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In episode 42 of the AI Fix, our hosts discover why ads for the Neo Gamma robot are so sinister, Graham plays peek-a-boo with a crow, humans give up writing, an AI designs a drug, an upstart AI agent gets everyone’s attention, and a talking fish offers our hosts some sage advice. Graham wonders if AIs have feelings, and Mark introduces Graham to the reversal curse and explains why AIs don’t know what happened. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley. Powered by RedCircle Hosts:…
Two bipartisan bills aimed at supporting rural water systems have been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate, offering enhanced cybersecurity defenses for small water and wastewater utilities. These bills focus on offering enhanced cybersecurity defenses, which are crucial for protecting the infrastructure of small water and wastewater utilities. These utilities, often located in rural areas, are vital for providing clean water and managing wastewater for local communities. By strengthening their cybersecurity measures, the bills aim to safeguard these essential services from potential cyber threats and attacks, ensuring the continued safety and reliability of water resources for rural populations. U.S. Senator Catherine…
It’s the month of top seeds, big upsets, and Cinderella runs by the underdogs. With March Madness basketball cranking up, a fair share of online betting will be sure to follow—along with online betting scams. Since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2018, individual states can determine their own laws for sports betting. Soon after, states leaped at the opportunity to legalize it in some form or other. Today, nearly 40 states and the District of Columbia have “live and legal” sports betting, meaning that people can bet on single-game sports through a retail or online sportsbook or a combination…
Noah Heckman // Windows Vista didn’t have many fans in the Windows community (to put it lightly). It beaconed in a new user interface, file structure, and a bunch of darn popups asking if you really want to execute the software you just told it to execute. Many sysadmins have found this annoying, but even more annoying was all the end users calling to tell them about how annoying it was. There was a simple solution: just disable it. Over time, some went back and turned it on, while others did not — instead letting the GPO’s disabling UAC remain…
Whistic announced the next generation of its Assessment Copilot, a third-party risk management (TPRM) solution that integrates AI into the vendor assessment process for a fully automated workflow. With this release, Whistic builds upon the initial release of Assessment Copilot and the Whistic AI suite of capabilities launched in May 2024. Whistic delivers a modern, AI-first approach that improves the efficiency and pace of TPRM assessments, reduces costs, achieves more in-depth insights, and enhances risk mitigation efforts—redefining the future of vendor risk management. Assessment Copilot is a true AI partner, giving users full control over when and how to leverage…
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has announced its acquisition of Wiz, a leading cloud and cybersecurity platform for $32 billion. This acquisition, Google’s largest to date, signals the company’s enhancement of the security capabilities of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Wiz, founded in 2020, has quickly risen to prominence with its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Its technology allows organizations to gain visibility into their cloud environments, identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security risks across multi-cloud deployments. The massive $32 billion deal, far bigger than any previous acquisition, shows just how crucial cloud security is to Google’s long-term strategy. This move also stresses…
Solana (SOL) futures trading in its debut on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Monday generated $12.3 million in notional daily volume, finishing the day with $7.8 million in open interest, far less than the totals of Bitcoin and Ethereum futures in their launches, according to K33 Research.But in an X post Tuesday, K33 Head of Research Vetle Lunde wrote that the SOL futures start was similar to BTC and Ethereum relative to their market capitalizations at the time.”If you normalize volumes to market caps at the launch days, the launch aligns closer to the two,” Lunde wrote. With little fuzz…
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Nation-state actors and cybercrime gangs abuse malicious .lnk files for espionage and data theft Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2025 11 state-sponsored APTs exploit malicious .lnk files for espionage and data theft, with ZDI uncovering 1,000 such files used in attacks. At least 11 state-sponsored threat groups have been abusing Windows shortcut files for espionage and data theft, according to an analysis by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). Trend ZDI researchers discovered 1,000 malicious .lnk files used by nation-state actors and cybercrime groups to execute hidden malicious commands on a victim’s machine by exploiting the vulnerability ZDI-CAN-25373. Since 2017, the…