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More than 4,400 Sophos firewall servers remain vulnerable to critical exploits

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 4,400 Internet-exposed servers are running versions of the Sophos Firewall that’s vulnerable to a critical exploit that allows hackers to execute malicious code, a researcher has warned.…

Microsoft to lay off 10,000 workers, blames decelerated customer spending

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Microsoft is laying off about 10,000 employees by the end of Q3 of its 2023 fiscal year, the company confirmed today. Microsoft's Securities and Exchange Commission filing (PDF) described the…

Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies

Enlarge / A computer-generated gavel hovers over a laptop. (credit: Getty Images) Some artists have begun waging a legal fight against the alleged theft of billions of copyrighted images used to train AI…

ChatGPT has investors drooling, but can it bring home the bacon?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its responses included: “It is likely that its…

Meta sues “scraping-for-hire” service that sells user data to law enforcement

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal…

An aviation expert explains how the FAA’s critical NOTAM safety system works

Enlarge / An air traffic control tower is seen at JFK airport on January 11 in New York City. (credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Late in the evening of Jan. 10, 2023, an…

Vulnerability with 9.8 severity in Control Web Panel is under active exploit

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting. “This is an unauthenticated RCE,” members…

Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers

(credit: Fortinet) An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations with advanced custom-made malware, the company said in an autopsy report on Wednesday.…

Third-party Twitter clients stopped working, and nobody’s sure why

Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not working, with no update or outreach from Twitter. (credit: Nathan Coppen/Getty Images) Tweetbot,…

A widespread logic controller flaw raises the specter of Stuxnet

Enlarge In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as programmable logic controllers. The…