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Ex-IBM sales veteran sues for access to health benefits 19/11/2023 at 19:02 By Thomas Claburn Complaint alleges age discrimination harms certain retirees A former IBM enterprise salesperson has sued the mainframe titan claiming its recent healthcare benefit changes represents age discrimination.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

8Base Group Deploying New Phobos Ransomware Variant via SmokeLoader 18/11/2023 at 15:01 By The threat actors behind the 8Base ransomware are leveraging a variant of the Phobos ransomware to conduct their financially motivated attacks. The findings come from Cisco Talos, which has recorded an increase in activity carried out by cybercriminals. “Most of the group’s Phobos variants

What’s really going on with Chrome’s June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not work 18/11/2023 at 14:17 By Thomas Claburn Manifest V3 transition deemed ‘far from terrible’ and yet not great for content filters Special report  Web advert blockers and other Chrome extensions will stop working by June

Russian Cyber Espionage Group Deploys LitterDrifter USB Worm in Targeted Attacks 18/11/2023 at 10:31 By Russian cyber espionage actors affiliated with the Federal Security Service (FSB) have been observed using a USB propagating worm called LitterDrifter in attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. Check Point, which detailed Gamaredon’s (aka Aqua Blizzard, Iron Tilden, Primitive Bear, Shuckworm, and Winterflounder) latest tactics, branded

Double Moon crater riddle solved? Spent Chinese rocket booster carrying mystery payload crash landed 18/11/2023 at 02:34 By Katyanna Quach We come in peace, or rather, pieces Last year, not one but two craters unexpectedly appeared on the Moon, leaving us all to wonder: what could have caused that?… This article is an excerpt from

OpenAI board fires CEO: Control Altman delete 18/11/2023 at 01:02 By Katyanna Quach Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the directors came for his OpenAI’s board of directors just fired CEO Sam Altman for not being “consistently candid” in his communications.… This article is an excerpt from

What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting off Europe’s stiff antitrust rules 18/11/2023 at 00:30 By Iain Thomson Gatekeeper status under DMA? Don’t you know who I am? The Court of Justice of the European Union on Friday confirmed it has now received four legal complaints – two from Apple plus one each

Apple’s quest for modem independence from Qualcomm is going nowhere fast 18/11/2023 at 00:05 By Dan Robinson iPhones could still be running Snapdragons into 2026 Apple continues to struggle to develop a modem chip for the iPhone to replace those it buys from Qualcomm, and it may not be ready by the time the current

Scaleway Ampere servers promise AI smarts without breaking the bank 17/11/2023 at 23:17 By Dan Robinson We’ll see when they reveal the prices Ampere Computing and French cloud operator Scaleway are pushing Arm-based servers as a more cost-efficient way of operating AI-based services, especially when it comes to inferencing.… This article is an excerpt from

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft beams back a ‘Hello’ from 10 million miles away 17/11/2023 at 22:17 By Richard Speed Transmitting data from deep space, with a frickin’ laser beam NASA has fired up its Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) aboard the agency’s Psyche spacecraft and received test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers)

LockBit redraws negotiation tactics after affiliates fail to squeeze victims 17/11/2023 at 21:17 By Connor Jones Cybercrime group worried over dwindling payments … didn’t they tell them to Always Be Closing? In response to growing frustrations inside the LockBit organization, its leaders have overhauled the way they negotiate with ransomware victims going forward.… This article

Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites nail online orders from orbit 17/11/2023 at 20:03 By Richard Speed Late-stage capitalism … in spaaace Amazon is boasting a 100 percent success rate for its Protoflight mission, having demonstrated that a pair of prototype Project Kuiper satellites are capable of streaming video, conducting two-way video calls, and buying stuff on

IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content 17/11/2023 at 19:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo X, meanwhile, tells us its brand safety controls are just as strong – or stronger – than other platforms IBM has paused advertising on X after reports emerged that its ads had been served alongside antisemitic

SonicWall swallows Solutions Granted amid cybersecurity demand surge 17/11/2023 at 18:03 By Connor Jones CEO Bob VanKirk makes near-20-year partnership official, teases big things coming to EMEA Channel-focused cybersecurity company SonicWall is buying Virginia-based MSSP Solutions Granted – its first acquisition in well over a decade.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS’s twilight years 17/11/2023 at 17:21 By Richard Speed Microsoft has listened, but only to people who like its AI assistant Despite Windows 10 users clamoring for the company to change course on its avowed termination date for Win10 support, Microsoft has instead chosen to spread

40% of organizations have a clear understanding of their AI use 17/11/2023 at 17:20 By According to a recent cybersecurity predictions report, the top 2024 risk cited by internal audit leaders is cyber and data security (80%). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Bots and fraud make up 73% of website and app traffic 17/11/2023 at 17:20 By A recent cyber threat report found that bots and human fraud farms were responsible for billions of attacks in the first half of 2023 and into Q3. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View

3 ways AI can handle third-party vendor and supplier risk challenges 17/11/2023 at 17:03 By As third-party threats become increasingly sophisticated, it’s taking more time for organizations to find and remediate third-party risk.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Beware: Malicious Google Ads Trick WinSCP Users into Installing Malware 17/11/2023 at 16:50 By Threat actors are leveraging manipulated search results and bogus Google ads that trick users who are looking to download legitimate software such as WinSCP into installing malware instead. Cybersecurity company Securonix is tracking the ongoing activity under the name SEO#LURKER. “The malicious

Roshan Navagamuwa hired as EVP and Chief Information Officer at AIG 17/11/2023 at 16:32 By Roshan Navagamuwa has been hired as Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at American International Group (AIG).  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source