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Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks 2024-03-15 at 01:35 By Jessica Lyons Uncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that’s beside the point There’s another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: electronic […]

FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement 2024-03-14 at 22:55 By Brandon Vigliarolo Imagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents A pair of tech support businesses accused of swindling marks out of their hard-earned cash have agreed to

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage 2024-03-14 at 21:06 By Dan Robinson Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source Adding caffeine can enhance the efficiency of fuel cells, reducing the need for platinum in electrodes and significantly reducing the cost of making them, according to researchers

LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars 2024-03-14 at 20:45 By Jessica Lyons Canadian said to have turned to a life of cybercrime during pandemic, now must pay the price – literally A LockBit ransomware kingpin has been sentenced to almost four years behind bars and ordered to pay more than CA$860,000 ($635,000, £500,000)

Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn’t leak to ad giant 2024-03-14 at 20:45 By Thomas Claburn Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it Google has enhanced its Safe Browsing service to enable real-time protection in Chrome for desktop, iOS, and soon Android against risky websites,

Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases 2024-03-14 at 19:36 By Lindsay Clark But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? Oracle has unleashed 50 use cases for gen AI on its Fusion Applications suite, letting vector-based statistical models provide financial report “narratives,” help

Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool 2024-03-14 at 19:36 By Brandon Vigliarolo VLOGGER needs just a still photo and an audio recording to generate footage, but it’s far from perfect Google has a new AI trick up its sleeve that can animate a still photo using nothing but a

Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people’s data 2024-03-14 at 19:36 By Connor Jones Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into A French government department – responsible for registering and assisting unemployed people – is the latest victim of a mega data breach that compromised the information

Report reveals 13,000 detected and blocked false investment domains 2024-03-14 at 19:35 By Around 13,000 fraudulent investment domains were detected and blocked, revealing a continued trend in consumer fraud.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX’s Starship 2024-03-14 at 17:58 By Richard Speed Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success! SpaceX has launched its third Starship Super-Heavy rocket on a test flight that went almost entirely to plan.… This article is an excerpt from The

International effort to disrupt cybercrime moves into operational phase 2024-03-14 at 17:06 By Jessica Lyons Will the WEF experiment work? The Cybercrime Atlas, a massive undertaking that aims to disrupt cybercriminals across the globe, enters its operational phase in 2024, two years after organizers laid the groundwork at the RSA Conference.… This article is an

LockBit Ransomware Hacker Ordered to Pay $860,000 After Guilty Plea in Canada 2024-03-14 at 16:51 By A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department

Developers beware, Microsoft’s domain shakeup is coming soon 2024-03-14 at 16:37 By Richard Speed If you don’t pay attention, your lovely little Teams app will stop working Time is running out for developers and administrators to prepare themselves for Microsoft’s one domain to rule them all – cloud.microsoft.… This article is an excerpt from The

US to probe Change Healthcare’s data protection standards as lawsuits mount 2024-03-14 at 16:36 By Connor Jones Services slowly coming back online but providers still struggling Change Healthcare is being investigated over the alleged 6 TB data theft by the ALPHV ransomware group as it continues recovery efforts.… This article is an excerpt from The

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble 2024-03-14 at 15:43 By Richard Speed Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers Engineers are hopeful that the veteran spacecraft Voyager 1 might have turned a corner after spending the last three months spouting gibberish at controllers.… This article is an excerpt

Shut the Door on Ransomware Before it Gets Started 2024-03-14 at 15:03 By Esther Seguin Symantec Adaptive Protection Keeps Attackers Out This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Former US Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok 2024-03-14 at 14:59 By Brandon Vigliarolo SteveTok? TikMnuch? breaking news  On the heels of the US House of Representatives passing a TikTok ban bill, former US Treasury secretary and private equity mogul Steve Mnuchin is apparently thinking about buying the platform.… This article is an

Research uncovers vulnerabilities in ChatGPT plugins 2024-03-14 at 14:59 By New research discloses the areas in ChatGPT plugins that could have been exploited.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Researchers Detail Kubernetes Vulnerability That Enables Windows Node Takeover 2024-03-14 at 14:59 By Details have been made public about a now-patched high-severity flaw in Kubernetes that could allow a malicious attacker to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges under specific circumstances. “The vulnerability allows remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints

AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers 2024-03-14 at 14:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots A survey of UK workers suggests that quality of life declines as exposure to newer technology including wearables, robotics, and AI rises in