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AI mishaps are surging – and now they’re being tracked like software bugs 2024-03-08 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database Interview  False images of Donald Trump supported by made-up Black voters, middle-schoolers creating pornographic deepfakes of their female classmates, and Google’s Gemini chatbot failing to […]

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability 2024-03-08 at 09:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8), refers to an authentication

Euro-cloud consortium issues ultimatum to Microsoft: Fix your licensing or else 2024-03-08 at 08:38 By Paul Kunert Redmond hasn’t budged on deals that make its wares cheaper on Azure, and regulators are circling A group of cloud infrastructure providers in Europe has delivered an ultimatum to Microsoft: End the “unjustified feature and pricing discriminations against

Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year 2024-03-08 at 07:19 By Simon Sharwood Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Broadcom has told investors its strategy of forcing VMware customers to buy only big bundles of software will see revenue increase by “double-digit percentage sequentially, quarter over

Product spotlight on crisis management & communications 2024-03-08 at 07:03 By Security magazine highlights crisis management platforms, alert systems and mass-communication channels. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

From gates, guns & guards to encryption, endpoints & erasure 2024-03-08 at 07:03 By Security leaders should consider how everyday habits can drastically improve security measures surrounding intellectual property protection. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Font security ‘still a Helvetica of a problem’ says Australian graphics outfit Canva 2024-03-08 at 06:07 By Laura Dobberstein Who knew that unzipping a font archive could unleash a malicious file Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three – in “strange places.”… This article is an excerpt

India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer 2024-03-08 at 04:46 By Simon Sharwood Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help India’s government has approved a ₹10,300 Crore ($1.24 billion) funding package to bolster the nation’s AI infrastructure.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway? 2024-03-08 at 03:16 By Jessica Lyons CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up The US government and some of the largest open source foundations and package repositories have announced a series of initiatives intended to improve software supply-chain security, while also

Apple may have made itself a target before the EU’s Digital Markets Act comes into force 2024-03-08 at 02:17 By Lindsay Clark iPhone giant’s $2B fine shows the bloc is serious about regulation Experts say Apple has made itself a target for regulators as the EU introduces stringent new rules under the Digital Markets Act

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout 2024-03-08 at 00:18 By Richard Speed Safety watchdog bemoans lack of cooperation with probe Boeing has come in for criticism from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over documentation detailing who was responsible for failures in the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug attachment.… This

We’re not Meta support: State AGs tell Zuck to fix rampant account takeover problem 2024-03-07 at 23:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘We refuse to operate as customer service representatives’ A group of 41 US state attorneys general, tired of serving as a customer complaint clearinghouse for Facebook and Instagram users, have sent a letter to Meta

Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam 2024-03-07 at 23:18 By Tobias Mann They can’t have Intel building military chips out in the open now can they? Intel is on track to receive $3.5 billion in US CHIPS Act funding to produce advanced semiconductors for American military and intelligence

Windows 10 failing to patch properly? You are most definitely not alone 2024-03-07 at 22:34 By Richard Speed It looks like you’re trying to update an operating system. Shall I be spectacularly unhelpful with that? Microsoft’s legendary approach to Windows quality control is on show again with yet another update that is struggling to complete

Chrome users – get an alert when extensions are in danger of falling into wrong hands 2024-03-07 at 21:48 By Thomas Claburn Under New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware Millions of Chrome users now have a way to guard against the threat of extension subversion, that is, if

Possible China link to Change Healthcare ransomware attack 2024-03-07 at 20:33 By Jessica Lyons Alleged crim bought SmartScreen Killer, Cobalt Strike on dark-web markets A criminal claiming to be an ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate — the gang responsible for the widely disruptive Change Healthcare ransomware infection last month —  may have ties to Chinese government-backed cybercrime syndicates.…

Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harrassment 2024-03-07 at 19:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo If any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot Reddit is upping its AI game again, this time with the implementation of an LLM-powered harassment filter for the benefit of its army of volunteer moderators.…

New research uncovers an emerging malware campaign 2024-03-07 at 19:08 By Research done by Cado Security has revealed a new malware campaign as well as its most common targets.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

American Express announces data breach 2024-03-07 at 18:49 By American Express announced that card members’ account and financial data may have been affected by a data breach involving third party partners. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

JetBrains TeamCity under attack by ransomware thugs after disclosure mess 2024-03-07 at 18:38 By Connor Jones More than 1,000 servers remain unpatched and vulnerable Security researchers are increasingly seeing active exploit attempts using the latest vulnerabilities in JetBrains’ TeamCity that in some cases are leading to ransomware deployment.… This article is an excerpt from The