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Homeland Security will test out using genAI to train US immigration officers 2024-03-19 at 19:16 By Richard Speed It’s all about privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, ok? The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has an AI roadmap and a trio of test projects to deploy the tech, one of which aims to train immigration […]

APIs Drive the Majority of Internet Traffic and Cybercriminals are Taking Advantage 2024-03-19 at 19:16 By Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the connective tissue behind digital modernization, helping applications and databases exchange data more effectively. The State of API Security in 2024 Report from Imperva, a Thales company, found that the majority of internet traffic (71%) in

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android 2024-03-19 at 18:32 By Liam Proven And you now get keyboard navigation in the built-in PDF reader The latest version of Firefox improves in areas that should help it fit in better on several categories of hardware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

When life gives you Lemon, sack him 2024-03-19 at 17:32 By Richard Currie CNN veteran publishes Musk interview that got his X show canceled Comment  Last year, two high-profile American news anchors lost their jobs. This year, CNN’s Don Lemon joined Fox News’s Tucker Carlson with a new show on Elon Musk’s X.… This article

Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off 2024-03-19 at 17:16 By Richard Speed Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has dropped into safe mode after one of the spacecraft’s three gyroscopes showed signs of degradation.… This article is an

Crypto wallet providers urged to rethink security as criminals drain them of millions 2024-03-19 at 16:48 By Connor Jones Innovative Ethereum feature exploited as victims say goodbye to assets Infosec researchers are noting rising cryptocurrency attacks and have encouraged wallet security providers to up their collective game.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Suppliers to Intel and TSMC’s Arizona fabs now face build delays 2024-03-19 at 16:31 By Dan Robinson You know where plants are much cheaper to construct? Asia Intel and TSMC face new hitches to their chip fabrication plants in Arizona with key suppliers encountering difficulties in building support facilities due to surging costs for building

From Deepfakes to Malware: AI’s Expanding Role in Cyber Attacks 2024-03-19 at 16:16 By Large language models (LLMs) powering artificial intelligence (AI) tools today could be exploited to develop self-augmenting malware capable of bypassing YARA rules. “Generative AI can be used to evade string-based YARA rules by augmenting the source code of small malware variants,

Catch Java 22, available from Oracle for a limited time 2024-03-19 at 15:47 By Thomas Claburn Latest release of coffee-themed programming language aspires to simplicity with a dozen new features Oracle released Java 22 (JDK 22) on Tuesday, sporting a dozen new features for Java developers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

AI researchers have started reviewing their peers using AI assistance 2024-03-19 at 15:17 By Thomas Claburn ChatGPT deems your work to be commendable, innovative, and comprehensive Academics focused on artificial intelligence have taken to using generative AI to help them review the machine learning work of peers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

The Inevitable Threat: AI-Generated Email Attacks Delivered to Mailboxes 2024-03-19 at 15:17 By Generative AI exploded in popularity not too long ago but its influence on text and media creation is already undeniable. AI content is becoming ubiquitous on the internet, and this technology is slowly seeping into real life, impacting sectors such as healthcare,

Atos says Airbus flew off, no longer interested in infosec and big data biz 2024-03-19 at 14:32 By Paul Kunert Ailing tech integrator takes a hard hit… share price down by up to 20% this morning Atos’ share price sank as much as 20 percent this morning on confirmation that Airbus is no longer interested

A newly uncovered phishing campaign that spreads remote access trojans 2024-03-19 at 14:19 By Experts share their insights on the newly discovered phishing campaign that encourages targets to download a malicious Java downloader.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Virgin Media sets up ‘smart poles’ next to cabinets to boost mobile network capacity 2024-03-19 at 14:01 By Dan Robinson Not the best looking street furniture in town UK telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) says it can boost mobile services by sticking small cells on top of poles linked to its on-street fiber network cabinets.…

Hackers Exploiting Popular Document Publishing Sites for Phishing Attacks 2024-03-19 at 12:47 By Threat actors are leveraging digital document publishing (DDP) sites hosted on platforms like FlipSnack, Issuu, Marq, Publuu, RelayTo, and Simplebooklet for carrying out phishing, credential harvesting, and session token theft, once again underscoring how threat actors are repurposing legitimate services for malicious ends. “Hosting

Crafting and Communicating Your Cybersecurity Strategy for Board Buy-In 2024-03-19 at 12:47 By In an era where digital transformation drives business across sectors, cybersecurity has transcended its traditional operational role to become a cornerstone of corporate strategy and risk management. This evolution demands a shift in how cybersecurity leaders—particularly Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)—articulate the

Suspected Russian Data-Wiping ‘AcidPour’ Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices 2024-03-19 at 12:47 By A new variant of a data wiping malware called AcidRain has been detected in the wild that’s specifically designed for targeting Linux x86 devices. The malware, dubbed AcidPour, is compiled for Linux x86 devices, SentinelOne’s Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade said in a series

Voltron Data revs up hyper-speed analytics, leaves Snowflake in the dust 2024-03-19 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark GPU-based system offers high performance off Parquet files Analytics software startup Voltron Data claims to have completed the full TPC-H 100 terabyte scale factor on unsorted Parquet files directly from storage in less than an hour with only

Linux kernel 4.14 gets a life extension, thanks to OpenELA 2024-03-19 at 12:04 By Liam Proven Could this be the first green shoot of enterprise vendors paying for long-term maintenance? The Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has stepped up to maintain Linux kernel version 4.14 – which went out of support in January – to

VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers 2024-03-19 at 12:04 By Simon Sharwood ‘White label’ program also means retaining customers Exclusive  VMware by Broadcom appears to have made concessions to some of the cloud service providers it has previously indicated it will spurn.… This article is an excerpt from The Register