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It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above 2024-02-26 at 18:36 By Brandon Vigliarolo One year on, balloon fever remains alive and well in the US Just when you thought the skies over America were finally free of Chinese spy balloons … well they are, at least in

Musk ‘texts’ Nadella about Windows 11’s demands for a Microsoft account 2024-02-26 at 18:04 By Richard Speed Billionaire worried about AI crawling over his computer Are you getting a bit tired of Microsoft’s demands while installing Windows 11? You aren’t alone – billionaire Elon Musk is also less than impressed with the requirements for a

New IDAT Loader Attacks Using Steganography to Deploy Remcos RAT 2024-02-26 at 17:46 By Ukrainian entities based in Finland have been targeted as part of a malicious campaign distributing a commercial remote access trojan known as Remcos RAT using a malware loader called IDAT Loader. The attack has been attributed to a threat actor tracked

Greener, cheaper, what’s not to love about a secondhand smartphone? 2024-02-26 at 17:33 By Paul Kunert Price tag, hardware durability underpinning ‘already lengthened replacement cycle’ Half of consumers polled in a Vodafone-backed survey are considering buying a refurbished smartphone instead of a brand-new handset, with the lower purchase price and environmental concerns cited as the

Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander tripped and fell 2024-02-26 at 16:49 By Laura Dobberstein Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander last week became the first American lander to touch down on the Moon in 50 years – albeit landing on its side.… This article is an excerpt from

Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry’s mega tradeshow 2024-02-26 at 16:22 By Dan Robinson Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts? MWC  Qualcomm is going big on AI at MWC, where it’s showing off a 7 billion parameter large language model running on

8,000+ Subdomains of Trusted Brands Hijacked for Massive Spam Operation 2024-02-26 at 16:21 By More than 8,000 subdomains belonging to legitimate brands and institutions have been hijacked as part of a sophisticated distribution architecture for spam proliferation and click monetization. Guardio Labs is tracking the coordinated malicious activity, which has been ongoing since at least

Welcome to Adventures in Cybersecurity: The Defender Series 2024-02-26 at 16:04 By David Broggy I’m happy to say I’m done chasing Microsoft certifications (AZ104/AZ500/SC100), and as a result, I’ve had the time to put some effort into a blog series that hopefully will entertain and inform you with some of the topics around cybersecurity. As a security

Change Healthcare provides update on cyberattack 2024-02-26 at 16:04 By Change Healthcare, a technology company primarily used for pharmaceutical communication, has notified users and patients of a cyberattack. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

More AI for cell networks as Intel rolls out vRAN platform 2024-02-26 at 15:56 By Dan Robinson Plus fresh edge compute system that may be able to run on existing infra MWC  Intel’s opening day at MWC is all about networks and edge compute, specifically a dedicated edge platform, a developer kit for AI models

AT&T’s apology for Thursday’s outage should stretch to a cup of coffee 2024-02-26 at 15:20 By Richard Speed Check your service level agreements to make sure you’ll at least get a slice of cake when your vendor goes down The $5 credit AT&T is offering to customers affected by last week’s major outage highlights that

New research finds gaps in secure access to OT environments 2024-02-26 at 15:19 By Though historically isolated, OT systems are now experiencing increased connectivity that introduces new risks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite ‘power imbalance’ 2024-02-26 at 14:54 By Lindsay Clark 2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed ‘unlawfully’, ICO says A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor

North Korean Hackers Targeting Developers with Malicious npm Packages 2024-02-26 at 14:38 By A set of fake npm packages discovered on the Node.js repository has been found to share ties with North Korean state-sponsored actors, new findings from Phylum show. The packages are named execution-time-async, data-time-utils, login-time-utils, mongodb-connection-utils, and mongodb-execution-utils. One of the packages in

Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders 2024-02-26 at 13:05 By Lindsay Clark Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech UK government has launched two tenders for cloud services that could jointly see up to £7.5 billion ($9.5 billion) spent under framework agreements.… This article is

Three Tips to Protect Your Secrets from AI Accidents 2024-02-26 at 13:05 By Last year, the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) published multiple versions of the “OWASP Top 10 For Large Language Models,” reaching a 1.0 document in August and a 1.1 document in October. These documents not only demonstrate the rapidly evolving nature

The self-created risk in Broadcom’s big VMware kiss-off 2024-02-26 at 12:21 By Rupert Goodwins Arise, the new Migration Nation Opinion  It looked like the most cynical corporate move of the last couple of years, at least in IT. A year and a half after it was announced, so it has proved to be. Broadcom’s $61

Banking Trojans Target Latin America and Europe Through Google Cloud Run 2024-02-26 at 12:21 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in email phishing campaigns that are weaponizing the Google Cloud Run service to deliver various banking trojans such as Astaroth (aka Guildma), Mekotio, and Ousaban (aka Javali) to targets across Latin America (LATAM) and Europe. “The infection chains

Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit 2024-02-26 at 11:32 By Liam Proven Making full effective use of new persistent memory means tearing up the rulebook FOSDEM  Non-volatile RAM is making a comeback, but the deep assumptions of 1970s OS design will stop us making effective use of it. There are other