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AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments 2024-03-05 at 19:37 By Dan Robinson You get a ‘sovereign’ AI, and you get a ‘sovereign’ AI, everybody gets a ‘sovereign’ AI AMD is betting that it can get governments and other public bodies to sign off on investment in AI infrastructure by enlisting […]

US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets 2024-03-05 at 19:12 By Connor Jones Where better to expose confidential data than on a dating app? Yet another US military man is facing a potentially significant stretch in prison after allegedly sending secret national defense information (NDI) overseas.… This article is an excerpt from

DDoS attacks against customers in the Americas increases by 196% 2024-03-05 at 19:11 By DDoS attacks increased globally in 2023, with the Americas being a common target.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Hackers Exploit ConnectWise ScreenConnect Flaws to Deploy TODDLERSHARK Malware 2024-03-05 at 19:11 By North Korean threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed security flaws in ConnectWise ScreenConnect to deploy a new malware called TODDLERSHARK. According to a report shared by Kroll with The Hacker News, TODDLERSHARK overlaps with known Kimsuky malware such as BabyShark and ReconShark.

IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk’s social media platform 2024-03-05 at 18:22 By Brandon Vigliarolo If you’re still on X you’d better disable this insecure-by-default calling feature, lest someone snatch your IP Video and audio calling features for X Premium users added last year to Elon Musk’s version of Twitter have been expanded

Facebook, Instagram and Threads kicking users off with password reset 2024-03-05 at 18:22 By Iain Thomson Millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced Those trying to log into Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads for their social media fixes are facing panic this morning after being locked out of their accounts.…

Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11 2024-03-05 at 18:08 By Richard Speed It’s in the Beta Channel build for now… but oh my, you’re not going to love this Copilot in Windows is set to get even more assertive after Microsoft added a function that makes the AI assistant’s

YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting 2024-03-05 at 17:47 By Richard Currie Caught on camera: ‘Our jobs are ended today, effective immediately’ The moment 43 unionized YouTube Music subcontractors lost their jobs was dramatically caught on camera during an Austin City Hall meeting in Texas last week.… This article is an excerpt

Class action claims Snowflake is an overhyped sales blizzard 2024-03-05 at 17:06 By Lindsay Clark Investors unhappy after 2022 revenue guidance cut Snowflake is the subject of a would-be class action lawsuit alleging it made misleading statements and failed to disclose important data about sales practices and its commercial model between September 16, 2020, and

Tesla Berlin gigafactory goes dark after alleged eco-sabotage 2024-03-05 at 16:42 By Brandon Vigliarolo Left-wing extremist group claims responsibility, says goal is to ‘bring Tesla to its knees’ An alleged arson attack at a power substation outside Berlin has knocked Tesla’s nearby gigafactory offline, and a left-wing activist group is claiming that disrupting Tesla was

Microsoft: Copyright law didn’t stop the VCR and shouldn’t stop the LLM 2024-03-05 at 16:22 By Richard Speed Lawyers argue content used to train LLMs does not ‘supplant the market’ for news Microsoft is coming out swinging over claims by the New York Times that the Windows giant and OpenAI infringed copyright by using its

Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for ‘uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure’ 2024-03-05 at 15:27 By Connor Jones Exploits began within hours of the original disclosure, so patch now Security shop Rapid7 is criticizing JetBrains for flouting its policy against silent patching regarding fixes for two fresh vulnerabilities in the TeamCity CI/CD server.… This article is an

Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is 2024-03-05 at 15:04 By Dan Robinson Don’t hold your breath Brit tech industry association Techworks wants to see more support for the UK semiconductor sector in this week’s budget to help the nation’s chip companies better compete on the global

Security leaders weigh in on the recent UnitedHealth cyberattack 2024-03-05 at 15:03 By UnitedHealth Group recently experienced a cyberattack caused by Blackcat, and experts are offering their insights on the ransomware group’s behavior.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia 2024-03-05 at 13:48 By Dan Robinson AI’s appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere The server market is bouncing back in value terms, as customers demand beefier systems to train or run AI models – and the success of server

What is Exposure Management and How Does it Differ from ASM? 2024-03-05 at 13:47 By Startups and scales-ups are often cloud-first organizations and rarely have sprawling legacy on-prem environments. Likewise, knowing the agility and flexibility that cloud environments provide, the mid-market is predominantly running in a hybrid state, partly in the cloud but with some

Over 225,000 Compromised ChatGPT Credentials Up for Sale on Dark Web Markets 2024-03-05 at 13:47 By More than 225,000 logs containing compromised OpenAI ChatGPT credentials were made available for sale on underground markets between January and October 2023, new findings from Group-IB show. These credentials were found within information stealer logs associated with LummaC2, Raccoon, and RedLine

Cybercriminals Using Novel DNS Hijacking Technique for Investment Scams 2024-03-05 at 13:47 By A new DNS threat actor dubbed Savvy Seahorse is leveraging sophisticated techniques to entice targets into fake investment platforms and steal funds. “Savvy Seahorse is a DNS threat actor who convinces victims to create accounts on fake investment platforms, make deposits to a personal

Watchdog calls for more plugs, less monopoly in EV charging network 2024-03-05 at 13:02 By Richard Speed Exclusivity deals a no-no, and ‘charging deserts’ must be avoided The UK’s competition regulator is calling for more competition, interoperability, and better reliability in the local electric vehicle (EV) charging network.… This article is an excerpt from The

Warning: Thread Hijacking Attack Targets IT Networks, Stealing NTLM Hashes 2024-03-05 at 12:47 By The threat actor known as TA577 has been observed using ZIP archive attachments in phishing emails with an aim to steal NT LAN Manager (NTLM) hashes. The new attack chain “can be used for sensitive information gathering purposes and to enable follow-on activity,”