Proprietary Stuff and Openwashing
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Majority of zero-day flaws exploited in 2022 were in Microsoft, Google and Apple products: Report
Zero-day vulnerabilities in software products offered by major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple were largely exploited by hackers in 2022, according to information security firm Mandiant. The report found that operating systems were the most exploited product type, followed by browsers and network management products. Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage groups were found to have exploited the most zero-day vulnerabilities, with North Korean and Russian actors also among the hackers exploiting the security flaws. The report tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022.
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US Citizen Hacked by Spyware
The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen's phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.
A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of the case. [...]
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Global cybersecurity skills gap increasing: report [iophk: Windows TCO]
More organisations were impacted financially due to breaches: Nearly 50 per cent of organisations suffered breaches in the past 12 months that cost more than US$1 million to remediate, which is up from 38 per cent of organisations compared to last year’s report.
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Stanford Researchers Create ChatGPT Clone for Just $600: Introducing Alpaca AI [Ed: Openwashing!]
According to the story by Interesting Engineering, they have unveiled an AI model called Alpaca that works as well as the ChatGPT but was trained for only $600. This low-cost solution to create a model of this power is made possible by an open-source language model called LLaMA 7B from Mark Zuckerberg's company, Meta.
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Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2023
Date: April 16-18th, 2023
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands