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Patch time: Critical GitLab vulnerability exposes 2FA-less users to account takeovers 2024-01-15 at 19:47 By Connor Jones The bug with a perfect 10 severity score has been ripe for exploitation since May GitLab admins should apply the latest batch of security patches pronto given the new critical account-bypass vulnerability just disclosed.… This article is an […]

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Reports China’s military is using Baidu’s AI lead to stock plunge 2024-01-15 at 18:32 By Dan Robinson Web giant retorts that researchers simply used its publicly available APIs Web giant Baidu’s stock is down 12 percent after a report linked its AI platform with the Chinese military, amid separate claims the Middle Kingdon’s armed forces

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There were over 4,000 ransomware victims in 2023 2024-01-15 at 18:16 By According to a recent report, there 2343 4,368 ransomware victims in 2023, a 55% surge from 2022. Business services suffered the most attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Reduce risk by preparing for severe weather incidents 2024-01-15 at 17:01 By Businesses face mounting costs from severe weather, with thunderstorms a major culprit. Security leaders must prioritize employee safety and preparedness through emergency kits and robust plans. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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Eben Upton on Sinclair, Acorn, and the Raspberry Pi 2024-01-15 at 16:47 By Richard Speed The future’s bright. The future’s retro Interview  Inspired at least in part by Pi creator Eben Upton’s dalliances with the home computers of the 1980s, the Raspberry Pi casts a long shadow over the retro computing world.… This article is

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3 Ransomware Group Newcomers to Watch in 2024 2024-01-15 at 16:17 By The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 4,368 cases.  Figure 1: Year over year victims per quarter The rollercoaster ride from explosive growth in 2021 to a momentary dip in 2022

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Opera MyFlaw Bug Could Let Hackers Run ANY File on Your Mac or Windows 2024-01-15 at 16:17 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw in the Opera web browser for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS that could be exploited to execute any file on the underlying operating system. The remote code execution vulnerability has

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Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized 2024-01-15 at 15:32 By Tobias Mann If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher Cloud providers have deployed tens of thousands of GPUs and AI accelerators in their race to capitalize on the surge in

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Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup 2024-01-15 at 14:47 By Richard Speed Experiment is limited to the Insider Dev Channel. For now Microsoft is experimenting with having Copilot open automatically upon Windows startup.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster 2024-01-15 at 13:47 By Lindsay Clark Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration Scientists have developed a platform based around a robot guided by an AI-based computer system, which could slash the time for engineering new proteins from months to weeks.… This article

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CDW settles in lawsuit with rival reseller over Cisco sales 2024-01-15 at 13:02 By Dan Robinson Meanwhile pending case from Cisco accuses CDW of selling counterfeit kit CDW, the world’s largest reseller, has reached a settlement with relative minnow in an antitrust case involving Cisco.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD 2024-01-15 at 12:17 By Liam Proven New versions and ports of the Plasma desktop ahoy The KDE dev team has spent many nights working on the first release candidate of the new Qt 6-based release, during which time a tiny, intrepid band of

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The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128 2024-01-15 at 11:33 By Rupert Goodwins If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people Opinion  Following an unlikely series of events involving British Telecom, Prince Philip and a VTX-5000 modem, your teenage protagonist found himself at a drunken dinner party in

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Balada Injector Infects Over 7,100 WordPress Sites Using Plugin Vulnerability 2024-01-15 at 11:02 By Thousands of WordPress sites using a vulnerable version of the Popup Builder plugin have been compromised with a malware called Balada Injector. First documented by Doctor Web in January 2023, the campaign takes place in a series of periodic attack waves, weaponizing security flaws

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High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Bosch Thermostats and Smart Nutrunners 2024-01-15 at 11:02 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Bosch BCC100 thermostats and Rexroth NXA015S-36V-B smart nutrunners that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered the flaw in Bosch BCC100 thermostats last August, said

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Infosys co-founder doubles down on call for 70-hour work weeks 2024-01-15 at 10:17 By Laura Dobberstein It’s not like Gandhi ever saw his kids, says Narayana Murthy Indian billionaire and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has doubled down on his comments that India’s youth should voluntarily work 70-hour weeks.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain 2024-01-15 at 08:36 By Simon Sharwood Net-taming firm lets staff go if they’re bad at ‘measurable performance targets’ or aren’t ‘right for the team’, which seems a tad contradictory Cloudflare has defended its HR practices after a former employee posted a nine-minute video of

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DDoS Attacks on the Environmental Services Industry Surge by 61,839% in 2023 2024-01-15 at 08:36 By The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare said

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Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms 2024-01-15 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run. Linus Torvalds has indefinitely postponed the merge window for version 6.8 of the Linux kernel after a winter storm knocked out power and

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The intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence 2024-01-15 at 07:16 By Artificial intelligence (AI) is a valuable cybersecurity asset, but it’s not a silver bullet. To best leverage AI, we must consider the security teams of the future. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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