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Two new versions of OpenZFS fix long-hidden corruption bug 04/12/2023 at 19:17 By Liam Proven Version 2.2.2 and also 2.1.14, showing that this wasn’t a new issue in the latest release The bug that was very occasionally corrupting data on file copies in OpenZFS 2.2.0 has been identified and fixed, and there’s a fix for […]

Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts 04/12/2023 at 18:32 By Dan Robinson To blame? The usual suspect – AI’s appetite for chips The semiconductor market is poised to return to growth next year, driven by AI increasing the volume of orders for memory and causing a

Data breach affects Michigan healthcare companies 04/12/2023 at 18:32 By The Michigan Attorney General announced that Corewell Health suffered a data breach affecting Michigan residents, including Social Security numbers. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Tech renders iconic rockers Kiss genuinely immortal 04/12/2023 at 18:02 By Richard Currie Final farewell show unveils the band’s digital form After half a century of recording and performing, rock icons Kiss closed out “The End of Road” farewell tour on Saturday night. But the encore revealed something we all knew deep down to be

Exposed Hugging Face API tokens offered full access to Meta’s Llama 2 04/12/2023 at 17:17 By Connor Jones With more than 1,500 tokens exposed, research highlights importance of securing supply chains in AI and ML The API tokens of tech giants Meta, Microsoft, Google, VMware, and more have been found exposed on Hugging Face, opening

New BLUFFS Bluetooth Attack Expose Devices to Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks 04/12/2023 at 16:48 By New research has unearthed multiple novel attacks that break Bluetooth Classic’s forward secrecy and future secrecy guarantees, resulting in adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) scenarios between two already connected peers. The issues, collectively named BLUFFS, impact Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through 5.4. They are tracked under

Amazon hitches a ride with SpaceX for Project Kuiper launches 04/12/2023 at 16:32 By Richard Speed Working rockets are needed, and only a direct rival can provide for now Amazon is signing a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to help “support deployment plans” for the Project Kuiper satellite broadband initiative.… This article

AWS exec: ‘Our understanding of open source has started to change’ 04/12/2023 at 15:47 By Tim Anderson Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more Interview  AWS is wary of vendor-driven open source projects, performs business health checks on all its open source dependencies, and suffered impact on the development

Make a Fresh Start for 2024: Clean Out Your User Inventory to Reduce SaaS Risk 04/12/2023 at 15:00 By As work ebbs with the typical end-of-year slowdown, now is a good time to review user roles and privileges and remove anyone who shouldn’t have access as well as trim unnecessary permissions. In addition to saving

New P2PInfect Botnet MIPS Variant Targeting Routers and IoT Devices 04/12/2023 at 15:00 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an emerging botnet called P2PInfect that’s capable of targeting routers and IoT devices. The latest version, per Cado Security Labs, is compiled for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages (MIPS) architecture, broadening its capabilities and reach.

Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux 04/12/2023 at 14:03 By Liam Proven Signs of the times: Linux’s compatibility improves, while x86-32 recedes from Apple Valve Software’s latest update announcement for the Steam client contains news for both Mac and Linux users – and the portents should concern not only gamers.…

HP exec says quiet part out aloud when it comes to locking in print customers 04/12/2023 at 13:32 By Paul Kunert Funny how marketing messages change depending on the audience HP is squeezing more margin out of print customers, the result of a multi-year strategy to convert unprofitable business into something more lucrative, and says

40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs 04/12/2023 at 12:47 By Richard Speed The legacy can still be felt today It is 40 years since Turbo Pascal revolutionized the coding marketplace with a slick (for the time) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and performance to spare. So why aren’t we all using

World’s largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan 04/12/2023 at 11:47 By Laura Dobberstein JT-60SA produces largest volume of plasma ever made by humans, paves way for ITER Japan’s joint fusion reactor project with the European Union (EU), the JT-60SA, was inaugurated in Naka, Japan on Friday, marking the start of experimental operations for

LogoFAIL: UEFI Vulnerabilities Expose Devices to Stealth Malware Attacks 04/12/2023 at 11:01 By The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code from various independent firmware/BIOS vendors (IBVs) has been found vulnerable to potential attacks through high-impact flaws in image parsing libraries embedded into the firmware. The shortcomings, collectively labeled LogoFAIL by Binarly, “can be used by threat actors

The 2023 Annual Guarding Report: Finding the right mix of human and machine 04/12/2023 at 08:16 By In this year’s report, security executives and guarding companies identify trends in security guarding throughout 2023, from emerging robotics to training strategies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft Warns of Malvertising Scheme Spreading CACTUS Ransomware 04/12/2023 at 08:01 By Microsoft has warned of a new wave of CACTUS ransomware attacks that leverage malvertising lures to deploy DanaBot as an initial access vector. The DanaBot infections led to “hands-on-keyboard activity by ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198), culminating in the deployment of CACTUS

New Relic’s cyber-something revealed as attack on staging systems, some users 04/12/2023 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood Ongoing investigation found evidence of stolen employee creds and social engineering Nine days after issuing a vaguely worded warning about a possible cyber security incident, web tracking and analytics outfit New Relic has revealed a two-front attack.… This

Linus Torvalds flags holiday-mode changes to next kernel merge window 04/12/2023 at 06:17 By Simon Sharwood Penguin emperor ponders whether kernel contributors will code across the festive season, or humbug it ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a coder was stirring, not even their mouse.… This article is an excerpt

Creating a single AI-generated image needs as much power as charging your smartphone 04/12/2023 at 04:48 By Katyanna Quach PLUS: Microsoft to invest £2.5B in UK datacenters to power AI, and more AI in brief  Using a text-to-image model to craft an AI-generated image can require almost the same amount of power as that required