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Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough 2024-02-01 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid Smart clothing is a go-to item on the hype-cycle bandwagon, which never seems to arrive. Yet for anyone wanting to play Doom on their […]

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How not to write about network security – and yes, I’m speaking from experience 2024-02-01 at 10:32 By Bruce Davie At least it’s no longer an afterthought Systems Approach  In 1996, Larry Peterson and I published the first edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach in the hope that it would become a widely adopted

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Warning: New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities 2024-02-01 at 10:16 By Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK,

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Brit watchdog thinks Google’s tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn’t cricket 2024-02-01 at 09:47 By Thomas Claburn Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority Google so far has lived up to its commitments to make room in its Privacy Sandbox for rivals, though the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority says a

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Qualcomm signals its PC push will coincide with back to school sales and be tied to a Windows launch 2024-02-01 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars Qualcomm’s attempt to grab a slab of the PC CPU market will commence in earnest in

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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Vulnerability in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 2024-02-01 at 07:32 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-48618 (CVSS score: 7.8),

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Singtel does the ‘we’re building datacenters to host Nvidia clusters’ thing 2024-02-01 at 07:16 By Laura Dobberstein Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI Telcoms giant Singtel announced Thursday a collaboration with Nvidia to deliver purpose-built AI infrastructure across Southeast Asia.… This article is

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The value-add of security metrics 2024-02-01 at 07:16 By Four enterprise security functions have embraced data to improve operational efficiency, enterprise-wide communication, and security buy-in. 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 pros and cons for AI in financial sector cybersecurity 2024-02-01 at 07:16 By The financial sector has been deeply impacted by fraud, and security professionals are finding ways to mitigate it via artificial intelligence (AI). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Indian PM’s advisors suggest AI might lead to ‘mass schizophrenia’ 2024-02-01 at 05:36 By Laura Dobberstein Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity India’s Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EACPM) has penned a document warning that current global AI

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Congress told how Chinese attackers plan to incite ‘societal chaos’ in the US 2024-02-01 at 03:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle American public is way ahead of them Chinese attackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” on American infrastructure and “cause societal chaos” in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on

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Cloud Software Group effectively snuffs open source XenCenter via a README file 2024-02-01 at 02:46 By Simon Sharwood Users should examine other options Disgruntled VMware users contemplating the open source cut of XenCenter as an alternative need to think again. In December the Cloud Software Group quietly canned the offering with an update to the

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Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes 2024-02-01 at 00:02 By Katyanna Quach You could say this was tailored for Swift US Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would allow victims portrayed in non-consensual AI-generated pornographic deepfakes to sue the creators for damages. … This article is an

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‘I’m sorry for everything…’ Facebook’s Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing 2024-01-31 at 23:46 By Thomas Claburn Meta boss told in social media safety probe: ‘Your product is killing people’ Executives from the top social media companies faced contentious, sometimes contemptuous, questioning from the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing titled:

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RunC Flaws Enable Container Escapes, Granting Attackers Host Access 2024-01-31 at 22:46 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the runC command line tool that could be exploited by threat actors to escape the bounds of the container and stage follow-on attacks. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-21626, CVE-2024-23651, CVE-2024-23652, and CVE-2024-23653, have been collectively

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79% of organizations faced a ransomware attack in H2 2023 2024-01-31 at 22:31 By According to a recent report, 79% of respondents said their company had been the ‘victim of a ransomware attack’ between June and December 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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DeepMind’s robot chef cooks up ‘novel’ materials with a side of controversy 2024-01-31 at 22:03 By Katyanna Quach Chemists dispute research claiming millions of recipes for inorganic crystalline compounds Google DeepMind and UC Berkeley’s research into a robot cooking up new materials predicted by AI algorithms is being called into question by a group of

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FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon’s botnet 2024-01-31 at 21:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters China’s Volt Typhoon attackers used “hundreds” of outdated Cisco and NetGear routers infected with malware in an attempt to break into US critical infrastructure facilities,

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Ransomware payment rates drop to new low – only 29% of victims are forking over cash 2024-01-31 at 21:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s almost like years of false assurances have made people realize payments are pointless Trusting a ransomware crew to honor a deal isn’t the greatest idea, and the world seems to be waking

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Japanese space lasers plan to show aims to clean up orbital junk 2024-01-31 at 21:02 By Dan Robinson Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve? A Japanese company wants to remove debris from Earth orbit by using a satellite-mounted laser to decelerate an object such as a defunct

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