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Mozilla Rushes to Patch WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit in Firefox and Thunderbird 13/09/2023 at 05:16 By Mozilla on Tuesday released security updates to resolve a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after Google released a fix for the issue in its Chrome browser. The […]

China caught – again – with its malware in another nation’s power grid 13/09/2023 at 03:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Obtaining a disruptive capability could be one possible motivation behind this surge in attacks’ Espionage-ware thought to have been developed by China has once again been spotted within the power grid of a neighboring nation.… This

Don’t worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it’ll build safe, trustworthy generative AI 13/09/2023 at 01:02 By Katyanna Quach White House bags more voluntary commitments Eight big names in tech, including Nvidia, Palantir, and Adobe, have agreed to red team their AI applications before they’re released and prioritize research that will make their systems more

Grab those updates: Microsoft flings out fixes for already-exploited bugs 13/09/2023 at 00:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Plus: Adobe and Android also tackle abused-in-the-wild flaws Patch Tuesday  It’s every Windows admin’s favorite day of the month: Patch Tuesday. Microsoft emitted 59 patches for its September update batch, including two for bugs that have already been

TSMC gobbles up $430M slice of Intel’s IMS Nanofab unit 13/09/2023 at 00:17 By Tobias Mann Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 TSMC is on a spending spree. The Taiwanese factory goliath just acquired a 10 percent stake in Intel-owned IMS Nanofabrication for $430 million and

TSMC gobbles up $430M slice of Intel’s IMS Nanofabrics unit 12/09/2023 at 23:47 By Tobias Mann Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 TSMC is on a spending spree. The Taiwanese factory goliath just acquired a 10 percent stake in Intel-owned IMS Nanofabrication for $430 million and

Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup 12/09/2023 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn Thanks, Europe. Couldn’t have done it without EU Apple surprised almost no one on Thursday with the announcement of several iPhone 15 models and a renovated smartwatch, the details of which were more or less known or guessed by

US amends hypersonic weapons strategy: If you can’t zoom with ’em, boom ’em 12/09/2023 at 22:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo DARPA awards Boeing $70.5M to develop intercept technology No longer content to trail its rivals in the development of hypersonic weapons, the US military is turning to development of hypersonic weapon interceptors.… This article is an

Healthcare looks to AI to prevent drug diversion 12/09/2023 at 22:01 By Drug diversion is when a healthcare worker takes prescriptions meant for patients either to use or sell, and hospitals are using AI to prevent it. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

OpenSSL 1.1.1 reaches end of life for all but the well-heeled 12/09/2023 at 21:02 By Richard Speed $50k to breathe new life into its corpse. The rest of us must move on to OpenSSL 3.0 OpenSSL 1.1.1 has reached the end of its life, making a move to a later version essential for all, bar

Washington left with chip on shoulder after Huawei exposes export loophole lapses 12/09/2023 at 20:17 By Dan Robinson Back to the drawing board with those China sanctions then, eh? The US looks to be tightening up its technology export restrictions on China following Huawei’s release of a new 5G smartphone using homemade chips, a feat

James Webb spies distant exoplanet that could be wet, wild, and Hycean 12/09/2023 at 19:47 By Richard Speed That or it’s just really gassy The James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver the goods with scientists publishing insights into the atmospheric properties of a habitable-zone exoplanet.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Financial sector leading industry for generative AI adoption 12/09/2023 at 19:16 By The adoption of new technology such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) was analyzed in a recent report by Information Services Group (ISG). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI 12/09/2023 at 18:47 By Jude Karabus Another would be copyright class action Pulitzer Prize winning US novelist Michael Chabon and several other writers have filed a proposed class action accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement for allegedly pulling their work into the datasets used to train

47% report economic unrest as greatest security-impacting hazard 12/09/2023 at 18:31 By According to a recent global security report, economic unrest is expected to be the greatest security-impacting hazard in the next 12 months. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google’s Chrome gets caught with its WebP down, offers hasty patch-up 12/09/2023 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Exploit observed in the wild as Mountain View pushes out updates Google has rushed out a fix for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser, noting that an exploit already exists in the wild.… This article is an excerpt

Thousands of Code Packages Vulnerable to Repojacking Attacks 12/09/2023 at 17:46 By Eduard Kovacs Despite GitHub’s efforts to prevent repository hijacking, cybersecurity researchers continue finding new attack methods, and thousands of code packages and millions of users could be at risk. Repojacking is a repository hijacking method that involves renamed GitHub usernames. If a user

Chat2024 stuffs US election hopefuls into generative AI so you can be an ‘informed voter’ 12/09/2023 at 17:18 By Richard Currie Jean Baudrillard would’ve LOVED This Comment  The Postmodernist French philosopher Jean Baudrillard was known for his concept of hyperreality, where the real and imaginary are confused.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Oracle disappoints market with revenue miss as Ellison hints at Azure database move 12/09/2023 at 16:47 By Lindsay Clark Don’t expect ‘armies of programmers’ to rewrite Cerner, says Larry, talking up low-code app dev platform APEX Software and hardware giant Oracle disappointed the stock markets with slightly less than expected revenue for Q1 of 2024,

Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze 12/09/2023 at 16:01 By Dan Robinson Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order Apple looks to have further delayed the introduction of its own 5G modem chips after it extended an agreement with Qualcomm to use