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Norway to hit Meta with fines over Facebook user privacy from next week 08/08/2023 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson Book to hit face, but Zuckerberg & co tell El Reg it will challenge the ban Norway’s data protection authorities are to proceed with fines against Meta over privacy violations against its citizens, to the tune […]

Study: Higher education leaders see security as top priority 08/08/2023 at 15:20 By A new study found that top institutional leaders are increasingly focused on improving both physical and network security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CISA joins partners to warn of routinely exploited vulnerabilities    08/08/2023 at 15:20 By A joint advisory urges organizations to implement secure by design practices and prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities to reduce risk of compromise. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Utah schools granted $3M for AI gun protection technology 08/08/2023 at 15:20 By The Utah State Board of Education has granted a $3 million contract to distribute artificial intelligence gun detection to Utah schools. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Micron joins the CXL 2.0 party with a 256GB memory expander 08/08/2023 at 14:47 By Tobias Mann RAM disguised as an SSD? What will they come up with next? Micron has become the latest chipmaker to announce a compute express link (CXL) 2.0-compliant memory expansion module capable of strapping up to 256GB of DRAM to

China – which surveils everyone everywhere – floats facial recognition rules 08/08/2023 at 13:47 By Laura Dobberstein Regulator says with a straight face that it should not be allowed to analyze ethnicity China has released draft regulations to govern the country’s facial recognition technology that include prohibitions on its use to analyze race or ethnicity.…

Understanding Active Directory Attack Paths to Improve Security 08/08/2023 at 13:02 By Introduced in 1999, Microsoft Active Directory is the default identity and access management service in Windows networks, responsible for assigning and enforcing security policies for all network endpoints. With it, users can access various resources across networks. As things tend to do, times,

S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it’s in the clouds 08/08/2023 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart In 2020, global ERP giant SAP offered to provide “clarity and choice” on the future of its core platform, vital to the

New Yashma Ransomware Variant Targets Multiple English-Speaking Countries 08/08/2023 at 12:21 By An unknown threat actor is using a variant of the Yashma ransomware to target various entities in English-speaking countries, Bulgaria, China, and Vietnam at least since June 4, 2023. Cisco Talos, in a new write-up, attributed the operation with moderate confidence to an

Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world 08/08/2023 at 11:32 By Dan Robinson They kept that quiet Amazon is the most successful manufacturer of Arm server chips, accounting for just over half of Arm-based server CPUs currently deployed, while some chipmakers are also now betting on Arm-based Windows PCs.…

Europe sticks a monopoly probe into Adobe-Figma merger 08/08/2023 at 10:47 By Katyanna Quach US, UK watchdogs also question proposed $20B deal The European Commission has launched an “in-depth” investigation into Adobe’s $20 billion deal to acquire Figma, citing concerns that the proposed takeover could harm competition in the design software industry.… This article is

LOLBAS in the Wild: 11 Living-Off-The-Land Binaries Used for Malicious Purposes 08/08/2023 at 10:32 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of 11 living-off-the-land binaries-and-scripts (LOLBAS) that could be maliciously abused by threat actors to conduct post-exploitation activities.  “LOLBAS is an attack method that uses binaries and scripts that are already part of the system

North Korean hackers had access to Russian missile maker for months, say researchers 08/08/2023 at 09:32 By Laura Dobberstein Kim Jong Un’s cyber-goons aren’t above attacking the regime’s few friends Two North Korean hacker groups had access to the internal systems of Russian missile and satellite developer NPO Mashinostoyeniya for five to six months, cyber

Zoom updates its legalese explicitly promising not to feed vidchats to AIs 08/08/2023 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Welcome – but weird – after months-old policy change that seemingly allowed it went viral Vidchat and collaboration outfit Zoom has insisted it never intended to give the impression vidchats it hosts would be fed into an

Putting the pride into healthcare security officer training 08/08/2023 at 07:16 By Huntsville Hospital Health Systems’ P.R.I.D.E Academy standardizes its hospital security officer training with certifications and de-escalation. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Product spotlight on access control 08/08/2023 at 07:16 By Access control products help security leaders protect vulnerable physical spaces including schools, offices and hospitals. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China’s great CPU hope – Loongson – finds it’s only four years behind Intel 08/08/2023 at 06:30 By Simon Sharwood Mission not accomplished Loongson Technology, the company leading China’s charge to develop CPUs locally, has revealed its most recent desktop effort performs at a level comparable with Intel’s tenth-generation Core architecture.… This article is an

Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again 08/08/2023 at 03:32 By Thomas Claburn Not-so smart tech, or officers, it seems Early one February morning this year, six Detroit police officers brought an arrest warrant to the home of Porcha Woodruff. A 32-year-old mother of two, she was eight-months pregnant

Scientists struggle to follow recipe for holy grail room-temp superconductor 08/08/2023 at 03:02 By Dan Robinson Race to replicate LK-99, and the process used to create it, hits plenty of hurdles Scientists are struggling to verify South Korean eggheads’ claim to have synthesized a material that exhibits superconductivity at room temperature and normal pressure.… This

ChatGPT’s odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip 08/08/2023 at 01:17 By Thomas Claburn But its suggestions so annoyingly plausible ChatGPT, OpenAI’s fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software programming questions more than half the time, according to a study from Purdue University. That said, the bot was convincing enough