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SCARLETEEL Cryptojacking Campaign Exploiting AWS Fargate in Ongoing Campaign 11/07/2023 at 13:48 By Cloud environments continue to be at the receiving end of an ongoing advanced attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL, with the threat actors now setting their sights on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fargate. “Cloud environments are still their primary target, but the tools and […]

Putting LLMs into production is a monumental task – vector databases could light the way 11/07/2023 at 13:34 By Lindsay Clark MongoDB joins joins Cassandra, PostgreSQL and SingleStore in implementing AI-friendly features Last month MongoDB announced its public preview of Vector Search among the updates to its developer platform of its Atlas database-as-a-service. The move

Ofcom proposes Wi-Fi and cellphones share upper 6GHz band 11/07/2023 at 12:47 By Dan Robinson It’s where the cool kids are at… and ‘international harmonization’ is important Brit telecoms regulator Ofcom has kicked off a consultation over proposals that would see both mobile networks and Wi-Fi users have access to frequencies in the upper 6GHz

Beware of Big Head Ransomware: Spreading Through Fake Windows Updates 11/07/2023 at 12:09 By A developing piece of ransomware called Big Head is being distributed as part of a malvertising campaign that takes the form of bogus Microsoft Windows updates and Word installers. Big Head was first documented by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs last month, when it discovered multiple variants

EU gives its blessing to reopen data pipelines to the US 11/07/2023 at 11:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘We already have various legal options in the drawer,’ says Max Schrems, lawyer who killed the first two deals The European Commission has adopted an agreement with the US, reopening transatlantic data flows between America and EU nations

Barts NHS hack leaves folks on tenterhooks over extortion 11/07/2023 at 10:46 By Iain Thomson BlackCat pounces on 7TB of data and theatens to release it Staff at one of the UK’s largest hospital groups have spent a nervous week wondering if private data, stolen from their employer’s IT systems by a ransomware gang, is

Foxconn, India’s star recruit for semiconductor manufacturing, quits 11/07/2023 at 09:33 By Laura Dobberstein Departure won’t hurt a bit, insists IT minister, as JV partner presses ahead Taiwanese tech manufacturer Hon Hai Technology Group, aka Foxconn, said on Monday it is withdrawing from a $19.5 million semiconductor and display manufacturing joint venture with Indian mining

Sega COO backs away from blockchain 11/07/2023 at 08:33 By Simon Sharwood Sonic the Hedgehog unsure NFTs are golden rings worth collecting Sega’s co-COO Shuji Utsumi has said the Japanese gaming giant still hasn’t figured out what blockchain is good for, and may not make it part of a flagship “supergame” slated for a 2026

Apple Issues Urgent Patch for Zero-Day Flaw Targeting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari 11/07/2023 at 08:05 By Apple has released Rapid Security Response updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The WebKit bug, cataloged as CVE-2023-37450, could allow threat actors to achieve arbitrary

China striving to be first source of artificial general intelligence, says think tank 11/07/2023 at 07:34 By Simon Sharwood The work is hard to spot – which is bad for science, but good for paranoia Chinese researchers published 850 papers pertaining to artificial general intelligence (AGI) between 2018 and 2022, indicating Beijing’s efforts to create

Preventing retail theft and protecting employees 11/07/2023 at 07:20 By Apprehending shoplifters while keeping employees safe. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Product spotlight on video surveillance 11/07/2023 at 07:20 By Security magazine highlights different video surveillance solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI) technology for enhanced video management.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Almost all classic US video games ‘critically endangered’ 11/07/2023 at 06:07 By Iain Thomson Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, says history foundation Many of the games released in the USA that we grew up with and love are out of print, which is a bummer for those

Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency 11/07/2023 at 04:03 By Thomas Claburn How open-source tech can be quietly manipulated to mess up apps French outfit Mithril Security has managed to poison a large language model (LLM) and have made it available to developers to prove a

Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama 11/07/2023 at 00:49 By Thomas Claburn Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses Oracle claims IBM is trying to kill open source competition among Linux distributions to boost its bottom line, and has pledged to keep distributing Oracle Linux

Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments 10/07/2023 at 23:47 By Tobias Mann Relax, says chip giant, it’s an easy fix Anyone running Intel’s 4th-Gen Xeon Scalable processors should be on the lookout for a firmware update to address the issue that briefly forced the x86 giant to halt shipments of mid-core-count chips.… This

TSA predicts more intercepted firearms as travel increases 10/07/2023 at 23:47 By As of June 30, the Transportation Security Administration has intercepted 3,251 firearms at various security checkpoints, an increase from 2022. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

University of Richmond receives ‘Stop the Bleed’ grant 10/07/2023 at 22:17 By The University of Richmond (UR) has received funding to expand campus safety. UR’s public safety team will deploy the “Stop the Bleed” program. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Fedora Project mulls ‘privacy-respecting’ usage telemetry 10/07/2023 at 22:02 By Liam Proven Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn’t alienated enough people recently The Fedora Project is considering a proposal to introduce some limited usage telemetry in a future release. Predictably, quite a few users are not delighted with this development.… This article is an excerpt

GenAI will amplify cybersecurity threats, but there’s hope 10/07/2023 at 20:47 By Whether firms adopt generative AI (GenAI) or not, hackers and security researchers are already exploring how it could be abused to attack anyone. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source