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KeePass Exploit Allows Attackers to Recover Master Passwords from Memory without any A proof-of-concept has been made available for a security flaw affecting the KeePass password manager. It allows an attacker to recover a victim’s master password in cleartext. This is useful because it lets the attacker recover the password in plaintext. The vulnerability relates…

13-year jail term for cyber crimes handed to U.K. fraudster behind Fletcher had been one of the pioneers of the zero trust movement and pleaded guilty last month to a number of charges relating to his role in facilitating fraud and transferring criminal property. He had created a channel on Toroda’s website, iSpoof, which allowed…

API Security: Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data? Hackers are exploiting APIs to gain access to and exfiltrate sensitive data. Without an accurate API inventory and insight into sensitive data traffic, you cannot adequately address potential vulnerabilities and data leakage. Adhering to compliance regulations When you consider the increasing amount of data being collected and…

The Reign of Bad Magic in Cyber Espionage Goes Back Over a Decade Bad Magic, also known as Red Stinger or simply Bad Magic, has been active for much longer than previously thought. According to Kaspersky, its spear-phishing operations date back to December 2020, but earlier this month, Malwarebytes discovered at least five waves of…

Crypto Mining Operations by Indonesian Cybercriminals Profitably Exploit AWS A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. The group’s primary mission is to create EC2 instances to facilitate their crypto mining activities, the researchers write.…

Meta fined $1.3 billion for data transfer violations by EU regulators This is big news. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been fined a record $1.3 billion by European Union data protection regulators for transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S. in violation of the GDPR privacy laws. According to the E.D.P.B., Facebook must bring…

When SAM meets NeRF: This AI model can segment anything in 3D This chapter opens with a review of how well Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) has been doing. It was a huge hit and changed the game in 2D image segmentation entirely. The next step is to extend this success to include 3D segmentation.…

Supercharge your chat with Auto-GPT to quickly create and send GPT prompts Auto-GPT automates a lot of the work that ChatGPT allows you to do with your text-to-speech platform. For example, you can write code using Auto- GPT and have it manage an entire software project for you. You can set up specific roles for…

Neeva, the would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its business Neeva, one of the startups that looked like a serious competitor to Google Search, announces that it is shutting down its search engine. The company says that building search engines is hard. It built a good search engine, but it didn’t have the resources to…

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023: what to expect At Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)Apple will be holding its biggest conference ever. We expect some big announcements, including a new 15-inch MacBook Air and an update to the M2 chip used in the MacBook Air. Where can I watch WWDC?With that said, let’s get…