A sophisticated backdoor designed to undermine SSH authentication has been discovered in the widely-used xz Utils compression library. Security researchers averted a potential supply chain disaster when the malicious code was found in beta releases of Fedora Rawhide and Debian’s testing and experimental branches. A recently discovered backdoor in the xz Utils compression tool (versions […]
Monthly Archives: March 2024
The Android banking trojan known as Vultur has resurfaced with a suite of new features and improved anti-analysis and detection evasion techniques, enabling its operators to remotely interact with a mobile device and harvest sensitive data. “Vultur has also started masquerading more of its malicious activity by encrypting its C2 communication, using multiple encrypted payloads […]
LinkedIn is currently testing a new feature that seems to be inspired by TikTok. This video feed provides users with bite-sized career tips, industry insights, and professional development advice, all presented in a format optimized for quick consumption and easy swiping, just like on TikTok. The news comes after several established platforms, including Instagram, YouTube, […]
Microsoft recently released Windows 11 beta build 22635.3420 with lots of new features and improvements. And one of the noteworthy changes in the beta build, which now documents changes in two separate categories, is QR code support in the Windows 11 share sheet. However, it might not work for everyone who installed the latest beta […]
Microsoft Outlook has this privacy issue that sends out attendees’ details without their consent when forwarding. The post Microsoft should fix Outlook privacy issue that sends out attendees’ details without consent when forwarding appeared first on MSPoweruser.
Microsoft is (quietly) letting you redeem your Microsoft Rewards points for gift cards from Xbox, Microsoft or Amazon. The post Here’s how you can redeem Microsoft Rewards points for Xbox, Microsoft, or Amazon gift cards appeared first on MSPoweruser.
Microsoft’s new “Stargate” supercomputer project for AI training, which will reportedly cost $100 billion, could face scrutiny. The post Microsoft’s $100 BILLION “Stargate” supercomputer for AI might not happen. Why? appeared first on MSPoweruser.
The state of AI is the second in this series prepared for the long weekend. In part one, we traced the evolution of Artificial Intelligence. In episode two, we discuss where we are today in the implementation of AI using a model developed by Jackie Fenn, a Gartner analyst who developed the “Hype Curve” – […]
Security researchers have observed Red Hat and Ubuntu systems being attacked by a Linux version of the DinodasRAT (also known as XDealer) that may have been operating since 2022. […]
Generative AI services like Midjourney and OpenAI’s DALL-E can deliver the unimaginable when it comes to stunning artifacts produced from simple text prompts. Sketching complex art imagery may be AI’s specialty, yet some of the simplest tasks are evidently what AI struggles with the most. […]