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Marqeta names Heather Gantt-Evans as CISO 30/08/2023 at 15:16 By Marqeta has announced the appointment of Heather Gantt-Evans as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

DDoS attacks rise 40% in Q2 2023, affecting banks, gaming & e-commerce 30/08/2023 at 15:16 By According to a study the number of DDoS attacks has increased by 40% over the past six months, increasingly targeting diverse industries including banking, e-commerce and education. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed

Meteorite is 4.6 billion years old and still rocking the solar system dating scene 30/08/2023 at 14:46 By Lindsay Clark Presence of aluminium isotope might help age other objects from space At 4.6 billion years old, meteorite Erg Chech 002 is among the oldest found on Earth. A new analysis of its composition promises to

Alert: Juniper Firewalls, Openfire, and Apache RocketMQ Under Attack from New Exploits 30/08/2023 at 14:31 By Recently disclosed security flaws impacting Juniper firewalls, Openfire, and Apache RocketMQ servers have come under active exploitation in the wild, according to multiple reports. The Shadowserver Foundation said that it’s “seeing exploitation attempts from multiple IPs for Juniper J-Web CVE-2023-36844 (&

Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster 30/08/2023 at 13:33 By Tobias Mann Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips? Tesla still dreams of fueling its motors with actual full self-driving (FSD) capabilities, and it’s blowing piles of cash on AI infrastructure to reach that milestone.…

Let’s give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army 30/08/2023 at 12:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Black Mirror? Never heard of it Sometimes it feels like the most terrifying ideas from science fiction are simply fodder for the future of the military – case in point, word reaching us that the US Army

This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it 30/08/2023 at 11:32 By Thomas Claburn Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, Scalene, I’m beggin’ of you please improve my code Interview  To make Python code run faster, you can now get performance optimization advice from the Scalene Python profiler and its associated

The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on 30/08/2023 at 10:32 By Rupert Goodwins A queue gone mad leads to surprising results for 3D printing – but still no regulation Opinion  Just like an owner of a new puppy waking up to a scene of destruction, 3D printer users

Critical Vulnerability Alert: VMware Aria Operations Networks at Risk from Remote Attacks 30/08/2023 at 10:31 By VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution. The most severe of the flaws is CVE-2023-34039 (CVSS score: 9.8),

We’re about to hit peak device count, says HTC veep, as AR becomes one screen to rule them all 30/08/2023 at 09:17 By Laura Dobberstein First you’ll live in a headset. Then come the chip implants … The number of screens people use each day has probably peaked, according to Alvin Wang Graylin, global vice

Managed Vulnerability Scanning Made Easy 30/08/2023 at 08:16 By Jay Gill, Head of Global Vulnerability Management There are few security tasks more important, yet more difficult, to conduct than a vulnerability scanning program. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source

India set to launch Sun-spotting satellite on Saturday 30/08/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood Meanwhile its Moon rover dodges a crater and spots sulphur India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is already busy running its successful Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission, but still plans to put even more items on its to-do list with the launch of Aditya-L1

FBI Dismantles QakBot Malware, Frees 700,000 Computers, Seizes $8.6 Million 30/08/2023 at 08:01 By A coordinated law enforcement effort codenamed Operation Duck Hunt has felled QakBot, a notorious Windows malware family that’s estimated to have compromised over 700,000 computers globally and facilitated financial fraud as well as ransomware. To that end, the U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) said the malware is

Toyota Japan back on the road after probably-not-cyber attack halted production 30/08/2023 at 07:03 By Simon Sharwood Malfunction took 14 plants offline for 36 hours. Oh, what a … nah, too obvious Toyota Japan has recovered from what it’s described as a “malfunction in the production order system” that halted production on 28 lines across

AI-powered monitors to defend Washington DC against aerial threats 30/08/2023 at 05:32 By Katyanna Quach Replaces surveillance systems installed after 9/11 – and years before drones became a threat The Pentagon will upgrade the air surveillance technology it uses around Washington DC with a computer vision system that can identify and warn officials of suspicious

Meta reckons China’s troll farms could learn proper OpSec from Russia’s fake news crews 30/08/2023 at 04:04 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Claims to have taken down two colossal networks, with ‘Secondary Infektion’ schooling ‘Spamouflage’ Russia appears to be “better” at running online trolling campaigns aimed at pushing its political narratives than China, according to Meta’s

AMD teases stripped down Siena Epycs for telcos, edge at Hot Chips 30/08/2023 at 02:47 By Tobias Mann Hopes cool-running Zen cores can socket to Intel’s Xeon D – maybe with a smaller socket Hot Chips  AMD teased at the Hot Chips conference this week its upcoming edge-friendly Siena family of Epyc processors, sharing word

Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc 30/08/2023 at 02:11 By Katyanna Quach And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI Cloud Next  Google is rolling out a bunch of generative AI models and tools across its Workspace apps and Cloud, including an expansion

University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu 30/08/2023 at 00:47 By Thomas Claburn Halls of learning are stuck offline, but go Wolverines! The University of Michigan has isolated itself from the internet but, hey, everything’s fine!… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Apple security boss faces iPads-for-gun-permits bribery charge… again 29/08/2023 at 23:34 By Jude Karabus ‘We will continue fighting this case’ global chief’s lawyer tells us An appeals court has reversed a 2021 decision to drop a bribery charge against Apple’s head of global security, who is accused of donating iPads worth up to $80,000 to