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Space exploitation vs space exploration: Humanity has much to learn from the Voyager probes 2024-02-01 at 13:31 By Richard Speed When ‘what’s the value to the economy?’ wasn’t front of mind SPACE WEEK  It will soon be half a century since NASA’s Voyager probes were launched on a tour of the solar system. The reason […]

HeadCrab 2.0 Goes Fileless, Targeting Redis Servers for Crypto Mining 2024-02-01 at 13:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of the malware HeadCrab that’s known to target Redis database servers across the world since early September 2021. The development, which comes exactly a year after the malware was first publicly disclosed by Aqua, is a sign that

Why the Right Metrics Matter When it Comes to Vulnerability Management 2024-02-01 at 13:31 By How’s your vulnerability management program doing? Is it effective? A success? Let’s be honest, without the right metrics or analytics, how can you tell how well you’re doing, progressing, or if you’re getting ROI? If you’re not measuring, how do

Seagate used bullying tactics to prevent union recognition, claims Unite 2024-02-01 at 12:31 By Paul Kunert Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker’s hand, union says Seagate workers building external hard drives in Northern Ireland have voted for trade union recognition, meaning they now have collective bargaining rights and potentially a

Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough 2024-02-01 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid Smart clothing is a go-to item on the hype-cycle bandwagon, which never seems to arrive. Yet for anyone wanting to play Doom on their

How not to write about network security – and yes, I’m speaking from experience 2024-02-01 at 10:32 By Bruce Davie At least it’s no longer an afterthought Systems Approach  In 1996, Larry Peterson and I published the first edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach in the hope that it would become a widely adopted

Warning: New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities 2024-02-01 at 10:16 By Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK,

Brit watchdog thinks Google’s tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn’t cricket 2024-02-01 at 09:47 By Thomas Claburn Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority Google so far has lived up to its commitments to make room in its Privacy Sandbox for rivals, though the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority says a

Qualcomm signals its PC push will coincide with back to school sales and be tied to a Windows launch 2024-02-01 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars Qualcomm’s attempt to grab a slab of the PC CPU market will commence in earnest in

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Vulnerability in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 2024-02-01 at 07:32 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-48618 (CVSS score: 7.8),

Singtel does the ‘we’re building datacenters to host Nvidia clusters’ thing 2024-02-01 at 07:16 By Laura Dobberstein Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI Telcoms giant Singtel announced Thursday a collaboration with Nvidia to deliver purpose-built AI infrastructure across Southeast Asia.… This article is

The value-add of security metrics 2024-02-01 at 07:16 By Four enterprise security functions have embraced data to improve operational efficiency, enterprise-wide communication, and security buy-in. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The pros and cons for AI in financial sector cybersecurity 2024-02-01 at 07:16 By The financial sector has been deeply impacted by fraud, and security professionals are finding ways to mitigate it via artificial intelligence (AI). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Indian PM’s advisors suggest AI might lead to ‘mass schizophrenia’ 2024-02-01 at 05:36 By Laura Dobberstein Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity India’s Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EACPM) has penned a document warning that current global AI

Congress told how Chinese attackers plan to incite ‘societal chaos’ in the US 2024-02-01 at 03:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle American public is way ahead of them Chinese attackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” on American infrastructure and “cause societal chaos” in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on

Cloud Software Group effectively snuffs open source XenCenter via a README file 2024-02-01 at 02:46 By Simon Sharwood Users should examine other options Disgruntled VMware users contemplating the open source cut of XenCenter as an alternative need to think again. In December the Cloud Software Group quietly canned the offering with an update to the

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes 2024-02-01 at 00:02 By Katyanna Quach You could say this was tailored for Swift US Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would allow victims portrayed in non-consensual AI-generated pornographic deepfakes to sue the creators for damages. … This article is an

‘I’m sorry for everything…’ Facebook’s Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing 2024-01-31 at 23:46 By Thomas Claburn Meta boss told in social media safety probe: ‘Your product is killing people’ Executives from the top social media companies faced contentious, sometimes contemptuous, questioning from the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing titled:

RunC Flaws Enable Container Escapes, Granting Attackers Host Access 2024-01-31 at 22:46 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the runC command line tool that could be exploited by threat actors to escape the bounds of the container and stage follow-on attacks. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-21626, CVE-2024-23651, CVE-2024-23652, and CVE-2024-23653, have been collectively

79% of organizations faced a ransomware attack in H2 2023 2024-01-31 at 22:31 By According to a recent report, 79% of respondents said their company had been the ‘victim of a ransomware attack’ between June and December 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source