To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely
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AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) has found that frontier models are quickly becoming more efficient when asked to do […]
Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads
Chinese web giant Tencent struggles to earn a return on investment from GPUs – unless it uses them to power […]
Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco
Cisco will make around five percent of staff redundant and has generously offered them free Cisco training for a year […]
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
The vulnpocalypse has begun. Palo Alto Networks usually finds five vulnerabiilties a month, but on Wednesday said it scanned its […]
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn’t work, but you weren’t using it anyway, so what’s the problem?
Most users put up with AWS the way you put up with the DMV. I say this with love, but […]
Google’s AI-enabled mouse pointer understands ‘this’ and ‘that’
Google doesn’t design mouse traps, so it’s trying to design a better mouse. Google DeepMind announced a research effort to […]
Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to datacenter uptime. According to a recent report from the Uptime […]
Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks
Anthropic is pushing into the small business space with a set of new plug-and-play tools designed for those without a […]
Bug hunter tracks down three massive MCP flaws and one vendor won’t fix theirs
Security vulnerabilities in MCP servers for three popular database projects could let attackers execute unintended SQL statements on Apache Doris, […]