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IonQ’s new single processor quantum error decoder minimizes the classical computing overhead in quantum error correction.

The idea that AI could break away and work toward its own agenda is looking increasingly plausible to researchers and experts.

Only 21% of industrial security leaders report a complete OT asset inventory, even as 88% call their programs mature.

The nine critical security defects could be exploited for arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.

The cybercrime platform leveraged AI at every step of the attack chain, including writing social engineering messages and deciding targets.

The browser update resolves several critical-severity memory safety and memory corruption flaws.

Debates over the plausibility of these doomsday scenarios have heated up since several executives endorsed slowing the technology’s development for safety reasons.

Emerging from stealth with $16 million in pre-seed funding, Outerlimit offers a decentralized authorization layer designed to discover, observe, and block harmful autonomous AI actions.

Remote attackers could trigger the critical-severity flaw to access privileged internal functionality.

Unauthenticated attackers could send malicious traffic to BIG-IP to achieve remote code execution.

The cybercrime group is unhappy with its description in an FBI report and threatens to leak stolen information. 

The critical-severity flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary scripts.

The attackers used a compromised BigCommerce application key held by Ribon to access customer data.

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Debates over the plausibility of these doomsday scenarios have heated up since several executives endorsed slowing the technology’s development for safety reasons.

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The cybercrime group is unhappy with its description in an FBI report and threatens to leak stolen information. 

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The critical-severity flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary scripts.

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Abdelhamid Naceri, a former Microsoft Germany employee, is the exploit leaker Nightmare Eclipse, aka Chaotic Eclipse. 

The US, Japan, Germany and Australia have published a joint report detailing the scope of North Korea’s WaterPlum campaign.

Noopur Davis never planned a career in cybersecurity. She was a developer at Intergraph, and for many years that was all she wanted to be.

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Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), today announced support for iPad and Android devices with the latest release of, Afaria, their mobile device management and security solution for the enterprise."The popularity of highly functional smart mobile devices, such as iPhone, Android and now the iPad, is significantly impacting enterprise mobility support requirements as these devices increasingly cross over from consumers into the corporate setting," said Jack Gold, president and principal analyst of J. Gold Associates, LLC.

Suppose a friend wants you to meet her cousin Bill at a black tie affair. You don’t have a photo of Bill to help you find him among the five hundred or so people in attendance—you only have your cousin’s description of Bill.

Sunbelt Software today announced the availability of Sunbelt CWSandbox 3.0, an upgraded version of their automated dynamic malware analysis tool. CWSandbox leverages unique behavior analysis technology for the identification of malicious threats like PDF exploits, fake media players and other socially engineered attacks against enterprise or government networks.

PhoneGuard, a provider of mobile security services, today announced availability of its anti-virus software for Android smartphones. Partnering with China based NetQin Technology, PhoneGuard provides a defense against threats including viruses, spyware and malware that target mobile devices.

Anti-virus products scan for malware in two ways. They look for sequences of bits that are found in programs that are known to be “evil” (but which are not commonly found in “good” programs). And they run programs in sandboxes and look for known malicious actions. The first approach only catches known malware instances, while the second can also catch variants of these. Still, many malware agents slip through the cracks undetected...

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Posing as the legitimate sorted-btree package, indexed-btree hides a malware trigger in its prototype method.

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Microsoft fixed vulnerabilities across Azure and AI-branded products, with privilege escalation flaws accounting for the majority.

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