The China-backed threat actor known as Earth Baku has diversified its targeting footprint beyond the Indo-Pacific region to include Europe, the Middle East, and Africa starting in late 2022. Newly targeted countries as part of the activity include Italy, Germany, the U.A.E., and Qatar, with suspected attacks also detected in Georgia and Romania. Governments, media […]
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Cyber Intruders Hiding in Plain Sight – APTs Are Everywhere The Disturbing Threat Lurking in Your Network Imagine a spy sneaking into your home, hiding in a closet, and silently watching your every move. Creepy, right? That’s exactly what Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are doing, but in your computer network. These cyber spies get in […]
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The Next Big Cybersecurity Threat? Why Young Western Hackers Are Joining Forces with Russian Cybercriminals—And What It Means for You A new and deadly alliance is forming in the cyber underworld, and it’s poised to spell disaster for businesses worldwide. Young hackers from the U.S., U.K., and Canada have teamed up with Russia’s most notorious […]
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Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 90 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including a whopping six zero-day flaws that are already being actively exploited by attackers. Image: Shutterstock. This month’s bundle of update joy from Redmond includes patches for security holes in Office, .NET, Visual Studio, Azure, Co-Pilot, Microsoft Dynamics, Teams, […]
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Cyber Attack Shakes Trump-Musk Interview What DDoS Attacks Are, How They Work, and How to Defend Against Them When a cyber onslaught crippled the Trump-Musk interview on X, it exposed the terrifying reality that no business is safe from a DDoS attack. What Happened During the Interview? The much-anticipated interview between Elon Musk and Donald […]
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In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there’s no sound on a video of an AI dentist. Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named “L Ron”, a […]
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A team of researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany has disclosed an architectural bug impacting Chinese chip company T-Head’s XuanTie C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs that could allow attackers to gain unrestricted access to susceptible devices. The vulnerability has been codenamed GhostWrite. It has been described as a direct CPU […]
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two security flaws in Microsoft’s Azure Health Bot Service that, if exploited, could permit a malicious actor to achieve lateral movement within customer environments and access sensitive patient data. The critical issues, now patched by Microsoft, could have allowed access to cross-tenant resources within the service, Tenable said in a new […]
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Really interesting article on the ancient-manuscript scholars who are applying their techniques to the Voynich Manuscript. No one has been able to understand the writing yet, but there are some new understandings: Davis presented her findings at the medieval-studies conference and published them in 2020 in the journal Manuscript Studies. She had hardly solved the […]
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