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AI’s role in future advanced social engineering attacks 09/10/2023 at 18:16 By The combination of AI’s adaptive algorithms and data processing capabilities has empowered mal actors to develop complex social engineering attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Qualtrics culls 780 jobs amid ‘complex’ growth spurt 09/10/2023 at 17:47 By Lindsay Clark Staff get Zoom meeting to hear how they might be hit after phase of rapid hiring ends Qualtrics, which creates web software that allows users to create surveys and generate reports based on employees or customer sentiments, has axed 780 roles

SpaceX accused of paying less to women and minority engineers 09/10/2023 at 16:47 By Dan Robinson Suit alleges female staff were forced to start as technical writers despite doing largely same work SpaceX is facing another employment lawsuit, this time by a female former worker who claims the company pays women and minority employees less

Cybercriminals Using EvilProxy Phishing Kit to Target Senior Executives in U.S. Firms 09/10/2023 at 16:31 By Senior executives working in U.S.-based organizations are being targeted by a new phishing campaign that leverages a popular adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing toolkit named EvilProxy to conduct credential harvesting and account takeover attacks. Menlo Security said the activity started in July 2023,

Hacktivist attacks erupt in Middle East following Hamas assault on Israel 09/10/2023 at 16:17 By Connor Jones Groups range from known collectives to new outfits eager to raise their profile Hacktivism efforts have proliferated rapidly in the Middle East following the official announcement of a war between Palestine and Israel.… This article is an excerpt

Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code 09/10/2023 at 15:19 By Richard Speed Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk Still using Python 3.7? Even Microsoft thinks it is time to move on after the Windows behemoth finally deprecated support for the language

Rationalize security spend: Exposure management & security validation 09/10/2023 at 15:18 By New methods of looking at exposure management and security control validation enable businesses  to prioritize security investments with business and risk context. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Webinar: How vCISOs Can Navigating the Complex World of AI and LLM Security 09/10/2023 at 15:01 By In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has become ubiquitous across various industries. This wave of innovation promises improved efficiency and performance, but lurking beneath the surface are

Datacenter cabling biz Volex confirms digital break-in 09/10/2023 at 14:47 By Paul Kunert All sites operational, no ‘material’ financial impact expected but stock markets still worried Volex, the British integrated maker of critical power and data transmission cables, confirmed this morning that intruders accessed data after breaking into its tech infrastructure.… This article is an

Security Patch for Two New Flaws in Curl Library Arriving on October 11 09/10/2023 at 14:16 By The maintainers of the Curl library have released an advisory warning of two forthcoming security vulnerabilities that are expected to be addressed as part of updates released on October 11, 2023. This includes a high severity and a low-severity flaw tracked under

High-Severity Flaws in ConnectedIO’s 3G/4G Routers Raise Concerns for IoT Security 09/10/2023 at 14:16 By Multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in ConnectedIO’s ER2000 edge routers and the cloud-based management platform that could be exploited by malicious actors to execute malicious code and access sensitive data. “An attacker could have leveraged these flaws to

“I Had a Dream” and Generative AI Jailbreaks 09/10/2023 at 14:16 By “Of course, here’s an example of simple code in the Python programming language that can be associated with the keywords “MyHotKeyHandler,” “Keylogger,” and “macOS,” this is a message from ChatGPT followed by a piece of malicious code and a brief remark not to

When Microsoft complains that you’re a monopolist you know things are bad 09/10/2023 at 13:17 By Iain Thomson Google and Amazon are both in antitrust trouble as the US gets tough Kettle  Amazon and Google are under the fierce glare of the US Federal Trade Commission, which under the leadership of chair Lina Khan has

Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher 09/10/2023 at 12:32 By Liam Proven Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience – owners of older Macs FOSS Fest  As Apple distances itself from older kit, the OpenCore Legacy Patcher tool should win new fans.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair 09/10/2023 at 11:47 By Rupert Goodwins All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we’ll take them now please Opinion  It had to happen. Amazon and Microsoft are under investigation for distorting the UK’s public infrastructure cloud market following complaints to

Softbank boss Masayoshi Son predicts artificial general intelligence is a decade away 09/10/2023 at 10:03 By Laura Dobberstein ‘Investo-bot, make me rich’ is his vision – powered by Arm chips, natch Anyone still hungry for outrageous rhetoric and outsized praise for AI should tune in to last week’s keynote from SoftBank World, where the Japanese

China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge and … Blu-ray? 09/10/2023 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a revised “Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of Computing Infrastructure” that emphasizes increased deployment of edge computing

Strategies for developing an effective security program: Build the right solution 09/10/2023 at 07:16 By In part two of the Security Program Design series, security leader J. Nicole McDargh breaks down the steps to developing an effective security program. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Emergency and mass notification 09/10/2023 at 07:16 By Security magazine highlights emergency and mass communications products for schools, organizations and government systems. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Gaza-Linked Cyber Threat Actor Targets Israeli Energy and Defense Sectors 09/10/2023 at 07:01 By A Gaza-based threat actor has been linked to a series of cyber attacks aimed at Israeli private-sector energy, defense, and telecommunications organizations. Microsoft, which revealed details of the activity in its fourth annual Digital Defense Report, is tracking the campaign under the