Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is a follow-up to last week’s story: New commercial spyware for phones – Smart Thinking Solutions This is Google describing how they countered the Hermit smartphone malware and discusses their Project Zero for countering zero-day threats. Spyware vendor targets users in Italy and Kazakhstan (blog.google) Your best defence against …
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Here are a couple of articles looking at the issues raised around Google’s AI chatbot, LaMDA (language model for dialog applications), because Blake Lemoine, an engineer working with the system, has claimed LaMDA is sentient. Google was not pleased – they suspended Blake, for publishing confidential company property. Google does …
Google researchers are reporting on spyware that is active on both Apple and Android smartphones – the spyware is called Hermit and Google has taken steps to protect Android users. The software developed and marketed by RCS Lab, based in Milan, will exfiltrate messages ,contacts and password information from targeted …
It is Father’s Day this Sunday, and just in case you still have to buy your Dad a present, I have some ideas over on Octagon Technology that might help you out: Of course if you are well organised, you bought a gift, card and booked the restaurant or food …
We will start with the good news – the zero-day threat Follina/msdt.exe has been patched. Let’s hope that it really is the fix we all need! Microsoft June 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes 1 zero-day, 55 flaws (bleepingcomputer.com) There are other fixes in the update, for Excel, Edge, Microsoft networking etc …
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