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Rust can help make software secure – but it’s no cure-all 2024-02-08 at 09:32 By Thomas Claburn Security is a process, not a product. Nor a language Memory-safety flaws represent the majority of high-severity problems for Google and Microsoft, but they’re not necessarily associated with the majority of vulnerabilities that actually get exploited.… This article […]

Arm share price bulges after AI pumped revenue to a new record 2024-02-08 at 09:16 By Simon Sharwood Smartphones surge, but chip design champ isn’t ready to predict its cloudy future Brit chip designer Arm has posted its highest-ever quarterly revenue and seen its share price soar, thanks to a little tech that readers may

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider 2024-02-08 at 08:46 By Katyanna Quach CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org’s existing inspector bots Vid  A four-legged robot dog has successfully performed a radiation protection test at CERN by patrolling and inspecting equipment in a small section

Critical Patches Released for New Flaws in Cisco, Fortinet, VMware Products 2024-02-08 at 08:16 By Cisco, Fortinet, and VMware have released security fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities, including critical weaknesses that could be exploited to perform arbitrary actions on affected devices. The first set from Cisco consists of three flaws – CVE-2024-20252 and CVE-2024-20254 (CVSS

Alibaba Cloud posts modest growth, mostly thanks to other Alibaba business units 2024-02-08 at 08:01 By Laura Dobberstein Customers from beyond the Chinese giant are being let go if they’ve signed for low-margin contracts Chinese tech giant Alibaba revealed on Wednesday its own operations are a better source of growth for its public cloud business

Align your security career for future success 2024-02-08 at 07:16 By When you present your successes to a future employer, articulate how your program proactively built coalitions to get ahead of future security risks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Balancing efficiency with security in manufacturing 2024-02-08 at 07:16 By Whirlpool Corporation Chief Security Officer Erik Antons discusses the unique security challenges in the manufacturing industry. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Japan’s second-ranked mobile telco to buy convenience store chain from Mitsubishi 2024-02-08 at 06:47 By Simon Sharwood KDDI wants to snack on data about who buys what at which of Lawson’s 14,600 stores Japan’s second-largest convenience store will be taken private by its second-largest mobile carrier, which will operate it as a joint venture with

OpenAI latest to add ‘Made by AI’ metadata to model work 2024-02-08 at 04:16 By Katyanna Quach Content Credentials: It’s better than nothing™ Images emitted by OpenAI’s generative models will include metadata disclosing their origin, which in turn can be used by applications to alert people to the machine-made nature of that content.… This article

Cisco, Nvidia expand collab to push Ethernet in AI networks 2024-02-08 at 03:16 By Tobias Mann InfiniBand still dominates in GPU clusters, but Ethernet is gaining steam At Cisco Live in Amsterdam on Tuesday, the enterprise networking goliath announced a series of hardware and software platforms in collaboration with Nvidia tailored to everyone’s favorite buzzword

IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam’s demands in aftermath of cyberattacks 2024-02-08 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Plan says to hand over keys to networks – and report intrusions within eight hours of discovery Organizations that sell IT services to Uncle Sam are peeved at proposed changes to procurement rules that would require them

Apple Vision Pro has densest display iFixit’s ever seen, and almost-OK repairability 2024-02-08 at 01:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo You can fit more than 50 Virgin Bro pixels into a single iPhone one while angular resolution remains a little low Teardown artists iFixit have pried open the Vision Pro and awarded the device a “pretty impressive”

Volt Typhoon not the only Chinese crew lurking in US energy, critical networks 2024-02-08 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons Presumably American TLAs are all over Beijing’s infrastructure, too … right? Volt Typhoon isn’t the only Chinese spying crew infiltrating computer networks in America’s energy sector and other critical organizations with the aim of wrecking equipment

AMD crams five compute architectures onto a single board 2024-02-08 at 00:01 By Tobias Mann What an Arm-ful of x86, Vega graphics, XDNA AI, and FPGA circuitry With the launch of its Embedded+ architecture yesterday, AMD effectively posed the question: Why choose one compute architecture when you can have five?… This article is an excerpt

Half of polled infosec pros say their degree was less than useful for real-world work 2024-02-07 at 22:46 By Jessica Lyons The other half paid attention in class? Half of infosec professionals polled by Kaspersky said any cybersecurity knowledge they picked up from their higher education is at best somewhat useful for doing their day

US says China’s Volt Typhoon is readying destructive cyberattacks 2024-02-07 at 21:16 By Jessica Lyons 12 international govt agencies sound the alarm, critical infrastructure at the heart of threats The US government today confirmed that China’s Volt Typhoon crew comprised “multiple” critical infrastructure org’s IT networks, and warned that the state-sponored hackers are readying “disruptive

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up 2024-02-07 at 20:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Our Gen 2 vehicles won’t launch unless we can get to a profit’ The reality of electric vehicle prices has finally caught up with the venerable US automaker Ford, which said yesterday that it’s rethinking its loss-making EV

You’re not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse 2024-02-07 at 19:46 By Dan Robinson It’s all down to recommissioned kit, claim techies tasked with retrieving data from busted gear A German data recovery specialist has confirmed what many Reg readers will have suspected: USB memory sticks are getting less reliable. The cause,

After the Breach 2024-02-07 at 19:16 By Rob Marti What You Can Do Today to Protect Critical and Sensitive Data This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Iran’s cyber operations in Israel a potential prelude to US election interference 2024-02-07 at 18:31 By Connor Jones Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers Iran’s anti-Israel cyber operations are providing a window into the techniques the country may deploy in the run-up to the 2024 US Presidential elections, Microsoft says.… This article