Category: Shorts

Developer Alert: Dangerous TurkoRat Malware Found in NPM Packages for Node This security update discusses two malicious packages discovered in the npm package repository. One of them, nodejs-encrypt-agent, was found to contain an open source trojan called TurkoRat along with a dependency named axios-proxy. This trojan was also found to masquerading as another legitimate npm…

Active Directory vs. Exposed Attack Surface: Who’ll Win This Fight? The common practice of syncing passwords between AD and the cloud identity provider means any AD breach is a potential risk to the SaaS environment as well. To learn more about how Silverfort addresses weaknesses in your identity security posture, check out our resource, Silverfort…

Google to Phase Out Third-Party Cookies Starting in 2024 Google officially flips the switch on its Privacy Sandbox initiatives and says it’s going to start phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome browser starting in the first quarter of 2024. That’ll be about a year later. Google says it’ll eventually turn off support for these cookies…

The Suspicious Candy Truck for ChatGPT: Is ChatGPT the First Back ChatGPT, an AI language model developed by OpenAI, is a kind of backdoor attack on RL fine-tuning in natural language processing. In other words, someone has managed to reverse-engineer the way neural networks are trained and fed data to improve their performance in an…

I Bought a ChatGPT Plus Subscription and It’s Worth It During my initial interactions with ChatGPT Plus, I was not fully convinced that OpenAI’s $20-a-month subscription was worth it. So far, the web browsing features are slow to load and the answers still contain fake information. However, I have started to enjoy the new chat…

Boston is excited about generative AI Generative AI, city officials were told in an email that went out from the CIO to all city officials on May 18, is a great way to get started on memos, letters and job descriptions. Generative AI can also help with translation into other languages so that a City’s…

The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was too friendly The most unusual thing about this week’s Senate hearing on AI was how affable it was. Many people think that the hearing suggests we’re headed into an era of industry capture in AI. Its launch of image and text generation tools like ChatGPT and deals with…

Apple’s Prehistoric Planet 2 is full of new faces, both feathery and ferocious Prehistoric Planet 2 is like the first season. It’s a weeklong event, with new episodes releasing daily starting on May 22nd. The difference, of course, is that this show uses CG technology to recreate life-like scenes instead of real-life animals. This allows…

Microsoft exec urges employees to improve its stock performance in lieu of raises According to a report, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer has a solution for employees unhappy with the company’s decision to stop giving raises: make the stock price go up. CMO Chris Capossela wrote in a message to employees that “the most important lever…

Meta’s next round of layoffs will begin next week Meta employees brace for another round of layoffs. The company had already cut thousands of jobs in March and April, and this latest round of cuts will affect workers in business-focused positions. Clegg comments on the company’s preparedness in a meeting recording obtained by Vox. “It’s…