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Are You Willing to Pay the High Cost of Compromised Credentials? 25/09/2023 at 15:01 By Weak password policies leave organizations vulnerable to attacks. But are the standard password complexity requirements enough to secure them? 83% of compromised passwords would satisfy the password complexity and length requirements of compliance standards. That’s because bad actors already have access to […]

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Watch the Webinar — AI vs. AI: Harnessing AI Defenses Against AI-Powered Risks 25/09/2023 at 15:01 By Generative AI is a double-edged sword, if there ever was one. There is broad agreement that tools like ChatGPT are unleashing waves of productivity across the business, from IT, to customer experience, to engineering. That’s on the one

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Oracle early leader in pointing vectors at business data, say analysts 25/09/2023 at 14:47 By Lindsay Clark Big Red’s ‘big announcement’ strives to bring LLM technique to the business data arena Oracle’s efforts to bring natural language vector search capabilities to the relational data in business systems is being met with approval among analysts, with

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From Watering Hole to Spyware: EvilBamboo Targets Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese 25/09/2023 at 13:47 By Tibetan, Uyghur, and Taiwanese individuals and organizations are the targets of a persistent campaign orchestrated by a threat actor codenamed EvilBamboo to gather sensitive information. “The attacker has created fake Tibetan websites, along with social media profiles, likely used to deploy browser-based

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Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of ‘leccy 25/09/2023 at 13:17 By Simon Sharwood Envisions a ‘comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap’ Microsoft is hiring a “Principal Program Manager Nuclear Technology” to oversee its efforts to power datacenters with nuclear reactors.… This article is an excerpt from The

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UK procurement is too glacial to bring AI into defense, MPs told 25/09/2023 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says The UK’s procurement processes are not fit to bring AI into the nation’s military capabilities, lawmakers heard at a parliamentary hearing.…

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The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not 25/09/2023 at 11:32 By Rupert Goodwins 46Gbps to our sofas. At last, freedom from the nightmare of a mere 9.6 Magicians, management, and marketing depend on misdirection. A deception that doesn’t quite qualify as a lie, it implies something

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New Report Uncovers Three Distinct Clusters of China-Nexus Attacks on Southeast Asian Government 25/09/2023 at 10:47 By An unnamed Southeast Asian government has been targeted by multiple China-nexus threat actors as part of espionage campaigns targeting the region over extended periods of time. “While this activity occurred around the same time and in some instances

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OSIRIS-REx succesfully delivers NASA’s first asteroid sample 25/09/2023 at 09:37 By Laura Dobberstein Molto Bennu NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission delivered on Sunday, when the OSIRIS-REx capsule touched down in the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 25/09/2023 at 08:34 By Simon Sharwood The blind think this is not a visionary decision Google will discontinue the Basic HTML version of its Gmail service in January 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers 25/09/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators Dell has decided that users of its older servers deserve the chance to run data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs) – cards that combine networking

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T-mobile exposes some customer data – but don’t call it a breach 25/09/2023 at 05:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo PLUS: Trojan hidden in PoC; cyber insurance surge; pig butchering’s new cuts; and the week’s critical vulns Infosec in brief  T-Mobile has had another bad week on the infosec front – this time stemming from a system

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How TCP’s congestion control saved the internet 24/09/2023 at 17:23 By Bruce Davie We guess it’s OK it did Systems Approach  With the annual SIGCOMM conference taking place this month, we observed that congestion control still gets an hour in the program, 35 years after the first paper on TCP congestion control was published. So

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Deadglyph: New Advanced Backdoor with Distinctive Malware Tactics 23/09/2023 at 14:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented advanced backdoor dubbed Deadglyph employed by a threat actor known as Stealth Falcon as part of a cyber espionage campaign. “Deadglyph’s architecture is unusual as it consists of cooperating components – one a native x64 binary, the other

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Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 23/09/2023 at 14:19 By Thomas Claburn Can you blame it? Europe’s Digital Markets Act, which goes into effect next year, will require that companies designated as gatekeepers provide users of most popular operating systems with browser choice screens that

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VR headsets to shift 30 million units a year by 2027, vastly behind wearables 23/09/2023 at 11:03 By Simon Sharwood The eyes don’t have it, but you’re all ears Analyst firm IDC has forecast strong growth for virtual reality headwear, but even stronger growth for more modest wearables, with the latter to vastly outsell the

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Apple and Chrome Zero-Days Exploited to Hack Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware 23/09/2023 at 10:02 By The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023.

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Uncle Sam is this keen to keep US CHIPS funds out of China 23/09/2023 at 04:32 By Tobias Mann Meanwhile, GlobalFoundries scores $3B DoD contract to fab chips for military, aerospace The Biden Administration on Friday said it had finalized guardrails to ensure payouts from the $50 billion CHIPS Act don’t flow into the hands

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Colleges snub Turnitin’s AI-writing detector over fears it’ll wrongly accuse students 23/09/2023 at 03:18 By Katyanna Quach By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway Some universities are opting out of using Turnitin-made software designed to detect whether text in essays and assignments submitted by students was written by AI.…

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Unity apologizes, offers furious game devs a tweaked runtime install fee plan 23/09/2023 at 02:34 By Thomas Claburn Is this the engine maker’s final continue? Game engine maker Unity on Friday walked back part of its controversial plan to charge developers a fee based on the number of game downloads installed.… This article is an

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