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Cloudflare sheds more light on Thanksgiving security breach in which tokens, source code accessed by suspected spies 2024-02-02 at 03:16 By Thomas Claburn Atlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in […]

OpenAI claims GPT-4 gives ‘a mild uplift’ to creating a biochemical weapon 2024-02-02 at 00:46 By Katyanna Quach Good to know that boffins can’t easily prompt their way to new careers as biowar supervillains GPT-4 contributes “at most a mild uplift” to users who employ the model to create bioweapons, according to a study conducted

China ‘readies production’ of homegrown high-bandwidth memory 2024-02-02 at 00:01 By Tobias Mann Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom’s ambitions ChangXin Memory Technologies, aka CXMT, could become China’s first domestic producer of high-bandwidth memory modules, which are crucial to building the accelerators used in AI and high-performance computing.… This article is

JetBrains’ unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry 2024-02-01 at 22:31 By Thomas Claburn Some devs just don’t want anything to do with neural-network code serfs JetBrains introduced an AI assistant in December to help programmers write code. Now the biz is trying to figure out how to allow its customers to get rid of it.…

Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won’t be enough 2024-02-01 at 21:02 By Lindsay Clark Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools as standalone protections.…

Netgear takes Huawei to court over Wi-Fi patent spat 2024-02-01 at 20:17 By Dan Robinson Router maker claims Chinese giant refuses to license on reasonable terms Netgear is suing Huawei in California, accusing its networking kit rival of racketeering and anti-competitive behavior for refusing to license Wi-Fi patents it holds on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND)

Biden will veto attempts to rip up SEC breach reporting rule 2024-02-01 at 19:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Senate, House can try but won’t make it past the Prez, says White House The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule.…

A Space Shuttle goes vertical for one last time 2024-02-01 at 18:47 By Richard Speed Endeavour raised into position for California Science Center’s ‘Go For Stack’ For the first time in more than ten years, a Space Shuttle has been raised into launch position. Although the completed stack won’t be seeing a launchpad any time

FritzFrog Returns with Log4Shell and PwnKit, Spreading Malware Inside Your Network 2024-02-01 at 18:31 By The threat actor behind a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as FritzFrog has made a return with a new variant that leverages the Log4Shell vulnerability to propagate internally within an already compromised network. “The vulnerability is exploited in a brute-force manner that attempts to target

Windows 10 users report app problems after Microsoft update 2024-02-01 at 17:46 By Richard Speed When Redmond says unsupported, it really means it. Windows 11 fans beware Old Windows 10 hardware is struggling to open some recently updated Microsoft applications, giving anyone running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware a glimpse of their potential future.… This

Uncle Sam designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators 2024-02-01 at 17:16 By Dan Robinson No restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses The chip wars between Washington and Beijing keep grinding on with more than a dozen Chinese tech companies now being added to a list of entities claimed

LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children’s hospital 2024-02-01 at 16:32 By Connor Jones It even had the gall to set the ransom demand at $800K … for a nonprofit Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children’s hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of

Exposed Docker APIs Under Attack in ‘Commando Cat’ Cryptojacking Campaign 2024-02-01 at 16:31 By Exposed Docker API endpoints over the internet are under assault from a sophisticated cryptojacking campaign called Commando Cat. “The campaign deploys a benign container generated using the Commando project,” Cado security researchers Nate Bill and Matt Muir said in a new report published today. “The

71% of businesses haven’t incorporated AI into physical security 2024-02-01 at 16:17 By A new report reveals that 71% of businesses surveyed have not integrated artificial intelligence (AI) into their security strategy while 23% don’t know if they’re using AI. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think 2024-02-01 at 15:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo They’re just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg Feature  When the first commercial coal-fired electric power plants came online, starting with the Holborn Viaduct power station that supplied electricity to the City of London in January 1882,

Women in Security nominations close in one month 2024-02-01 at 15:31 By There is one month left to nominate colleagues and peers for Security magazine’s Women in Security award program by the March 1 deadline. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for company’s role in Post Office Horizon scandal 2024-02-01 at 15:02 By Lindsay Clark ‘Deepest apologies to the sub-postmasters and their families’ Fujitsu’s CFO is the latest in the the Japanese vendor’s exec ranks to apologize for the megacorp’s role in the Post Office Horizon scandal, widely viewed as one

Trustwave SpiderLabs Guide: Jailbreaking Apple iOS 17 and Above 2024-02-01 at 15:02 By Therese Mendoza PLEASE NOTE: Jailbreaking any phone has the potential to permanently damage your device. Even if successful, you will be voiding your warranty and will no longer receive any official security or firmware updates. This could put your data at risk

U.S. Feds Shut Down China-Linked “KV-Botnet” Targeting SOHO Routers 2024-02-01 at 14:32 By The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by a China-linked state-sponsored threat actor called Volt Typhoon and blunt the impact posed by the hacking