Category: AI in news
Here’s the global cloud market share results and six world leaders for Q2 2024, which include AWS, Alibaba, Google Cloud, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce, according to new market data. Global cloud market share for the three cloud giants—Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS—shifted during the second quarter of 2024 as enterprise cloud spending reached a new…
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. “Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a cross-cache attack reliably,” a group of academics…
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Kernel-mode drivers are critical yet risky components of the Windows operating system. Learn about their functionality, the dangers they pose, and how Tenable’s new plugins can help identify and mitigate vulnerabilities using community-driven resources like LOLDrivers. Windows is an operating system that, over its 40-plus years of history, has developed more than a few arcane…
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GoGra leverages the Microsoft Graph API in order to access the Outlook mail service using OAuth access tokens for a username called FNU LNU. The backdoor accesses the Outlook mailbox and reads instructions from email messages with the word “Input” in the subject line. However, the contents of the messages are encrypted with AES-256 and…
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This post was written by ARC Labs Contributor, John Dwyer, Director of Security Research at Binary Defense In the first part of this series, we discussed how Binary Defense has innovated within the deception market by offering Managed Deception which makes deception technology accessible to every organization. In this installment, we explore how Binary Defense…
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There’s a lot of confusion and unknowns regarding AI application risks, and a lot of vendors are trying to offer solutions to problems that aren’t clearly defined. In this blog we explain why a smart approach is to start by focusing on basic, foundational cyber hygiene, adopt well-established best practices and enforce common-sense usage policies.…
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HPE’s blockbuster acquisition of Juniper Networks has cleared two major hurdles in Europe that paves the way for the merger to be finalized. Hewlett Packard Enterprises’s blockbuster $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is nearing the finish line after passing key approvals in Europe. In June, the U.K. antitrust watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)…
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While the Black Hat USA 2024 conference, held in Las Vegas, has served as a launchpad for several cybersecurity tools and technologies, this year’s launches were all about leveraging the power of generative AI to manage risks, detect fight cybercriminals, and safeguard your business. The event showcased a variety of innovations from industry leaders and emerging…
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“Certain events must be tapped into at the kernel level and responded to accordingly, but the whole signature matching process doesn’t need to happen there,” Florian Roth, head of research at Nextron Systems, wrote in an X post. “It could reside in another component, limiting the kernel module to essential tasks only.” Ideally, such privileged…
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BBC News cybersecurity journalist Joe Tidy has found himself in the unusual position of being targeted by a scammer calling herself “Jessica”, he revealed in a report this week. According to Tidy, someone posing as an attractive, 36-year-old woman claiming to be based in Chicago contacted him via Instagram. For weeks, “Jessica” would contact Tidy…
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