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Why Hardsec Matters: From Protecting Critical Services to Enhancing Resilience 2024-08-13 at 14:47 By Traditionally, the focus has been on defending against digital threats such as malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks by detecting them and responding. However, as cyber threats become more sophisticated. There is a growing recognition of the importance of measures that stop […]

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Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million 2024-08-13 at 14:31 By Connor Jones Incident sounds like a BEC fraud targeting an unwitting staffer Luxembourg-based chemicals and manufacturing giant Orion SA is telling US regulators that it will lose out on around $60 million after it was targeted by a criminal wire fraud

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Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls 2024-08-13 at 14:01 By Jessica Lyons Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old Despite worries about criminals using prompt injection to trick large language models (LLMs) into leaking sensitive data or performing other destructive actions, most

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Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran 2024-08-13 at 12:46 By Richard Speed The Reg flies to Germany to visit the Speyer and Sinsheim palaces of engineering marvels Geek’s Guide  The Register‘s Geek’s Guide series for explorers who love feats of tech and engineering prowess, took a trip to the European mainland

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FBI Shuts Down Dispossessor Ransomware Group’s Servers Across U.S., U.K., and Germany 2024-08-13 at 12:46 By The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday announced the disruption of online infrastructure associated with a nascent ransomware group called Dispossessor (aka Radar). The effort saw the dismantling of three U.S. servers, three United Kingdom servers, 18

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UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership 2024-08-13 at 11:46 By Dan Robinson Report suggests govt get cracking on a proper ownership structure survey and … hang on, did they forget the Midlands? UK government may need to revisit the National Semiconductor Strategy to guard against potential supply chain disruptions and

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AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they? 2024-08-13 at 10:47 By Thomas Claburn We can misremember it for you wholesale AI chatbots, known for their habit of hallucinating, can induce people to hallucinate too, researchers claim.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage 2024-08-13 at 09:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? def con  The electronic badges at DEF CON have long been a hot commodity for attendees,

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‘Digital arrest’ scams are big in India and may be spreading 2024-08-13 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein Bad guys claim they’re cops, keep you on hold for hours until you pay to make loved ones’ crimes go away A woman in the Indian city of Delhi last week found herself under “digital arrest” – a

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Ukraine Warns of New Phishing Campaign Targeting Government Computers 2024-08-13 at 08:47 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new phishing campaign that masquerades as the Security Service of Ukraine to distribute malware capable of remote desktop access. The agency is tracking the activity under the name UAC-0198. More

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Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS 2024-08-13 at 07:18 By Simon Sharwood Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly Elon Musk has blamed a “DDoS” attack for a forty-minute delay in the start of his live-streamed interview, hosted on X, with presidential candidate Donald Trump.… This article is an

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Closing the cybersecurity skills gap: 3 steps risk leaders must take 2024-08-13 at 07:17 By The workforce issues plaguing the cybersecurity sector are no longer a trend — they’re an urgent call to action that leaders need to take steps to answer. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View

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AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs 2024-08-13 at 06:19 By Matthew Connatser Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you’ll like SMM of this Some AMD processors dating back to 2006 have a security vulnerability that’s a boon for particularly underhand malware and rogue insiders, though the chip designer is

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Small datacenters face the axe under China’s new energy policy 2024-08-13 at 05:31 By Matthew Connatser Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 ‘Beautiful China’ goal China’s digital infrastructure providers have been told they need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and energy

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Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS 2024-08-13 at 02:31 By Thomas Claburn You don’t get to be the biggest business in the world by being nice Patreon today said Apple will soon take a 30 percent cut of new subscriptions bought via its iOS app.… This article is

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Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects? 2024-08-13 at 00:46 By Thomas Claburn SpaceX ‘WasteX’ Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth The US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), a federation of public interest advocacy groups, has asked the FCC to halt

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Intel’s microcode fix to save Raptor Lake chips may only work with default power settings 2024-08-12 at 23:46 By Matthew Connatser All those BIOS options that promise better performance? Enabling them might kill your processor Owners of Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen Core processors may need to stick to the chip giant’s official power limits

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DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure 2024-08-12 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included Def Con  With an average of 30,000 attendees per year at the DEF CON security conference in Las Vegas,

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Cisco plans to slash 4,000 more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push 2024-08-12 at 21:31 By Tobias Mann Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday’s earnings release Networking goliath Cisco will reportedly slash thousands of jobs as it focuses on growing its cybersecurity business and capitalizing on AI demand.… This article is an excerpt from

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