Month: June 2024
A failure to consider cybersecurity when it comes to engaging in an M&A deal, as Winzer put it, is like driving blind without any mirrors. “You can be very easily attacked and become prey to cyber attackers, and if that were to happen what’s at stake is business operations, being able to run the company…
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Information security analyst/administrator Information assurance security officer Information security manager/specialist Information systems security engineer/manager Information security professionals/officers Information security/IT auditors Risk/threat/vulnerability analyst System administrators Network administrators and engineers This is, of course, over and above jobs that actually have “ethical hacker” or “penetration testing” or the like in their title, which are more glamorous but…
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Arm has issued a security bulletin warning of a memory-related vulnerability in Bifrost and Valhall GPU kernel drivers that is being exploited in the wild. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2024-4610 and is a use-after-free vulnerability (UAF) that impacts all versions of Bifrost and Valhall drivers from r34p0 through r40p0. UAF flaws occur when a program…
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Threat actors impersonate GitHub’s security and recruitment teams in phishing attacks to hijack repositories using malicious OAuth apps in an ongoing extortion campaign wiping compromised repos. Since at least February, dozens of developers targeted in this campaign have received similar fake job offers or security alert emails from “notifications@github.com” after being tagged in spam comments…
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Image: Apple Apple unveiled its new ‘Apple Intelligence’ feature today at its 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference, finally unveiling its generative AI strategy that will power new personalized experiences on Apple devices. “Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models right at the core of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac,” explained Apple during the…
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Researchers found half a dozen vulnerabilities of varying severity impacting Netgear WNR614 N300, a budget-friendly router that proved popular among home users and small businesses. The device reached end-of-life (EoL) and is no longer supported by Netgear but it’s still present in many environments due to its reliability, ease of use, and performance. Researchers at RedFox…
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Unsanitized RPC function calls The vulnerability is located in PyTorch’s distributed Remote Procedure Call (RPC) component, torch.distributed.rpc. The component facilitates inter-process communication between the various nodes involved in distributed training scenarios, in which a task is distributed between multiple deployments that function as workers and is controlled from a master node. When using RPC, workers…
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In this article, we will look at the fully undetectable (FUD) cryptography and encryption market, which is frequently used by cybercriminals to enable malware to evade common endpoint and antivirus solutions. A cybercriminal will almost certainly face the challenge of concealing their malicious software to avoid detection by antivirus and security systems at some point…
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‘At the end of the day, what we ultimately want to do is quite simple: We just want to help make AI work for you. And we want to make AI work for us. And we want to help you get there in a responsible, safe way, and one that really provides you the value…
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Most Snowflake customers can heave a sigh of relief: The cloud data platform’s systems do not appear to have been compromised, cybersecurity researchers at Mandiant reported Monday. But they may have to make changes to how they authenticate to Snowflake all the same, as company is considering making multifactor authentication mandatory to access its systems.…
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