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Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models 2024-02-27 at 17:55 By Thomas Claburn Before building the Torment Nexus, consider the risks Computer scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD) have asked robot makers to do further safety research before wiring language and vision models to their hardware.… This article is an excerpt […]

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The average open source vulnerability is 2.5 years old 2024-02-27 at 17:32 By According to a report, nearly 75% of commercial codebases assessed for risk contain open source components impacted by high-risk vulnerabilities. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Apple Vision Pro rentals take China by storm ahead of official release 2024-02-27 at 17:03 By Richard Currie Factoring in the deposit, you’d be better off running away with it Apple is a big deal in China. Despite competition from four homegrown smartphone vendors, the iPhone comes top with a 17.3 percent market share, with

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WordPress LiteSpeed Plugin Vulnerability Puts 5 Million Sites at Risk 2024-02-27 at 17:03 By A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could enable unauthenticated users to escalate their privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-40000, the vulnerability was addressed in October 2023 in version 5.7.0.1. “This plugin suffers from unauthenticated site-wide stored

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Microsoft’s February Windows 11 security update unravels at 96% for some users 2024-02-27 at 16:18 By Richard Speed Was your Patch Tuesday followed by a Rollback Wednesday? You’re not alone Microsoft says that February 13’s security update for Windows 11 might “face installation issues.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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VEC and BEC attacks rise in the energy and infrastructure industry 2024-02-27 at 16:03 By New information shows that the energy and infrastructure industry is experiencing more cyberattacks utilizing social engineering tactics.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Open-Source Xeno RAT Trojan Emerges as a Potent Threat on GitHub 2024-02-27 at 16:03 By An “intricately designed” remote access trojan (RAT) called Xeno RAT has been made available on GitHub, making it available to other actors at no extra cost. Written in C# and compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, the open-source RAT

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40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later… welcome to Google Cloud 2024-02-27 at 15:20 By Dan Robinson Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred Airline reservation technology biz Sabre Corporation has almost completed a mammoth migration to Google Cloud – one that would have tested the nerves of the

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Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract 2024-02-27 at 14:51 By Lindsay Clark Latest £33M awarded without competition in 11+ years contract that’s now worth well over half a billion Northern Ireland’s Education Authority has awarded UK tech outsourcer Capita a managed services contract extension worth £33 million ($41.8 million) without

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ESA’s ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted 2024-02-27 at 13:54 By Richard Speed Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent The European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite has re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. While no damage to property was reported, some impressive shots were taken of the spacecraft starting

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Miracle WM, a new tiling window manager built on Mir 2024-02-27 at 13:17 By Liam Proven Try preliminary version of a new environment in a snap Version 0.1.0 of Miracle-wm is very incomplete still, yet shows that interesting stuff is happening on the back of Canonical’s Mir display server.… This article is an excerpt from

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From Alert to Action: How to Speed Up Your SOC Investigations 2024-02-27 at 13:16 By Processing alerts quickly and efficiently is the cornerstone of a Security Operations Center (SOC) professional’s role. Threat intelligence platforms can significantly enhance their ability to do so. Let’s find out what these platforms are and how they can empower analysts.

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New Hugging Face Vulnerability Exposes AI Models to Supply Chain Attacks 2024-02-27 at 12:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have found that it’s possible to compromise the Hugging Face Safetensors conversion service to ultimately hijack the models submitted by users and result in supply chain attacks. “It’s possible to send malicious pull requests with attacker-controlled data from

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Five Eyes Agencies Expose APT29’s Evolving Cloud Attack Tactics 2024-02-27 at 12:46 By Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations have released a joint advisory detailing the evolving tactics of the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29. The hacking outfit, also known as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard (formerly Nobelium), and

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HPE boss Neri bags 15% pay hike in 2023 as targets ticked 2024-02-27 at 12:19 By Paul Kunert CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier HPE chief Antonio Neri was awarded $20.06 million in compensation for the company’s last financial year, according to a proxy statement filed with

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Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT… jackpot 2024-02-27 at 11:47 By Jessica Lyons Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers Analysis  Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing

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Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content 2024-02-27 at 10:32 By Katyanna Quach Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections Meta is launching an “EU-specific Elections Operations Center” to tackle AI-generated misinformation and political advertising to prepare for upcoming parliament elections.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec 2024-02-27 at 09:37 By Simon Sharwood First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware’s SD-WAN and Symantec’s Security Service Edge, by today debuting the “VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured

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Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns 2024-02-27 at 08:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Machine learning will make everyone a programmer, so best become an expert in something else Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI has advanced to the point at which it’s no longer necessary to prioritize computer science

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WordPress Plugin Alert – Critical SQLi Vulnerability Threatens 200K+ Websites 2024-02-27 at 08:02 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in a popular WordPress plugin called Ultimate Member that has more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1071, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher Christiaan Swiers

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