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Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack 07/12/2023 at 00:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Issue has been around since at least 2012 A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple, Android and Linux devices and inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands, according to a software engineer at drone […]

90% of global energy companies experienced a third-party data breach 06/12/2023 at 23:32 By Third-party data breaches against energy organizations were analyzed in a recent report, finding that 90% of global organizations have had a breach. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire 06/12/2023 at 23:04 By Tobias Mann Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv’s H100 AMD is pushing advanced packaging and chiplets to the limit with the launch of its Instinct MI300-series accelerators, part of a quest

Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it’s beating OpenAI and others – mostly 06/12/2023 at 22:47 By Katyanna Quach Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors Google has unveiled Gemini, its most powerful class of transformer-based models yet, which are capable of processing text, images, audio, and video. … This article

Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype 06/12/2023 at 22:03 By Connor Jones Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment Despite a huge surge in awareness over the last year, just 10 percent of organizations have adopted generative AI technology in production environments, according to a survey

69% of organizations facing ransomware attacks paid the ransom 06/12/2023 at 21:47 By According to a recent Claroty report, 75% of respondents reported being targeted by ransomware in the past year and 69% paid the ransom. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Elon Musk’s xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares 06/12/2023 at 21:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon? The world’s richest man is begging for cash again, this time he’d like $1 billion for his recently formed AI outfit, with individual investors told to offer at

Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China ban 06/12/2023 at 20:47 By Dan Robinson Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed ‘the very next day’ Nvidia chief Jensen Huang reckons Huawei and Intel are potential challengers for the GPU-maker’s crown in the AI accelerator space, and says it

Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training 06/12/2023 at 20:17 By Tobias Mann Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Google revealed a performance-optimized version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called the v5p designed to reduce the time commitment associated with training large language models.… This article is an

Jennifer Williams named Vice President, Information Security at HOOPP 06/12/2023 at 20:17 By Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) has announced Jennifer Williams will be the new Vice President, Information Security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Here’s how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus 06/12/2023 at 19:17 By Katyanna Quach Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Future spacecraft flying close to Enceladus may be able to detect amino acids, an essential class of organic compounds for life on

Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts 06/12/2023 at 18:33 By Richard Speed Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it’ll probably cost you Red Hat has suggested that if customers are worried about the impending end of life for CentOS 7, they might wish to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise

Cryptocurrency: The geopolitical and economic impacts 06/12/2023 at 18:17 By In Episode 18 of The Cybersecurity & Geopolitical Discussion, Lisa Forte, Phil Ingram and Ian Thornton-Trump discuss the impact of cryptocurrency on geopolitical and economic conflict. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch list 06/12/2023 at 18:02 By Connor Jones Apparently no one thought to check if this D-Link router ‘issue’ was actually exploitable A security vulnerability previously added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog (KEV), which was recognized by CVE Numbering Authorities

40% of Google Drive files contain sensitive information 06/12/2023 at 18:01 By According to a new report, documents that had been shared externally often contained confidential information, with 18,000 files flagged as having “highly sensitive” data, like PII. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

42% of flagged messages are impersonation warnings 06/12/2023 at 18:01 By According to a report, 42% of organizations say employees with BYOD policies that use tools like WhatsApp have led to new security incidents. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Alert: Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts 06/12/2023 at 17:16 By Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (AWS STS) as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks. The service enables threat actors to impersonate user identities and roles in cloud environments, Red

NASA engineers got their parachute wires crossed for OSIRIS-REx mission 06/12/2023 at 17:03 By Richard Speed ‘Inconsistent wiring label definitions’ resulted in drogue being cut before it was deployed NASA has revealed how a wiring mix-up resulted in a parachute problem on its otherwise successful OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.… This article is an excerpt

Trustwave SpiderLabs Report: LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Vs. the Manufacturing Sector 06/12/2023 at 17:02 By As the manufacturing sector continues its digital transformation, Operational Technology (OT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) are becoming increasingly exposed to cyberattacks, particularly those involving ransomware. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View

EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the door 06/12/2023 at 16:49 By Lindsay Clark Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips The European Commission is entering 11th-hour negotiations to hammer out legislation governing the development and use of AI in time to retain its position as first mover