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Submission + - SPAM: LockBit hacker gang leaks stolen Boeing files

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Russia-linked hacker gang has leaked sensitive files stolen from key US defense contractor Boeing, just a day after the group was blamed for a bank cyberattack that disrupted US Treasuries markets.

LockBit, a ransomware gang that extorts its victims by encrypting their systems and releasing their data unless payment is made, published the stolen Boeing files on its darkweb site early Friday.

The group was also tied to a Thursday cyber attack on the US financial services division of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's largest bank by assets.

The breach obstructed ICBC's ability to settle US Treasuries transactions, forcing the bank to send couriers with USB drives around Manhattan to clear the deals in an astonishing disruption to the US financial system, Bloomberg reported.

'We've seen back-to-back attacks against a massive defense contractor and a massive financial institution. It's concerning,' Brett Callow, a threat analyst with cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, told DailyMail.com.
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Submission + - E.U. Moving Aggressively to Digitize Its Citizens 3

Submitted by Press2ToContinue
Press2ToContinue writes: The European Parliament and Member States have reached an agreement on introducing the Digital Identity.

Also reported this week was that the United Nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and partners of the Rockefeller Foundation are launching a campaign to accelerate digital ID, digital payments, and data sharing rollouts in 50 countries by 2028, all under the umbrella of digital public infrastructure (DPI). They call it the “50-in-5 Agenda.”

It appears the European Union will be one of the more aggressive governmental bodies to move in the direction of digitizing its citizens. Once this is accomplished, the next step will be the digital currency. And the digital euro (cbdc) is due to be rolled out very soon

It seems a small leap to imagine that the social credit system is coming next. Although governments have enjoyed a long history of abusing their powers in the past, it appears we are very confident our governments will treat us fairly in the future.

Submission + - Scammers using AI to mimic voices: (palmbeachpost.com)

Submitted by SonicSpike
SonicSpike writes: The evolving use of artificial intelligence technology, which gives machines the ability to mimic human input, has been put to uses that are creative, controversial and can be — consumer experts warn — crooked.

Known as AI for short, the technology has been used by students to get out of writing papers, by chess players to practice against an untiring opponent and by retailers to analyze customer preferences and provide “personal” shopping recommendations. Most recently, the use of AI by movie and television producers to replace human talent spurred Hollywood writers to go on strike and make headlines.

Getting too little attention, Florida’s consumer watchdog agency says, is the use of the technology to put images and information pulled from social media and other online sources to create convincing and personalized scam calls, texts and emails.

One example highlighted by the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in a recent bulletin is a “grandparent” scam enhanced by technology.

In an older version of the scam, a caller would greet “Grandma” or “Grandpa” before saying, “It’s me — I know I sound funny because I have a cold,” and then make an urgent plea for money to get out of a scrape — such as bail or money to pay fines or car repairs after an accident. The plea comes with one more little request — not to tell anyone else about the mishap.

Now, using audio and video clips found online, the con artist can clone the voice of a family member to make the call more compelling.

Submission + - MS Windows 40th Birthday (neowin.net)

Submitted by cusco
cusco writes: Forty years ago today Microsoft introduced its new Graphical User Interface for MS-DOS. Inspired by the Xerox Park project Alto, as was the Apple Mac, it was their first attempt to address the user unfriendliness of the standard computer interface. Named Windows 1.0 after the 'windows' it created to view individual running programs, it generated quite a bit of interest at the initial reveal. Unfortunately difficulty in ironing out bugs (especially in memory management) delayed release for two years, to November 1985.

Submission + - Apple will pay $25 million in DOJ discrimination settlement (cnbc.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Apple was accused of not advertising positions on its external website and erecting hurdles such as requiring mailed paper applications.

"These less effective recruitment procedures deterred U.S. applicants from applying and nearly always resulted in zero or very few mailed applications that Apple considered for PERM-related job positions, which allowed Apple to fill the positions with temporary visa holders," according to the settlement agreement between Apple and DOJ.

Submission + - Russian Cyberattack Disrupted Ukraine Power Grid Amid Mass Missile Strikes (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Threat hunters at Mandiant are shining the spotlight on a pair of previously undocumented operational technology (OT) attacks by Russia’s “Sandworm” hackers that caused an unplanned power outage and coincided with mass missile strikes on critical infrastructure across Ukraine.

