NVD As NVD flatlines, cybersecurity professionals call for urgent action Consortium plans “doomed” as rumours swirl over vulnerability database program borkage.
AI Mona Lisa rapping: Microsoft’s new AI spins up convincing talking heads "While acknowledging the possibility of misuse, it's imperative to recognize the substantial positive potential of our technique"
observabiity Grafana cofounder says community looking for flexibility, not demanding AI...yet “Our approach right now is to sort of look at how AI can elevate a junior SRE to a more experienced SRE..."
MOD MOD reopens £300m "Human-Machine Teaming" framework, with a robotics focus "What keeps me up is the cost imposition factor that robotics systems bring"
News Silly PuTTY: SSH client hit with key-stealing bug The PuTTY terminal has been found to contain a vulnerability allowing for the exposure of security keys
News Kapeka Russian malware surfaces in Europe A new variant of the Kremlin-backed Sandworm software known as Kapeka has been found in the wild
VPN PAN-OS vuln mitigation howler: “Disabling telemetry” no help POCs for CVSS 10 bug are out of the bag, tens of thousands are exposed, and telemetry mitigation didn't work.
News NVIDIA datacentre chief to Europe: GPUs are coming, but have you got the power? Schneider urges youngsters to think firmware and electronics skills instead of LLMs and data science
Bank of England “Seriously out of date” software hampering BoE forecasting: Bernanke “Increasingly complex and ad hoc software patches needed to deal with emerging problems and inconsistencies in the forecasting process” says former Fed chairman.
AWS AWS overhauls IAM control plane after vulnerability exposed users Datadog suggests AWS Amplify users conduct "an audit of your roles and potential threat activity" after investigation.
AI Synthetic focus groups and RAG in the contact centre: Bayer, Verizon, WPP on their AI deployments "You can create a consumer, a brand strategist, a brand marketer, client, encoded with actual ground truth data, then critique the content that's been generated by the system with agents playing off against each other."
News Apple shot down in appeal to App Store suit Apple will have to continue its defense of a suit from developers after a court dismissed the company's motion to toss the case
social engineering Catfishers fried for sextortion scam US authorities have charged two people with fraud, cyberstalking, and money laundering charges related to a massive catfishing operation
time series Why time series data could drive an automotive evolution "Because the data streams required to do this never stop, the supporting AI systems must be built on a platform that supplies high-volume, high-cardinality time series data..."
VPN Palo Alto Networks: CVSS 10 bug in Pan-OS is being exploited in the wild Patch? You'll need to wait until Sunday. Turn off telemetry (no, really; it's a mitigation!) and go to the pub. OK, maybe don't.
Cybersecurity Sisense breach: CISO posts guidance amid frantic community action "They have direct access to JDBC connections, to SSH, and to SaaS platforms... This is a worst case scenario"
Cybersecurity Could Chrome be a real security weapon for defenders? A new $6/user proposition has potential... From vanilla data breach risks to insider threats, Chrome Enterprise Premium's capabilities look worth exploring...
News CISA issues warning over 'Midnight Blizzard' Microsoft attack CISA has posted a new directive for US government agencies regarding targeted attacks by the Midnight Blizzard hacking team that also hit Microsoft
News FTC and EU link up for new tech policies Reps from the FTC and EU met up in Washington to discuss their respective policies around AI and tech mergers
News Apple Partner tells The Stack what went wrong (and right) with Cupertino's magic VR The user in the middle of the Apple Vision Pro saga says communication is key
AWS AWS took 6 months to fix Security Token Service bug - IAM policy simulator inadequate, says Stedi "No system is infallible. Sometimes, it is AWS..."
AI “Scant evidence” – Google’s AI chemistry claims were very misleading AI discovered 2.2m new "materials" said DeepMind. Chemistry professors investigated, found hallucinations, repetition, known crystals.