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UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities 10/11/2023 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark But with technical and insurance industry question unanswered, a few potholes may lie ahead The UK government has promised to “clarify and update” the law to allow the introduction of self-driving vehicles to the country’s roads, but it is set to […]

Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god 10/11/2023 at 14:47 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever Opinion  At KubeCon North America, I did a little exercise I’ve done before at major technology shows. I went around the

Datacenter would spoil beautiful view … of former industrial waste dump 10/11/2023 at 13:47 By Dan Robinson Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council Plans to build a datacenter campus on a landfill site overlooking the M25 motorway near London have been rejected on grounds it would significantly alter the character and appearance of the

Alert: ‘Effluence’ Backdoor Persists Despite Patching Atlassian Confluence Servers 10/11/2023 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,”

The New 80/20 Rule for SecOps: Customize Where it Matters, Automate the Rest 10/11/2023 at 12:16 By There is a seemingly never-ending quest to find the right security tools that offer the right capabilities for your organization. SOC teams tend to spend about a third of their day on events that don’t pose any threat to their

Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store 10/11/2023 at 11:32 By Liam Proven Despite what you may have heard, it’s not as proprietary as the trolls think Ubuntu Summit  One of the most common bits of FUD about Ubuntu’s Snap packaging format is that it’s proprietary – but exploring the documentation shows

Iran-Linked Imperial Kitten Cyber Group Targeting Middle East’s Tech Sectors 10/11/2023 at 11:31 By A group with links to Iran targeted transportation, logistics, and technology sectors in the Middle East, including Israel, in October 2023 amid a surge in Iranian cyber activity since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks have been attributed by

ICBC hit by ransomware impacting global trades 10/11/2023 at 11:02 By Laura Dobberstein CitrixBleed patch has been available for around a month China’s largest bank, ICBC, was hit by ransomware that resulted in disruption of financial services (FS) systems on Thursday Beijing time, according to a notice on its website.… This article is an excerpt

Stealthy Kamran Spyware Targeting Urdu-speaking Users in Gilgit-Baltistan 10/11/2023 at 08:47 By Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering hole attack designed to deliver a previously undocumented Android spyware dubbed Kamran. The campaign, ESET has discovered, leverages Hunza News (urdu.hunzanews[.]net), which, when

Thou shalt question accepted wisdom 10/11/2023 at 08:17 By The Ten Commandments of Leadership all contain wisdom and truth, but security leaders should examine them closely rather than adopt them as articles of faith. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Build the security champions 10/11/2023 at 08:17 By Security leader Burke Brownfeld interviews Wendy Bashnan, Director of Security and Fire Protection at Scout Motors, about resilience, security culture and more. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors 10/11/2023 at 05:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying The co-founders and co-CEOs of failed startup Bitwise appeared in a California court Thursday accused of cheating investors out of $100 million by making up bank

Microsoft claims Iran’s role in Israel-Hamas conflict was ‘opportunistic’ 10/11/2023 at 04:33 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle At least two destructive attacks, but – crucially – after deadly conflict erupted Iran’s role in the Israel-Hamas war has been largely “reactive and opportunistic,” says Microsoft, in contrast to reports that Tehran’s spies plotted cyberattacks against Israel to

Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids 10/11/2023 at 03:47 By Thomas Claburn Perp said to have secretly recorded patients – and digitally undressed them using web neural networks A child psychiatrist was jailed Wednesday for the production, possession, and transportation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including the use

DDoS-like attack brought down OpenAI this week, not just its purported popularity 10/11/2023 at 02:48 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Lab launches dataset sharing initiative for its own benefit OpenAI’s ChatGPT assistant and APIs weathered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack this week, according to the super-lab.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Downfall fallout: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing, lawsuit claims 10/11/2023 at 01:32 By Thomas Claburn Billions of data-leaking processors sold despite warnings and patch just made them slower, punters complain Intel has been sued by a handful of PC buyers who claim the x86 goliath failed to act when informed five

Don’t worry about those new export rules, China – Nvidia’s already got more sanctions-compliant GPUs for ya 10/11/2023 at 00:32 By Tobias Mann Chips limbo-dance right under Biden’s performance limits It’s been less than a month since the Biden administration effectively barred the export of most American-designed AI accelerators to China, yet Nvidia has already

OSHA finds 3M violated hazardous workplace regulations 09/11/2023 at 23:46 By The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) decided that 3M Company violated federal regulations leading to an employee death. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Late Qualcomm cofounder teleports $200M into SETI to bankroll hunt for alien life 09/11/2023 at 23:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Someone hit the zero key one too many times? Not that anyone’s complaining Alien seekers at the SETI Institute have received an organizationally life-altering $200 million (£164 million) bequest from late Qualcomm cofounder Franklin Antonio, the

Are high fees killing some types of DApps? Cartesi explains on Hashing It Out 09/11/2023 at 22:02 By Cointelegraph By Elisha Owusu Akyaw Erick de Moura argues that on blockchain networks with high fees, some types of decentralized applications don’t survive because users are only willing to part with cash for a few specific kinds.