Want to know what the most in demand skill is on the underground job boards? English language social engineering. The ads on the boards doubled between last year and this year. One security CEO calls this Impersonation as a service or IaaS, not to be confused with the other IaaS, Infrastructure as a service. You […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why Are the Solar Panels on Your Roof a National Security Problem? It would take some work, but if a hacker got access to the same network as your solar panels (like as a result of, say, an unchanged default WiFi password), then due to vulnerabilities in EG4’s solar inverters, a hacker could intercept data, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stablecoin is a type of Bitcoin-like digital currency that doesn’t physically exist. Unlike a dollar bill, which is backed by “the full faith and credit of the United States”, digital currencies are backed by, well, I am not sure what. Mostly hot air. In the case of Wyoming, their stablecoin is called FRONTIER and is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably not, but it could have some impact. The key parameters for what an LLM can do is the number of “parameters” it can run. Up until now, anything larger than 32 billion parameters and most computers that you might buy in the store will come to a screeching halt. But now, someone on Reddit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI has entered the boardroom, front and center. For directors, it is not an IT issue. It is a governance, ethics and judgement issue. Board members can ignore it for a little while, but they do so at their own risk. And the whole issue around AI is about managing risk. Managing risk in an environment […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Qubic Claims to Control Monero Mining Any blockchain is supposed to be unchangeable. That is unless you control the hashing function. The premise behind all blockchains is that there are a lot of independent hash systems which prevents collusion to change the data. If you can change the block data then it is like a […]
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