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Chrome 129 Patches High-Severity Vulnerability in V8 Engine
WEB18 hours ago · Ionut Arghire. Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 129 in the stable channel with patches for nine vulnerabilities, including six reported by external researchers. The most severe of the externally reported flaws is a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine, tracked as CVE-2024-8904, the internet giant notes in an advisory.
Chinese Spies Built Massive Botnet of IoT Devices to Target US, …
WEB13 hours ago · September 18, 2024. Researchers at Lumen Technologies have eyes on a massive, multi-tiered botnet of hijacked IoT devices being commandeered by a Chinese state-sponsored espionage hacking operation. The botnet, tagged with the moniker Raptor Train, is packed with hundreds of thousands of small office/home office (SOHO) and Internet of Things ...
The AI Threat: Deepfake or Deep Fake? Unraveling the True …
WEB1 day ago · September 17, 2024. The big unknown in the security landscape is the adversarial use of AI. It has the potential to upend the current status quo, giving the attackers a new advantage. What we still don’t know is if, when or how this will happen. The real question is whether the AI threat is a deep fake, or …
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WEB2 days ago · US Gov Removing Four-Year-Degree Requirements for Cyber Jobs. The US government will remove "unnecessary degree requirements" in favor of skills-based hiring to help fill 500,000 open cybersecurity jobs. September 6, 2024.
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WEB3 days ago · September 5, 2024. How Do You Know When AI is Powerful Enough to be Dangerous? Regulators Try to Do the Math. An AI model trained on 10 to the 26th floating-point operations per second must now be reported to the U.S. government and could soon trigger even stricter requirements in California. September 5, 2024.
Ransomware in 2024: More Attacks, More Leaks, and Increased ...
WEBAugust 7, 2024. More groups, fewer families, more attacks – no great change over 2023 except, if anything, the ransomware threat is even more severe in 2024. And the growth in leaks and leak sites suggests ransomware is even more successful. Rapid7’s Ransomware Radar Report 2024 (PDF) gleans its intelligence from an analysis of visible leak ...
Cyber Insights 2024: Artificial Intelligence - SecurityWeek
WEBKevin Townsend. February 26, 2024. SecurityWeek’s Cyber Insights is an annual series discussing the major pain points for cybersecurity practitioners. These pain points differ year by year in line with the evolving cyber ecosphere: this year we include discussion on current pressures on the role of CISO, including the new SEC liability rules.
US Sanctions Intellexa Executives as Surveillance Spyware …
WEB2 days ago · Ryan Naraine. September 16, 2024. The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on five individuals and one entity associated with the Intellexa Consortium, a global business caught creating and distributing commercial spyware for targeted and mass surveillance campaigns. The latest round of sanctions are part of a broader US government ...
The Five Stories That Shaped Cybersecurity in 2022
WEBDec 29, 2022 · Some new names that popped up in 2022 include Cobwebs Technologies, Cognate, Black Cube, Bluehawk CI and CyberRoot (formerly BellTroX) as defenders found signs of zero-day exploitation, spear-phishing campaigns and sophisticated exploit chains. The expanding surveillance-for-hire activity prompted …