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BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly over its safety guardrails
Talk about gone in 60 seconds Computer scientists at the University of Maryland have developed an efficient way to craft prompts that elicit harmful responses from large language models (LLMs).…
Palo Alto investor sues over 28% share tumble
Lawsuit alleges it misled investors with claims new AI products were 'facilitating greater platformization' and more Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges investors were deceived about the traction of its platform tactics and hurt by an unexpectedly low billings forecast that…
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans’ personal data
Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans' sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries including China and Russia.…
That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow’s probably going to try again
Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on compromised Ubiquiti Edge OS routers – in the form of a warning that…
Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying
Canadian network box maker floats in denial The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.…
NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons
The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).…
Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT… jackpot
Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry.…
Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec
First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware's SD-WAN and Symantec's Security Service Edge, by today debuting the "VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.…
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens
Scammers' tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by scammers.…