Amazon plans warning cards to regulate AI usage
In light of ongoing concerns that artificially intelligent systems can discriminate against different groups, Amazon plans to distribute warning cards for software sold by its cloud computing division. The card is a documentation template that provides critical information on important factors such as fairness and bias, which examine how a system affects different user subpopulations […]
Black Friday sales trigger early holiday sales at Meta
Meta has seen its holiday sales arrive earlier than expected, indicating a shift in overall consumer behavior in the United States, according to Nicola Mendelsohn, Meta Vice President of Global Business, who said the holiday season triggered early Black Friday sales for the company. According to Mendelsohn, the company’s Black Friday sales this year are […]
Dolphin malware discovered by researchers
Dolphin, a sophisticated backdoor discovered by ESET researchers, expands the ScarCruft APT group’s arsenal with a wide range of spying capabilities, including monitoring drives and portable devices and exfiltrating files of interest, keylogging and taking screenshots, and stealing credentials from browsers. Its functionality is restricted to specific targets, to which the backdoor is deployed following […]
Researchers take down KmsdBot malware
Akamai reported that during ongoing research on the KmsdBot, a syntax error caused the bot to stop sending commands, effectively killing the botnet, resulting in the end of the cryptomining botnet that was also used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Akamai researchers previously published a blog post about the KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet with command-and-control […]
Foxconn crisis leads to shortages in iPhone supply
Buyers of the iPhone 14 Pro should expect to wait, and wait some more, to get their hands on the device and other iPhones due to unrest at Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone factory, which produces 70% of all iPhones worldwide, over China’s strict COVID restrictions and unfair payments. Foxconn workers in COVID masks clashed […]
Lastpass breached by threat actors
LastPass, the password manager, has informed customers that unknown attacker breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident in August 2022. The attacker also managed to access customer data stored in the compromised storage service, but that passwords are safe and encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture. LastPass is one […]
