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MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes 01/08/2023 at 14:49 By Katyanna Quach Open source image-massage works … up to a point Computer scientists claim they’ve come up with a way to thwart machine learning systems’ attempts to digitally manipulate images and create deepfakes.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View […]

European Bank Customers Targeted in SpyNote Android Trojan Campaign 01/08/2023 at 14:17 By Various European customers of different banks are being targeted by an Android banking trojan called SpyNote as part of an aggressive campaign detected in June and July 2023. “The spyware is distributed through email phishing or smishing campaigns and the fraudulent activities are executed

GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default 01/08/2023 at 13:47 By Liam Proven Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it? The GNOME desktop is considering adding support for automatic window tiling. This could be a significant productivity boost for the

What is Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)? 01/08/2023 at 13:32 By Data Security Posture Management is an approach to securing cloud data by ensuring that sensitive data always has the correct security posture – regardless of where it’s been duplicated or moved to. So, what is DSPM? Here’s a quick example: Let’s say you’ve built

Researchers Expose Space Pirates’ Cyber Campaign Across Russia and Serbia 01/08/2023 at 13:32 By The threat actor known as Space Pirates has been linked to attacks against at least 16 organizations in Russia and Serbia over the past year by employing novel tactics and adding new cyber weapons to its arsenal. “The cybercriminals’ main goals are still

Aspiration to deploy new UK nuclear reactor every year a ‘wish’, not a plan 01/08/2023 at 12:33 By Jude Karabus Notably stretching the target requires ‘a credible pathway towards its delivery,’ says committee The British government is hoping to hit 24 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity by 2050 as well as roll out a new

China’s APT31 Suspected in Attacks on Air-Gapped Systems in Eastern Europe 01/08/2023 at 12:33 By A nation-state actor with links to China is suspected of being behind a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe that took place last year to siphon data stored on air-gapped systems. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky attributed the intrusions

AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off 01/08/2023 at 11:49 By Lindsay Clark Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans Cloud giant AWS has picked table format Apache Iceberg to extend the reach of its Redshift data warehouse to data lakes, in a move replicated by IBM’s

US military battling cyber threats from within and without 01/08/2023 at 10:33 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle As if attacks from China weren’t enough, one of the Air Force’s own has reportedly gone rogue The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who potentially gained access to crucial American

AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier’s guardian 01/08/2023 at 09:48 By Thomas Claburn If you need to trick a classifier into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts Analysis  A Google scientist has demonstrated that OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM), despite its widely cited capacity

China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway 01/08/2023 at 09:18 By Laura Dobberstein Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.…

Panasonic liquidates its liquid crystal display business 01/08/2023 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood Here’s your metaphor for the state of the world: factory will be re-used to make EV batteries Panasonic has announced it has quit the Liquid Crystal Display business and will use the factory where it made the units to build batteries instead.…

Cybercriminals Renting WikiLoader to Target Italian Organizations with Banking Trojan 01/08/2023 at 07:32 By Organizations in Italy are the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages a new strain of malware called WikiLoader with an ultimate aim to install a banking trojan, stealer, and spyware called Ursnif (aka Gozi). “It is a sophisticated downloader with the objective of

Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica 01/08/2023 at 07:17 By Katyanna Quach Not quite a controlled deorbit but not an uncontrolled one, either Video  The European Space Agency’s Aeolus weather satellite has reentered Earth’s atmosphere after engineers sent their final commands to destroy the hardware. The machine, or whatever remains of

How remote patient monitoring safeguards patient care and optimizes workflows 01/08/2023 at 07:02 By The healthcare sector has seen some of the most significant advances in technology. From hospital-based machinery to health trackers, technology providers are continually innovating to help practitioners monitor patient health. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS

Hong Kong High Court declines to force big tech to ban protest song 01/08/2023 at 06:34 By Laura Dobberstein Looks like it’s time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again Hong Kong’s High Court has rejected a government bid to ban online dissemination of a protest song that is often mistaken as

Dell pumps out reference designs, plumps services, to bring AI on-prem 01/08/2023 at 04:36 By Dan Robinson Go ahead, spend up big. But be warned: analyst tells us many models ‘will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish’ Dell can’t wait to tap into the frenzy of spending on …

The semiconductor biz is sick, but demand for SiC chips that improve EVs is accelerating 01/08/2023 at 03:34 By Tobias Mann Onsemi CEO says demand for silicon carbide surged – as investors pile in While chipmakers, memory vendors, and fabs collectively bemoan slow demand and excess inventories, one segment of the semiconductor biz appears to

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s ‘stupid’ performance-killing fTPM RNG 01/08/2023 at 02:08 By Tobias Mann Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all Ongoing issues with Linux and AMD’s fTPM – the chip designer’s firmware-based TPM – appear to be wearing on kernel overseer Linus Torvalds’ nerves, who has suggested

US Air Force burns more money on electric flying taxis 01/08/2023 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Waiting on that thumbs up from the FAA The US Air Force is dipping its toe into electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft by trialing a short-hop air taxi that has yet to get FAA certification to fly. …