Software Development

 The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight.  [[{“value”:” Thousands of machines running Linux have been infected by a malware strain that’s notable for its stealth, the number of misconfigurations it can exploit, and the breadth of malicious activities it can perform, researchers reported Thursday. The malware has been circulating since …

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 Microsoft brings two new opt-in trial features to some users of its Copilot AI-assistant.  [[{“value”:” On Monday, Microsoft unveiled updates to its consumer AI assistant Copilot, introducing two new experimental features for a limited group of $20/month Copilot Pro subscribers: Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision. Labs integrates OpenAI’s latest o1 “reasoning” model, and Vision allows …

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 When successful, attacks install a backdoor. Getting it to work reliably is another matter.  [[{“value”:” Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in mail servers sold by Zimbra in an attempt to remotely execute malicious commands that install a backdoor, researchers warn. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-45519, resides in the Zimbra email and collaboration server …

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 OpenAI has nearly doubled what investors think it’s worth—but there’s a catch.  [[{“value”:” OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has now raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $157 billion, nearly doubling its previous valuation of $86 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The funding round …

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 Email accounts inside 5 US companies unlawfully breached through password resets.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors have charged a man for an alleged “hack-to-trade” scheme that earned him millions of dollars by breaking into the Office365 accounts of executives at publicly traded companies and obtaining quarterly financial reports before they were released publicly. …

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 Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom quoted AT&T a 1,050 percent price hike for VMware offerings, AT&T has claimed in legal documents. AT&T sued Broadcom on August 29, accusing Broadcom of unlawfully denying it the second of three one-year renewals for support services that AT&T …

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 With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Public records systems that courts and governments rely on to manage voter registrations and legal filings have been riddled with vulnerabilities that made it possible for attackers to falsify registration databases and add, delete, or modify …

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 News about Gemini updates, Llama 3.2, and Google’s new AI-powered chip designer.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge / There’s been a lot of AI news this week, and covering it sometimes feels like running through a hall full of danging CRTs, just like this Getty Images illustration. (credit: Grandfailure via Getty Images) It’s been a wildly busy week …

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 Company failed to follow one of the most sacrosanct rules for password storage.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that …

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 OpenAI doesn’t want its chatbot to sing, but sometimes the ability slips through.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge / A screen capture of AJ Smith doing his Eleanor Rigby duet with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode through the ChatGPT app. (credit: AJ Smith / Getty Images) OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) of its ChatGPT AI assistant rolled out …

Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into duet of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” Read More »