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Balancing Risk and Innovation – A CISO Perspective 2024-09-25 at 18:16 By In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Jill Knesek, CISO of Blackline, and former FBI Special Agent in the Cyber Crime Squad, we talk about balancing risk & innovation from a CISO’s perspective. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security […]

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US may exempt chip giants’ billion-dollar fabs from some rules, but the laws of physics still apply 2024-09-25 at 17:47 By Gavin Bonshor AC/DC: America’s power grid might need to brace itself Analysis  The multibillion-dollar gamble of Intel and other semiconductor industry players on US-based chipmaking is shaking a lot more than just technological trees

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Cybersecurity Researchers Warn of New Rust-Based Splinter Post-Exploitation Tool 2024-09-25 at 17:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged the discovery of a new post-exploitation red team tool called Splinter in the wild. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 shared its findings after it discovered the program on several customers’ systems. “It has a standard set of features

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Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent 2024-09-25 at 17:31 By Vienna-based privacy non-profit noyb (short for None Of Your Business) has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority (DPA) against Firefox maker Mozilla for enabling a new feature called Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA) without explicitly seeking users’

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75% of organizations say phishing poses the greatest AI risk 2024-09-25 at 17:03 By Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) were analyzed in a recent report by Team8. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Campaigners claim ‘Privacy Preserving Attribution’ in Firefox does the opposite 2024-09-25 at 16:49 By Richard Speed Tracking alternative is less invasive than other methods, but is opt out by default Privacy activist group noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla over a “Privacy Preserving Attribution” feature that was quietly enabled in the Firefox browser following

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Apple ropes off 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI models 2024-09-25 at 16:17 By Thomas Claburn Carve-out expected to get larger over time, too Apple’s on-device AI model, dubbed Apple Intelligence, will require 4 GB of device storage space, and more at a later date. That’s about the size of an HD movie,

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Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft 2024-09-25 at 15:01 By Paul Kunert Mountain View versus Redmond: Fight over cloud software licensing policies gets formal Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging Microsoft software licensing policies are anti-competitive, including claims customers are being charged four times more

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ChatGPT macOS Flaw Could’ve Enabled Long-Term Spyware via Memory Function 2024-09-25 at 15:01 By A now-patched security vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT app for macOS could have made it possible for attackers to plant long-term persistent spyware into the artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s memory. The technique, dubbed SpAIware, could be abused to facilitate “continuous data exfiltration

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Expert Tips on How to Spot a Phishing Link 2024-09-25 at 15:01 By Phishing attacks are becoming more advanced and harder to detect, but there are still telltale signs that can help you spot them before it’s too late. See these key indicators that security experts use to identify phishing links:1. Check Suspicious URLs  Phishing

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Northern Ireland cops whose info was leaked in 2023 may get £240M+ damages 2024-09-25 at 14:48 By Connor Jones Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details Police officer victims have yet to receive any compensation after a document was mistakenly published in 2023 containing data belonging to members

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Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways 2024-09-25 at 14:03 By Laura Dobberstein Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation The dominance of US-based hyperscalers like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in subsea cables has reshaped the industry and put critical infrastructure at risk, an Australian think tank

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Agentic AI in SOCs: A Solution to SOAR’s Unfulfilled Promises 2024-09-25 at 13:31 By Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) was introduced with the promise of revolutionizing Security Operations Centers (SOCs) through automation, reducing manual workloads and enhancing efficiency. However, despite three generations of technology and 10 years of advancements, SOAR hasn’t fully delivered on

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Messaging app makers’ dilemma: Keeping comms private and funding open source 2024-09-25 at 13:03 By Richard Speed After Telegram CEO was charged in France, Element bosses mull the challenges Interview  Not upsetting law enforcement with end to end encryption and finding a sustainable way to fund open source development are challenges facing messaging giants and

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ChatGPT macOS Flaw Could’ve Enabled Long-Term Spyware via Memory Function 2024-09-25 at 12:46 By A now-patched security vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT app for macOS could have made it possible for attackers to plant long-term persistent spyware into the artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s memory. The technique, dubbed SpAIware, could be abused to facilitate “continuous data exfiltration

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Fujitsu wins spot on £600M framework after vowing to sit out public sector 2024-09-25 at 12:31 By Lindsay Clark Post Office scandal? What scandal? Fujitsu has won a place on a UK tech framework worth up to £600 million ($802 million) despite promising not to bid for public sector contracts while its role in the

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AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand 2024-09-25 at 11:49 By Richard Speed Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts AI PCs are forecast to account for 43 percent of PCs by 2025, says tech market sales number cruncher and consultancy Gartner,

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Transportation Companies Hit by Cyberattacks Using Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Malware 2024-09-25 at 10:46 By Transportation and logistics companies in North America are the target of a new phishing campaign that delivers a variety of information stealers and remote access trojans (RATs). The activity cluster, per Proofpoint, makes use of compromised legitimate email accounts belonging

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NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own 2024-09-25 at 10:32 By Tobias Mann Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good Researchers at IBM and NASA this week released an open source AI climate model designed to accurately predict weather patterns while consuming fewer compute resources compared to traditional physics-based simulations.…

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CISA Flags Critical Ivanti vTM Vulnerability Amid Active Exploitation Concerns 2024-09-25 at 10:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS

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