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Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means – and how much… Continue reading Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern
It’s a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect Sleeper agent-style backdoors in AI large language models pose a straight-out-of-sci-fi security threat.… Continue reading Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door
Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from Google Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar, and shifted Charlie Bell, the company’s executive veep for security, into the new role.…… Continue reading Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar
LLMs automated most phases of the attack UPDATED A digital intruder broke into an AWS cloud environment and in just under 10 minutes went from initial access to administrative privileges, thanks to an AI speed assist.… Continue reading AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say
US agencies told to patch by Friday Attackers are exploiting a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug – less than a week after the vendor disclosed and fixed the 9.8-rated flaw. That’s according to America’s lead cyber-defense agency, which set a Friday… Continue reading Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack
Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who have been targeted by the Nitrogen group. There’s no wa… Continue reading Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can’t unlock your files
Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees who had their details exposed in a significant 2023 data breach will each receive £7,500 ($10,279) as part of a un… Continue reading Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach
As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out If you’re brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering … Continue reading Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
Don’t relax: This is a ‘when, not if’ scenario AI agents and other systems can’t yet conduct cyberattacks fully on their own – but they can help criminals in many stages of the attack chain, according to the International AI Safety report.… Continue reading AI agents can’t yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks – but they are already very helpful to crims
Too slow react-ion time Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native’s Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven’t received the “broad public acknowledgement” th… Continue reading Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void