The title comes from a folk song written by Pete Seeger in the 1950s, but apparently, software developers are not into folk music. In this case, security researchers are warning that developers are leaving security credentials in public repositories. They found these creds in repositories run by IBM, Digital Ocean, AWS, Gitlab, and others. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may remember a few months ago that Elon said it was very important to put a pause on AI until we could figure out how to do that safely. I guess he has figured that out. Say hello to GROK. Grok, according to the dictionary, means “understand (something) intuitively or by empathy”. While other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2008 a group of MIT students were going to present a paper at the hacking convention Defcon on vulnerabilities in the Boston Transit (called the MBTA) fare card. The MBTA sued Defcon and the presentation was cancelled. But not before the slides for the presentation were published online. While this is an alternative to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week it was revealed that VoIP communications company 3CX was compromised and was distributing a malicious version of their desktop software to hundreds of thousands of paying customers. This is not an attack where users go to find sketchy websites and download “free” software that should be paid for. Rather, this is licensed software […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]