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Cybersecurity Documentation Essentials 2024-03-18 at 14:05 By David Broggy This is Part 3 in my ongoing project to cover 30 cybersecurity topics in 30 weekly blog posts. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

Microsoft promises Copilot will be a ‘moneymaker’ in the long term 2024-03-18 at 13:46 By Paul Kunert Exec tells investors to ‘temper’ expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues Microsoft is asking investors to “temper” expectations for quick financial returns from Copilot amid efforts to convince customers that paying “substantial” sums each

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version 2024-03-18 at 13:46 By Liam Proven Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

APT28 Hacker Group Targeting Europe, Americas, Asia in Widespread Phishing Scheme 2024-03-18 at 12:01 By The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 has been linked to multiple ongoing phishing campaigns that employ lure documents imitating government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and North and South America. “The uncovered lures include a

WordPress Admins Urged to Remove miniOrange Plugins Due to Critical Flaw 2024-03-18 at 11:46 By WordPress users of miniOrange’s Malware Scanner and Web Application Firewall plugins are being urged to delete them from their websites following the discovery of a critical security flaw. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-2172, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of

The last mile’s at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it 2024-03-18 at 11:30 By Rupert Goodwins The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle Opinion  Most of us, from time to time, have grievances with our network operators. We complain, we leave bad reviews, we rage-post.

ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: token obfuscation 2024-03-18 at 06:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns in brief  Almost as quickly as a paper came out last week revealing an AI side-channel vulnerability, Cloudflare researchers have figured out how to

Open source developer tools have won: That’s a supply chain risk 2024-03-18 at 06:03 By Maintainers of open source developer tools will need to work doubly hard to ensure that they maintain software supply security.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes 2024-03-17 at 16:00 By Tobias Mann Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Hands On  With all the talk of massive machine-learning training clusters and AI PCs you’d be

In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don’t leave security behind 2024-03-17 at 13:04 By Katyanna Quach Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more Feature  While in a rush to understand, build, and ship AI products, developers and data scientists are being urged to be

The ERC-6551 token standard, explained 2024-03-17 at 11:17 By Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya ERC-6551 enables NFTs to function as smart contract wallets that can own and transfer other tokens and also have trackable histories. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Hackers Using Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer 2024-03-16 at 19:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro. The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated with 11 different accounts, according to G DATA. The repositories in

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts 2024-03-16 at 10:27 By Brandon Vigliarolo As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI Ahead of its stock market debut, Reddit has said it’s going to make it easier for advertisers to craft normal user posts and run them as ads

Biden to inject Intel with CHIPS fab cash ‘next week’ 2024-03-16 at 03:12 By Tobias Mann Samsung and TSMC apparently slated to receive $6B and $5B The Biden administration may announce billions in government CHIPS subsidies to offset the cost of Intel’s US fab expansion as early as next week.… This article is an excerpt

Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-ups pushing Bing, GPT-4 2024-03-16 at 01:40 By Chris Williams We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs Microsoft is cheerily popping up ads over Chrome on Windows PCs to push its search engine and AI assistant.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Microsoft license shuffle means Power Apps users could break the bank 2024-03-15 at 22:55 By Lindsay Clark New restrictions seem to usher users toward expensive Dynamics 365 subscriptions Microsoft appears to have updated the licensing rules for its popular Power Apps, which could force some customers to shift their users onto the more expensive licenses,

As if working at Helldesk weren’t bad enough, IT helpers now targeted by cybercrims 2024-03-15 at 22:12 By Connor Jones Wave of Okta attacks mark what researchers are calling the biggest security trend of the year IT helpdesk workers are increasingly the target of cybercriminals – a trend researchers have described as “the most noteworthy”

Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with pleasant tweaks to Wayland-based desktop 2024-03-15 at 20:04 By Liam Proven Kernel 6.6 and small refinements, plus less visible, but meaningful adjustments The Raspberry Pi Foundation has updated its Debian 12-based OS for the pocket-sized powerhouse, with the newest LTS kernel.… This article is an excerpt from The

GhostRace – New Data Leak Vulnerability Affects Modern CPUs 2024-03-15 at 20:03 By A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution. Dubbed GhostRace (CVE-2024-2193), it is a variation of the transient execution CPU vulnerability known as Spectre v1 (CVE-2017-5753). The approach combines speculative execution and race conditions.

FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved 2024-03-15 at 18:41 By Dan Robinson Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload … and some places don’t even have that The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is finally updating its standard for broadband speeds to 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload,