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Department of Labor proposes workplace inspection policy revisions 29/08/2023 at 23:34 By The Department of Labor announced a proposal to revise regulations around workplace inspections and who an employee can select as a representative. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

FBI-led Operation Duck Hunt shoots down Qakbot 29/08/2023 at 23:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Malware crooks’ infrastructure well and truly plucked, for now Uncle Sam today said an international law enforcement effort dismantled Qakbot, aka QBot, a notorious botnet and malware loader responsible for losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide, and seized more

Perhaps AI is going to take away coding jobs – of those who trust this tech too much 29/08/2023 at 22:18 By Thomas Claburn Llama 2 avoids errors by staying quiet, GPT-4 gives long, if useless, samples Computer scientists have evaluated how large language models (LLMs) answer Java coding questions from the Q&A site StackOverflow

NASA to outdo most Americans on internet speeds, gigabit kit heading to the ISS 29/08/2023 at 21:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo See hot singles in your area! Well, -453.8 F singles at least NASA’s laser-based, gigabit-speed space internet is set to get its first orbital users just as soon as a new refrigerator-sized piece of hardware

10 ways traditional companies can benefit from partnering with blockchain projects 29/08/2023 at 20:00 By Cointelegraph By Cointelegraph Innovation Circle The right blockchain project partnership can smoothly guide a traditional business into the emerging world of Web3. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Reports of the PC’s death are greatly exaggerated, says IDC 29/08/2023 at 19:17 By Laura Dobberstein Demand may be ‘tepid at best’ but analyst sees return to pre-2019 levels next year The PC market is expected to return to growth in 2024, according to estimates from IDC analysts.… This article is an excerpt from The

80% of organizations expect ransomware spending to increase 29/08/2023 at 19:17 By Ransomware was analyzed in a recent report by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) finding that ransomware is seen as a top threat for organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

DarkGate Malware Activity Spikes as Developer Rents Out Malware to Affiliates 29/08/2023 at 18:04 By A new malspam campaign has been observed deploying an off-the-shelf malware called DarkGate. “The current spike in DarkGate malware activity is plausible given the fact that the developer of the malware has recently started to rent out the malware to

Chinese Hacking Group Exploits Barracuda Zero-Day to Target Government, Military, and Telecom 29/08/2023 at 18:04 By A suspected Chinese-nexus hacking group exploited a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to breach government, military, defense and aerospace, high-tech industry, and telecom sectors as part of a global espionage campaign. Mandiant, which is

Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next 29/08/2023 at 17:36 By Dan Robinson TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic Cloud Next  Google is razor-focused on AI at this year’s Cloud Next, with a slew of hardware projects, including TPU updates, GPU options, and

86% of organizations using AI agree on need for clear AI guidelines 29/08/2023 at 17:36 By Organizations’ leadership and workforce were surveyed by Conversica on artificial intelligence (AI) use and opinions, including data security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds 29/08/2023 at 16:17 By Liam Proven On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too Replacing a sort algorithm in the FreeBSD kernel has improved its boot speed by a factor of 100 or more… and although it’s aimed at a micro-VM, the gains

Think Before You Scan: The Rise of QR Codes in Phishing 29/08/2023 at 16:16 By Mike Casayuran QR Codes, the square images that contain coded information that can be scanned by a smartphone, are becoming increasingly popular. With the number of smartphone users reaching 6.92 billion this year, access to the information within these ingenious

CISA publishes resource for migrating to post-quantum cryptography   29/08/2023 at 15:34 By CISA urges organizations to begin early planning for migration to post-quantum cryptographic standards by developing quantum-readiness roadmaps. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Study finds increase in cybersecurity attacks fueled by generative AI 29/08/2023 at 15:17 By A new report analyzes stressors caused by generative AI, with 51% of security professionals saying they are likely to leave their job over the next year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Using SSPM to navigate SaaS security breaches 29/08/2023 at 15:02 By The popularity of SaaS presents a variety of security challenges, specifically when it comes to controlling and monitoring its usage.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Survey Provides Takeaways for Security Pros to Operationalize their Remediation Life Cycle 29/08/2023 at 15:01 By Ask any security professional and they’ll tell you that remediating risks from various siloed security scanning tools requires a tedious and labor-intensive series of steps focused on deduplication, prioritization, and routing of issues to an appropriate “fixer” somewhere in

More UK cops’ names and photos exposed in supplier breach 29/08/2023 at 14:51 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle All 47,000 Met Police officers and staff reportedly accessed in break-in London’s Metropolitan Police has said a third-party data breach exposed staff and officers’ names, ranks, photos, vetting levels, and salary information.… This article is an excerpt from

NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal 29/08/2023 at 13:47 By Lindsay Clark Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement England’s health data watchdog has warned the government quango in charge of the country’s health service that it must show how it will avoid vendor lock-in in

Citrix NetScaler Alert: Ransomware Hackers Exploiting Critical Vulnerability 29/08/2023 at 13:01 By Unpatched Citrix NetScaler systems exposed to the internet are being targeted by unknown threat actors in what’s suspected to be a ransomware attack. Cybersecurity company Sophos is tracking the activity cluster under the moniker STAC4663. Attack chains involve the exploitation of CVE-2023-3519, a critical code injection vulnerability