Scientists reveal automated adversarial prompt generation too powered Nvidia visualization accelerator Computer scientists from the University of Maryland have developed an efficient way to generate adversarial attack phrases that elicit harmful responses from large language models (LLMs).… This article has…
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Palo Alto investor sues over 28% share tumble
Lawsuit alleges it misled investors with claims new AI products were ‘facilitating greater platformization’ and more Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges investors were deceived about the traction of its platform tactics and…
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans’ personal data
Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans’ sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries…
That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow’s probably going to try again
Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on compromised Ubiquiti Edge OS routers…
Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying
Canadian network box maker floats in denial The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.… This article has…
Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list for flogging snoop-ware to Egypt
Canadian network box maker floats denial The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.… This article has been…
NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons
The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version…
Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT… jackpot
Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry.… This article has been…
Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec
First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware’s SD-WAN and Symantec’s Security Service Edge, by today debuting the “VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec”…
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens
Scammers’ tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by…
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta’s Messenger encryption
State government says it’s thinking of the children A law firm acting on behalf of the Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has asked a state court to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) denying minors access to encrypted communication in…
ALPHV/BlackCat responsible for Change Healthcare cyberattack
US government’s bounty hasn’t borne fruit as whack-a-mole game goes on The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is reportedly responsible for the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack that has disrupted pharmacies across the US since last week.… This article has been indexed from…
Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs
Officials have until March 2 to cough up or stolen data gets leaked LockBit claims it’s back in action just days after an international law enforcement effort seized the ransomware gang’s servers and websites, and retrieved more than 1,000 decryption…
LockBit back from the dead – taunts cops and plans to leak Trump docs
Countdown expires March 2 unless government officials pay the ransom LockBit claims it’s back in action just days after an international law enforcement effort seized the ransomware gang’s servers and websites, and retrieved more than 1,000 decryption keys to assist…
Everything you need to know about NIS2
Get prepared for the EU’s upgraded cybersecurity directive Webinar The original European Union Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive certainly led to an improvement in member states’ cybersecurity defences, but it struggled to do everything required as cyberattacks and threats…
Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite ‘power imbalance’
2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed ‘unlawfully’, ICO says A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor staff at 38 leisure…
Fox News ‘hacker’ turns out to be journalist whose lawyers say was doing his job
Also, another fake iOS app slips into the store, un-cybersafe EV chargers leave UK shelves, and critical vulns in brief A Florida journalist has been arrested and charged with breaking into protected computer systems in a case his lawyers say…
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else
It takes only one bottleneck or single point of failure to ruin your week Systems Approach One refrain you often hear is that security must be built in from the ground floor; that retrofitting security to an existing system is…
LockBit extorted billions of dollars from victims, fresh leaks suggest
Investigating LockBit’s finances has blown previous estimates of the operation’s wealth out of the water Authorities digging into LockBit’s finances believe the group may have generated more than $1 billion in ransom fees over its four-year lifespan.… This article has…
U-Haul tells 67K customers that cyber-crooks drove away with their personal info
Thieves broke into IT system using stolen login U-Haul is alerting tens of thousands of folks that miscreants used stolen credentials to break into one of its systems and access customer records that contained some personal data.… This article has…