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  • May 23, 2024

Personal AI Assistants and Privacy

MIThttps://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/25/1032111/conscious-ai-can-machines-think/ “Machines with minds are mainstays of science fiction—the idea of a robot thatsomehow replicates consciousness through its hardware or software has been around so long it feels familiar. Such machines don’t exist, of course, and maybe never will. Indeed, the concept of a machine with a subjective experience of the world and a first-person […]

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  • May 23, 2024

Ivanti Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws in Endpoint Manager

Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. Six of the 10 vulnerabilities – from CVE-2024-29822 through CVE-2024-29827 (CVSS scores: 9.6) – relate to SQL injection flaws that allow an unauthenticated attacker within the same […]

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  • May 23, 2024

The End of an Era: Microsoft Phases Out VBScript for JavaScript and PowerShell

Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. “Technology has advanced over the years, giving rise to more powerful and versatile scripting languages such as JavaScript and PowerShell,” Microsoft Program Manager Naveen Shankar said. […]

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  • May 22, 2024

Smashing Security podcast #373: iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice

iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there’s a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Anna Brading of Malwarebytes. Plus! […]

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  • May 22, 2024

Researchers Warn of Chinese-Aligned Hackers Targeting South China Sea Countries

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented threat group called Unfading Sea Haze that’s believed to have been active since 2018. The intrusion singled out high-level organizations in South China Sea countries, particularly military and government targets, Bitdefender said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “The investigation revealed a troubling trend […]

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  • May 22, 2024

23-year-old alleged founder of dark web Incognito Market arrested after FBI tracks cryptocurrency payments

Graham CLULEY May 22, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial The United States Department of Justice has dealt a blow to dark web drug traffickers by arresting a man alleged to operate the dark web drugs marketplace Incognito Market. According to a DOJ press release, the alleged operator […]

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  • May 22, 2024

Rockwell Advises Disconnecting Internet-Facing ICS Devices Amid Cyber Threats

Rockwell Automation is urging its customers to disconnect all industrial control systems (ICSs) not meant to be connected to the public-facing internet to mitigate unauthorized or malicious cyber activity. The company said it’s issuing the advisory due to “heightened geopolitical tensions and adversarial cyber activity globally.” To that end, customers are required to take immediate […]

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  • May 22, 2024

Unredacting Pixelated Text

Experiments in unredacting text that has been pixelated.  

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  • May 22, 2024

The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management Checklist, 2025 Edition

Since the first edition of The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Checklist was released three years ago, the corporate SaaS sprawl has been growing at a double-digit pace. In large enterprises, the number of SaaS applications in use today is in the hundreds, spread across departmental stacks, complicating the job of security teams to […]

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