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New PHP Vulnerability Exposes Windows Servers to Remote Code Execution
/in General NewsDetails have emerged about a new critical security flaw impacting PHP that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, has been described as a CGI argument injection vulnerability affecting all versions of PHP installed on the Windows operating system.
According to DEVCORE security researcher, the shortcoming makes
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Microsoft Revamps Controversial AI-Powered Recall Feature Amid Privacy Concerns
/in General NewsMicrosoft on Friday said it will disable its much-criticized artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature by default and make it an opt-in.
Recall, currently in preview and coming exclusively to Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, functions as an “explorable visual timeline” by capturing screenshots of what appears on users’ screens every five seconds, which are subsequently analyzed and
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Harvard, MIT, and Wharton research reveals pitfalls of relying on junior staff for AI training
/in General NewsNew study by Harvard, MIT, Wharton, and BCG researchers finds that relying on junior employees to train seniors on generative AI risks is ineffective, highlighting the need for top-down governance and expertise at all levels.Read More
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New Phishing Campaign Uses Stealthy JPGs to Drop Agent Tesla
/in General NewsSpanish speakers beware! A new campaign using the Agent Tesla RAT targets Spanish-speaking individuals. Learn how to protect…
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GitHub Repos Targeted in Cyber-Extortion Attacks
/in General NewsSince at least February, a threat actor has been attempting to extort victims by stealing or wiping data in their GitHub repositories.
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OpenAI, Anthropic Research Reveals More About How LLMs Affect Security and Bias
/in General NewsAnthropic opened a window into the ‘black box’ where ‘features’ steer a large language model’s output. OpenAI dug into the same concept two weeks later with a deep dive into sparse autoencoders.
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CISO Corner: Red Sox CloudSec; Deepfake Biz Risk; Ticketmaster Takeaways
/in General NewsOur collection of the most relevant reporting and industry perspectives for those guiding cybersecurity strategies and focused on SecOps. Also included: Proactive playbooks, a US-Kenya partnership, and the trouble with shadow engineering.
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How AI-driven identity attacks are defining the new threatscape
/in General NewsAttackers are turning to deepfakes and other identity attacks to achieve their goals, quickly changing the enterprise threatscape.Read More
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Microsoft temporarily disables Recall on Copilot+ PCs amid security and privacy concerns
/in General NewsMicrosoft temporarily disables its AI-powered Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs following privacy and security concerns raised by cybersecurity experts and the public.Read More
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Snowflake’s customer breaches make 2024 the year of the identity siege
/in General NewsAccess happened because the demo account was not behind Okta or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), unlike Snowflake’s corporate and production systems.Read More
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