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Microsoft recently shared the discovery of several critical vulnerabilities in open-source bootloaders, notably GRUB2 . These findings are particularly significant for us Linux security admins, who must now address these newly identified risks to ensure robust boot security on their systems.

"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”

Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.

Microsoft has announced that hotpatch updates are now available for business customers using Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 on x64 (AMD/Intel) systems, starting today. [...]

First 27 satellites.

A survey by Naoris Protocol highlights growing concerns among IT leaders over cybersecurity vulnerabilities, indicating that a shift may be needed toward decentralized infrastructure for resilience and security, ComputerWeekly reports.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn’t due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but […]

A generative AI nudify service has been found storing explicit deepfakes in an unprotected cloud database.

A Y Combinator partner proudly launched an AI recipe app that told people how to make “Actual Cocaine” and a “Uranium Bomb.”

​North Korea's IT workers have expanded operations beyond the United States and are now increasingly targeting organizations across Europe. [...]

Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.…

Encrypted messaging app Signal continues to see spiking downloads in the wake of the messaging scandal that saw The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to a group chat where high-ranking officials in the Trump administration were discussing an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The resulting press coverage around the leak of these sensitive plans […]