The attacks, which spanned several months and culminated in two disruptive events last October, leveraged what Mandiant is describing as a “novel technique” for impacting industrial control systems (ICS) and OT.

“This attack represents the latest evolution in Russia’s cyber physical attack capability,” the company warned, noting a “growing maturity of Russia’s offensive OT arsenal that includes the ability to pinpoint novel OT threat vectors, develop new capabilities, and leverage different types of OT infrastructure to execute attacks.

Comment Re:as seen on tumblr (Score 1) 273

by gilgongo (#63983644) Attached to: Aussies Angry Over Being Asked to Use QR Codes at Restaurants

The thing that melts my brain with apps (assuming they are native apps, not just responsive versions of the desktop website) is that the companies who make them happily pay a *separate* team to produce them to the team they use to create the web app. Like Amazon for example: their native app is almost indistinguishable from their web app on a phone. Same goes for pretty much all sites (Facebook, AirBnb...)

Why? Just so they can do push notifications and have little red dot?

Comment Re:Coincidentally, I agree (Score 1) 40

by gilgongo (#63918531) Attached to: Even Google Insiders Are Questioning Bard AI Chatbot's Usefulness

Mind you, ChatGPT says...

Me:
I have a spreadsheet of about 500 lines of customer feedback. Can you generate a summary of that for me?

ChatGPT:
Certainly! If you could provide a few sample entries or key themes from your spreadsheet, I can help create a summary for you. You can share the general sentiments, common issues, or any specific aspects you'd like to focus on. This will enable me to generate a concise summary of the customer feedback without the need to disclose the entire content of the spreadsheet.

Me:
That's not what I ... oh never mind.

Comment Coincidentally, I agree (Score 1) 40

by gilgongo (#63918363) Attached to: Even Google Insiders Are Questioning Bard AI Chatbot's Usefulness

By total coincidence today, I thought I'd try giving Bard a bunch of customer feeback about something (about 500 free form responses) to see if it could summarise it.

First I asked: "Can Bard summarise customer feedback?" It said:

"Yes, Bard can summarize customer feedback. Bard is a large language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code. Bard can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

To summarize customer feedback, Bard can identify the main themes and trends in the feedback, as well as the overall sentiment. Bard can also quantify the feedback, such as by counting the number of times a particular issue is mentioned."

Then I asked: "How do I give Bard customer feedback to summarise?"

To get Bard to summarize a spreadsheet of customer feedback, you can follow these steps:

- Clean and prepare the data. Make sure that the data is in a consistent format and that there are no errors. You may also want to remove any irrelevant data, such as customer names and contact information.
- Export the data to a text file. You can do this using a spreadsheet program such as Excel or Google Sheets.
- Upload the text file to Bard. You can do this by dragging and dropping the file into the Bard interface, or by clicking the "Upload file" button.
- Provide Bard with a prompt. Tell Bard exactly what you want it to summarize. For example, you could say: Summarize the customer feedback in this spreadsheet.

Click the "Summarize" button. Bard will then generate a summary of the feedback, highlighting the most important points.

Welp, suffice to say that literally none of that worked. No "upload file" button. No drag/drop. No "summarize" button.

WTF??

Comment Re:What about Trump? (Score 1) 184

by Ly4 (#63894899) Attached to: Nobel Prize Awarded To Covid Vaccine Pioneers

The credit should go to the adviser that came up with the name 'Operation Warp Speed'. Trump thought the name was cool, and mostly left the project alone.

Compare and contrast that with how his administration handled PPE ramp-up, with Kushner using allocations for even more grifting, state governments literally bringing in armed guards to protect their shipments, and suppliers begging for contracts to be allocated so they could spin up production.

Comment Re:Utter rubbish (Score 1) 323

The solid horizontal lines represent 500 year segments. They are all equidistant.

The fainter horizontal lines represent 100 year segments. They are all equidistant.

The scale does not change.

I have no idea where you are seeing a four-year time block. And you should read the footnote in the block around 16000 BCE.

Comment Re:Utter rubbish (Score 1) 323

by Ly4 (#63849730) Attached to: Conditions On Earth May Be Moving Outside the 'Safe Operating Space' For Humanity

The scale never changes; it just has more annotations in the last block. The sources are listed at the top right.

cartoon ... cartoon ... cartoon
Now that is an ad hominem (unlike what is referenced here or here. The data is valid, even when it's presented in pen and ink.

In fact, that post is an example of very effective visual communication, and the result of several years of research.

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