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The Register
Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health Young Brits are souring on the internet, with increasing numbers seeing it as damaging to society and their mental health, according to latest research published by Ofcom.…
Bleeping Computer
WatchGuard has warned customers to patch a critical, actively exploited remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its Firebox firewalls. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions. [...]
The Register
Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence AI is moving from experimentation to everyday use inside the enterprise. That shift brings new opportunities, but it also changes the security equation. Attacks are becoming faster and more convincing, while organizations are simultaneously trying to protect new assets like models, prompts, agent workflows, and the sensitive data those systems can access.… Sponsored Post
The Hacker News
Certain motherboard models from vendors like ASRock, ASUSTeK Computer, GIGABYTE, and MSI are affected by a security vulnerability that leaves them susceptible to early-boot direct memory access (DMA) attacks across architectures that implement a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and input–output memory management unit (IOMMU). UEFI and IOMMU are designed to enforce a security
The Register
Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace' Chinese authorities on Thursday certified the China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI), a vast research network that Beijing hopes will propel the country to the forefront of networking research.…
Bleeping Computer
This month's extended security update for Windows 11 broke Message Queuing (MSMQ), which is typically used by enterprises to manage background tasks. [...]
The Register
Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail Even Amazon isn't immune to North Korean scammers who try to score remote jobs at tech companies so they can funnel their wages to Kim Jong Un's coffers.…
Dark Reading
In the latest attacks against the vendor's SMA1000 devices, threat actors have chained a new zero-day flaw with a critical vulnerability disclosed earlier this year.
Bleeping Computer
Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students. [...]