CheckPoint buys Perimeter81, SecureWorks Cuts 300 Jobs, and News from BlackHat – ESW #328
In the enterprise security news,
- Check Point buys Perimeter 81 to augment its cybersecurity
- 2023 Layoff Tracker: SecureWorks Cuts 300 Jobs
- Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating
- ‘DoubleDrive’ attack turns Microsoft OneDrive into ransomware
- NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices
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Hosts
- 1. Tools alone won’t save us but if we have tools – why don’t we at least use them?
- 2. Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use
- 3. Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating
- 4. Don’t expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models. Security was an afterthought
- 1. Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention
- 2. CrowdStrike at BlackHat: Speed, Interaction, Sophistication of Threat Actors Rising in 2023
- 3. Hackers red-teaming A.I. are ‘breaking stuff left and right,’ but don’t expect quick fixes from DefCon: ‘There are no good guardrails’
- 4. Researcher says they were behind iPhone pop-ups at Def Con
- 5. Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it’s surprisingly easy
- 6. ‘DoubleDrive’ attack turns Microsoft OneDrive into ransomware
- 7. Black Hat USA 2023: Five Lessons in Artificial Intelligence
- 8. Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI
- 9. AI fears overblown? Theoretical physicist calls chatbots ‘glorified tape recorders’
- 10. 22% of BlackHat USA attendants believe AI takeover is already here
- 11. Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy
- 12. Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you’re not an enterprise user
- 13. NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices
- 14. US watchdog to announce plans to regulate ‘surveillance industry’
- 15. Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc
“Hey people,” he wrote. “If you manage Active Directory domain controllers, I want to give you some UNOFFICIAL advice that is solely my personal opinion: Disable Secure Time Seeding for w32time on your DCs.”
- 16. Squirrel: 3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep