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“Mysterious Team Bangladesh” Targeting India with DDoS Attacks and Data Breaches 03/08/2023 at 13:16 By A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to over 750 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. “The group most frequently attacks logistics, government, and financial sector organizations in India and Israel,” Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity […]

Brit healthcare body rapped for WhatsApp chat sharing patient data 03/08/2023 at 12:31 By Jude Karabus Time for a proper secure clinical image transfer system, perhaps? Staff at NHS Lanarkshire – which serves over half a million Scottish residents – used WhatsApp to swap photos and personal info about patients, including children’s names and addresses.…

Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries 03/08/2023 at 11:32 By Richard Currie Unmanned aircraft trial will skip delays caused by boat-battering weather Mail delivery has long been touted as a use case for drone technology, but it’s the wind-blasted archipelago of Orkney, off the coast of northern Scotland, that has beaten the

Prepare for plenty more pain from Ivanti’s MDM flaws, warn cyber agencies 03/08/2023 at 10:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Invaders already spent four or more months frolicking inside Norwegian government servers Intruders who exploited a critical Ivanti bug to compromise 12 Norwegian government agencies spent at least four months looking around the organizations’ systems and

Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers’ Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats 03/08/2023 at 10:03 By Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that it identified a set of highly targeted social engineering attacks mounted by a Russian nation-state threat actor using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats. The tech giant attributed the attacks to a

Airbus to help with International Space Station replacement 03/08/2023 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Orbiter is supposed to be ready by 2028, so JV partners had better hurry Airbus will help build a replacement for the International Space Station (ISS), planned for five years from now.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids 03/08/2023 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties – parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue +COMMENT  The Chinese government has floated a plan to limit the amount of time minors can

Researchers Discover Bypass for Recently Patched Critical Ivanti EPMM Vulnerability 03/08/2023 at 08:17 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a bypass for a recently fixed actively exploited vulnerability in some versions of Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), prompting Ivanti to urge users to update to the latest version of the software. Tracked as CVE-2023-35082 (CVSS score: 10.0) and

AWS claims it’s running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon 03/08/2023 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood That’s vastly more cores than Xeons Intel sells to the public Amazon Web Services claims to be running a custom 96-core fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Expanding the security candidate pool 03/08/2023 at 07:16 By Expanding the security candidate pool is a critical step in better aligning security with the business and creating cross-functional teams. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools 03/08/2023 at 05:02 By Laura Dobberstein Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn’t saying how AI on wheels is practical China’s AI-forward web giant Baidu has delivered on its promise to have its ERNIE large language model (LLM)

AMD says it’ll jump through Uncle Sam’s hoops to sell AI chips to China 03/08/2023 at 04:17 By Tobias Mann Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits After the US slapped restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators into China, Nvidia – and later Intel – launched nerfed versions of their silicon

Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now 03/08/2023 at 02:32 By Katyanna Quach AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe Meta on Wednesday released AudioCraft, a set of three AI models capable of automatically creating sound from text descriptions.… This article is

We’re in the OWASP-makes-list-of-security-bug-types phase with LLM chatbots 02/08/2023 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Ten ways you can blow a hole in your software by misusing AI tech The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has released a top list of the most common security issues with large language model (LLM) applications to help developers

Meta says it’ll ask Euro peeps nicely before hitting them with personalized ads 02/08/2023 at 22:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle UK mulls an ‘appropriate response’ Meta, after fighting European GDPR-related lawsuits for years, has said it will seek explicit consent from EU users before using their data to serve up highly targeted ads.… This article

Delaware school district installs AI weapons detection 02/08/2023 at 22:46 By Appoquinimink School District in Delaware is updating its security measures by implementing AI weapons detection across its high schools. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Up to 40% of all Arm servers are deployed in China 02/08/2023 at 22:17 By Dan Robinson At the same time, company pipped to be preparing for IPO Servers powered by Arm chips are on the rise, especially in China, where new figures estimate that 40 percent of Arm-based servers are now deployed.… This article

How to Build a More Secure and Resilient Supply Chain 02/08/2023 at 21:02 By For threat actors looking to create widespread damage, attacking a third-party supplier with services and software that organizations can’t always control the security measures for continues to be an enticing target. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original

Beyond the hype, AI promises leg up for scientific research 02/08/2023 at 20:31 By Lindsay Clark However boffins in academia need to match the progress made in Big Tech, and always challenge poor data quality The last decade has seen great strides in the application of artificial intelligence to scientific discovery, but practitioners need to

Cyberattack response times are accelerating 02/08/2023 at 20:30 By According to a recent Immersive Labs report, organizations saw an accelerated cyberattack response time, from 29 days to 19 days from 2021 to 2022. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source