in Chrome that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-4671, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a case of use-after-free in the Visuals component. It was reported

Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp? 2024-05-10 at 13:46 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols HashiCorp’s programs are ideal fit for IBM/Red Hat’s software lines, but why buy the company when the software’s free and open? Opinion  In some ways, IBM paying a cool $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp’s infrastructure-as-code

UK’s National Cyber Security Centre entry code cracks up critics 2024-05-10 at 12:46 By Connor Jones One, two, three, four is all you need to pass that door Rolling hot off the heels of World Password Day (groan), every May 2 we hacks generally receive hundreds of emails from PR companies repping their respective infosec

Researchers Uncover ‘LLMjacking’ Scheme Targeting Cloud-Hosted AI Models 2024-05-10 at 11:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel attack that employs stolen cloud credentials to target cloud-hosted large language model (LLM) services with the goal of selling access to other threat actors. The attack technique has been codenamed LLMjacking by the Sysdig Threat Research Team. “Once initial access was

BlockFi partners with Coinbase for fund distribution amid shutdown 2024-05-10 at 11:01 By Cointelegraph by Amaka Nwaokocha The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Italy’s climate super computer, Cassandra, to combine HPC with AI 2024-05-10 at 09:46 By Tobias Mann CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel’s HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s Boffins in Italy are about to get their hands on a supercomputer that will more than double the resources available to study the effects of

Guarding the guardians: Importance of mental health for security personnel 2024-05-10 at 07:16 By This Mental Health Awareness Month, security leaders discuss mental health and safety in organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Need a new leadership style? Line up the contenders 2024-05-10 at 07:16 By In the next few decades, if not years, a new leadership theory is bound to upend the current notions of what makes a great leader and how one is developed. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed

And it begins. OpenAI mulls NSFW AI model output 2024-05-10 at 01:46 By Thomas Claburn New twist on open, then OpenAI released model safety guidance on Wednesday while acknowledging that it’s looking into how to support the creation of content that’s NSFW, or “not safe for work.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don’t want their advice used to train AI 2024-05-10 at 01:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Give us an opt-out button or give us (temporary) account death! Stack Overflow users are revolting against the Q&A site’s partnership with OpenAI, announcing they’d rather remove their posts and sacrifice their reputation scores than