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NVIDIA GTC Keynote: Blackwell Architecture Will Accelerate AI Products in Late 2024
2024-03-19 01:40

NVIDIA's newest GPU platform is the Blackwell, which companies including AWS, Microsoft and Google plan to adopt for generative AI and other modern computing tasks, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced during the keynote at the NVIDIA GTC conference on March 18 in San Jose, California. Along with the Blackwell GPUs, the company announced the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which links two NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPUs to the NVIDIA Grace CPU - providing a new, combined platform for LLM inference.

Investment advisers pay $400K to settle ‘AI washing’ charges
2024-03-18 21:38

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that two investment advisers, Delphia and Global Predictions, have settled charges of making misleading statements regarding the use of artificial intelligence technology in their products. Both companies have agreed to pay $400,000 in civil penalties for their "Al washing" activities: Delphia will pay a civil penalty of $225,000, while Global Predictions will pay $175,000.

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Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
2024-03-18 21:29

At least 900 websites built with Google's Firebase, a cloud database, have been misconfigured, leaving credentials, personal info, and other sensitive data inadvertently exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers. Among these websites, it's estimated that at least 125 million user records were found to be publicly accessible, including billing information and plaintext passwords.

Chinese Earth Krahang hackers breach 70 orgs in 23 countries
2024-03-18 20:49

A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat group known as 'Earth Krahang' has breached 70 organizations and targeted at least 116 across 45 countries. Specifically, the hackers have compromised 48 government organizations, 10 of which are Foreign Affairs ministries, and targeted another 49 government agencies.

Fujitsu reveals malware installed on internal systems, risk of customer data spill
2024-03-18 20:30

Fujitsu has confirmed that miscreants have compromised some of its internal computers, deployed malware, and may have stolen some customer information. "In a March 15 notice posted on its website, and translated from Japanese, the global tech giant said it had"confirmed the presence of malware on several of our company's work computers, and after conducting an internal investigation "Discovered that files containing personal information and customer information could be illegally taken out."

Fujitsu finds malware on company systems, investigates possible data breach
2024-03-18 20:27

Fujitsu Limited, the largest Japanese IT services provider, has announced that several of the company's computers have been compromised with malware, leading to a possible data breach. The affected computers have been disconnected and the company has strengthened the monitoring of other business computers, Fujitsu said.

Microsoft announces deprecation of 1024-bit RSA keys in Windows
2024-03-18 19:51

Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security to provide increased security. 1024-bit RSA keys have approximately 80 bits of strength, while the 2048-bit key has approximately 112 bits, making the latter four billion times longer to factor.

More than 133,000 Fortinet appliances still vulnerable to month-old critical bug
2024-03-18 19:00

The volume of Fortinet boxes exposed to the public internet and vulnerable to a month-old critical security flaw in FortiOS is still extremely high, despite a gradual increase in patching. According to security nonprofit Shadowserver's latest data, the number of Fortinet appliances vulnerable to CVE-2024-21762 stands at more than 133,000 - down only slightly from more than 150,000 ten days prior.

New DEEP#GOSU Malware Campaign Targets Windows Users with Advanced Tactics
2024-03-18 17:56

A new elaborate attack campaign has been observed employing PowerShell and VBScript malware to infect Windows systems and harvest sensitive information. Cybersecurity company Securonix, which...

Cyber baddies leak 70M+ files online, claim they're from AT&T
2024-03-18 16:45

More than 70 million records, allegedly stolen from AT&T in 2021, were dumped on a cybercrime forum at the weekend. The stolen files include names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, addresses, emails, phone numbers and other personal information, according to Dark Web Informer, who first spotted the massive data dump by the criminals.