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European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal 2024-02-15 at 09:32 By Thomas Claburn Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights – a decision […]

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WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age 2024-02-15 at 08:32 By Richard Speed The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover NASA’s Perseverance is having trouble with one of its instruments – which could mean the rover will no longer be able to zap rocks

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WTF is ‘deployment phasing’? One reason Cisco revenue just went backwards, is what 2024-02-15 at 08:01 By Simon Sharwood Splunk deal may close early, but AI is a way off turning into a money fountain. Meanwhile, Cisco waits for you to finish projects Cisco has delivered mixed news to investors after its customers yet again

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Critical Exchange Server Flaw (CVE-2024-21410) Under Active Exploitation 2024-02-15 at 07:32 By Microsoft on Wednesday acknowledged that a newly disclosed critical security flaw in Exchange Server has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after it released fixes for the vulnerability as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Tracked as CVE-2024-21410 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue has

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North Korea now running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service 2024-02-15 at 06:46 By Laura Dobberstein $5k a month for the site. $3k for tech support. Infection with malware and funding a despot? Priceless North Korea’s latest money-making venture is the production and sale of gambling websites that come pre-infected with malware, according to South Korea’s National

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In pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Meta adds Broadcom boss Hock Tan to its board 2024-02-15 at 05:44 By Simon Sharwood Zuck needs silicon smarts – and the energy experience of a former Enron exec Social networking company Meta has appointed Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to its board and added energy entrepreneur John Arnold too.…

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‘Scandal-plagued’ data broker tracked visits to ‘600 Planned Parenthood locations’ 2024-02-15 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Anti-abortion group said to have used that monitoring to push ad campaign A pro-life group was able to specifically target visitors to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood facilities in 48 states in America with anti-abortion ads using location data from

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Slack adds AI to help users cope with chat overload 2024-02-15 at 03:46 By Katyanna Quach Summarizes threads you just can’t keep up with and beefs up search After nearly a year of testing, Salesforce-owned Slack has launched some generative AI features that may help enterprise users search, summarize, and ask questions about information in

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Quilter’s AI design service nabs $10M to make circuit board design easier 2024-02-15 at 02:47 By Tobias Mann Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours On Tuesday AI startup Quilter picked up $10 million in series-A funding to use a combination of machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC)

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OpenAI shuts down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea accounts caught doing naughty things 2024-02-15 at 02:16 By Katyanna Quach You don’t need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs OpenAI has shut down five accounts it asserts were used by government agents to generate phishing emails and malicious software scripts as well

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Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown 2024-02-15 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far The FTC’s antitrust case against Amazon is headed to trial, though not anytime soon, with a federal judge scheduling

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Report reveals the 5 fraud threats to watch out for in 2024 2024-02-15 at 00:16 By The report discusses the five fraud threats that are predicted to emerge in 2024.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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China’s Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of ‘large’ US city 2024-02-14 at 23:17 By Jessica Lyons Jeez, not now, Xi. Can’t you see we’ve got an election and Ukraine and Gaza and cost of living and layoffs and … The Chinese government’s Volt Typhoon spy team has apparently already compromised a large US

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AI won’t take our jobs and it might even save the middle class 2024-02-14 at 22:17 By Thomas Claburn MIT economist argues AI can moderate the inequalities of the Information Age The future described in OpenAI’s mission statement, in which autonomous systems “outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” sounds like a hellscape to MIT

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Phishing attacks increased 106% year over year 2024-02-14 at 22:16 By According to a recent threat report, detections of phishing attempts increased by 106% year-over-year, while malware detections were up 40%. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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The FBI warns of the prevalence of romance scams this Valentine’s Day 2024-02-14 at 22:16 By This Valentine’s Day, the FBI warns online users about romance scams and the associated losses.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it! 2024-02-14 at 21:47 By Richard Speed New Start Menu is a ‘game changer’ claims relentlessly cheerful vid Microsoft is again releasing a video to entice more Windows 10 users to make the leap to the brave new world

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US Air Force’s new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks 2024-02-14 at 20:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Officer pay, limited command duties and writing ‘code for your country’ Skilled IT professionals considering a career change have a new option, as the US Air Force is reintroducing warrant officer ranks exclusively “within the

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Prudential Financial finds cybercrims lurking inside its IT systems 2024-02-14 at 19:31 By Paul Kunert Some company admin and customers data exposed, but bad guys were there for ‘only’ a day Prudential Financial, the second largest life insurance company in the US and eight largest worldwide, is dealing with a digital break-in that exposed some

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Kent Goodrow appointed Chief Information Security Officer at Systems Engineering 2024-02-14 at 19:02 By Kent Goodrow has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer at Systems Engineering. Goodrow is pursuing a Master’s in Cybersecurity Management. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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