General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Side channel gives unauthenticated remote attackers access they should never have.
Publish Date: 1/28/2025
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"We loved VMware, and then when Broadcom bought ‘em, we hated ‘em.”
Publish Date: 1/27/2025
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J-Magic backdoor infected organizations in a wide array of industries.
Publish Date: 1/23/2025
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Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.
Publish Date: 1/23/2025
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Power grid in Central Europe uses unencrypted radio signals to add and shed loads.
Publish Date: 1/23/2025
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Bigger, badder DDoSes are flooding the Internet. Dismal IoT security is largely to blame.
Publish Date: 1/22/2025
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DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1 in several benchmarks.
Publish Date: 1/21/2025
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"Classic" plans without AI or price increases are only for current subscribers.
Publish Date: 1/16/2025
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File that neutered Secure Boot passed Microsoft's internal review process.
Publish Date: 1/16/2025
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While close US allies get unrestricted AI chip access, the rest of the world has numerical limits.
Publish Date: 1/13/2025
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Butler's "Darwin among the machines" warned of a future mechanical race that could subjugate humanity.
Publish Date: 1/11/2025
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Service used undocumented APIs and other tricks to bypass safety guardrails.
Publish Date: 1/10/2025
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As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job growth by 2030.
Publish Date: 1/10/2025
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In-the-wild attacks tamper with built-in security tool providing infection warnings.
Publish Date: 1/9/2025
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And a few months later, the Internet's first password.
Publish Date: 1/9/2025
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How do you stash 18,000 keywords into a description? Turns out it's easy.
Publish Date: 1/8/2025
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Project DIGITS can run a local chatbot or other AI models up to 200B parameters in size.
Publish Date: 1/7/2025
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A firmware-dwelling bootkit in the iSeq 100 could be a key win for threat actors.
Publish Date: 1/7/2025
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The race to replace human workers continues in Big Tech, but not everyone is convinced it will happen so soon.
Publish Date: 1/6/2025
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Two separate campaigns have been stealing credentials and browsing history for months.
Publish Date: 1/3/2025
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