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A closer look at Harvard and Google’s HPC heart research project 18/08/2023 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson That’s a massive workload you’ve got there – how much does it cost? Google is working with Harvard University on a medical research program using public cloud resources rather than a supercomputer to run very large scale simulations..… […]

Railway company agrees to new safety measures following derailment 18/08/2023 at 17:17 By Following a train derailment in February 2023, Norfolk Southern Corp has settled with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA hosts nation’s largest annual election security exercise 18/08/2023 at 15:49 By This week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) hosted the nation’s largest annual election security exercise. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

14 Suspected Cybercriminals Arrested Across Africa in Coordinated Crackdown 18/08/2023 at 15:49 By A coordinated law enforcement operation across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 suspected cybercriminals, INTERPOL announced Friday. The exercise, conducted in partnership with AFRIPOL, enabled investigators to identify 20,674 cyber networks that were linked to financial losses of more than

New Wave of Attack Campaign Targeting Zimbra Email Users for Credential Theft 18/08/2023 at 15:49 By A new “mass-spreading” social engineering campaign is targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server with an aim to collect their login credentials for use in follow-on operations. The activity, active since April 2023 and still ongoing, targets a

The Vulnerability of Zero Trust: Lessons from the Storm 0558 Hack 18/08/2023 at 15:49 By While IT security managers in companies and public administrations rely on the concept of Zero Trust, APTS (Advanced Persistent Threats) are putting its practical effectiveness to the test. Analysts, on the other hand, understand that Zero Trust can only be

LG’s $1,000 TV-in-a-briefcase is unlikely to travel much further than the garden 18/08/2023 at 15:33 By Richard Currie ‘Perfect’ for your next camping trip! For three hours… We’ve all been there – the camping holiday where the Sun shines for about three hours and the rest of the trip is spent sitting in a tent

Tammi Morton takes on Chief Security Officer role at UnitedHealth Group 18/08/2023 at 15:33 By Experienced security executive Tammi Morton has been named the new Chief Security Officer at UnitedHealth Group. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

New BlackCat Ransomware Variant Adopts Advanced Impacket and RemCom Tools 18/08/2023 at 14:16 By Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it found a new version of the BlackCat ransomware (aka ALPHV and Noberus) that embeds tools like Impacket and RemCom to facilitate lateral movement and remote code execution. “The Impacket tool has credential dumping and remote service execution modules that

What DARPA wants, DARPA gets: A non-hacky way to fix bugs in legacy binaries 18/08/2023 at 14:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo When you need to patch a problem in your drone and no one’s got the source Imagine a world where, rather than inspiring fear and trembling in even the stoutest of IT professional’s hearts, snipping

Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters 18/08/2023 at 12:47 By Tobias Mann If you thought a 700W GPU was hot, imagine what it takes to keep racks full of 15kW accelerators cool Analysis  The mad dash to secure and deploy AI infrastructure is forcing datacenter operators to reevaluate the way

Google Chrome’s New Feature Alerts Users About Auto-Removal of Malicious Extensions 18/08/2023 at 10:32 By Google has announced plans to add a new feature in the upcoming version of its Chrome web browser to alert users when an extension they have installed has been removed from the Chrome Web Store. The feature, set for release

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times 18/08/2023 at 09:49 By Katyanna Quach The search for a politically neutral ‘truth’ goes on Poll  Academics have developed a method to assess whether ChatGPT’s output displays political bias, and assert the OpenAI model revealed a “significant and systemic” preference for left-leaning parties in the

SUSE to flip back into private ownership just two-and-a-bit years after listing 18/08/2023 at 09:01 By Simon Sharwood Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO Linux loving software house SUSE is to quit the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and become a private company again, just two years after it

India’s digital public goods diplomacy scores wins around the world 18/08/2023 at 07:05 By Simon Sharwood France likes its payment system, Saudi Arabia is close to co-operating, and the Caribbean is calling India’s government has announced that the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share India Stack,

‘AI-written history’ of Maui wildfire becomes Amazon bestseller, fuels conspiracies 18/08/2023 at 05:17 By Katyanna Quach Bizarrely, Bezos’s bookshop is also promoting a book about the book A book that purports to recount the history of this month’s deadly Maui wildfire has become a bestseller on Amazon, despite reviewers panning the work because its prose

YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn’t do that 18/08/2023 at 04:32 By Thomas Claburn Web giant comes out swinging, says allegations ‘without merit’ YouTube has allegedly been tracking children online and targeting them with personalized ads, potentially in violation of its agreement with the FTC and of the US Children’s

Add ‘writing malware’ to the list of things generative AI is not very good at doing 18/08/2023 at 03:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle But it may help with fuzzing Analysis  Despite the hype around criminals using ChatGPT and various other large language models to ease the chore of writing malware, it seems this generative AI

Don’t just patch your Citrix gear, check for intrusion: Two bugs exploited in wild 18/08/2023 at 01:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle About 2,000 NetScaler installations feared compromised as CISA raises alarm over ShareFile Miscreants are actively exploiting critical bugs in two of Citrix’s products, both of which the business IT player fixed earlier this summer.…

Tesla knew Autopilot’s limitations killed a driver – but didn’t fix it, engineers claim 18/08/2023 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo This software couldn’t handle cross traffic, court told Tesla’s Autopilot engineers have claimed the automaker’s leadership not only knew the software was unable to detect and respond to cross traffic, it did nothing to fix