Last Pass Admits Last Year’s Attack Hacked a DevOps Engineer’s Home Computer Elon Musk Wants to Challenge “Voc” OpenAI and Will Your Self-Driving Work If You Miss Your Payments Can the car come back on its own?
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Password manager LastPass acknowledged on Monday that the personal computer of one of its DevOps engineers was hacked as part of a now well-known attack in August last year.
The attack resulted in the theft of encrypted backups that were stored on Amazon’s cloud storage. Worse, an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups, some source code, and technical information were also stolen. Worse, they were reported to have been used to target another employee in order to obtain the credentials and keys used to decrypt certain storage volumes within a cloud-based storage service.
Getting hacked is one thing if you’re a regular company, but if you’re the sort of thing that’s supposed to protect companies where people think they can safely store their passwords and access keys – and you Get hacked – that’s another thing entirely.
This week, more details of the hack emerged as LastPass It detailed how the attacker went after a developer who was one of four people at the company who had access to the decryption keys needed to access the cloud storage service., This happened while LastPass was still dealing with the first piracy incident From cloud storage service and source code.
ITWorldCanada.com reported on the hack, “The second incident, targeting a developer, Quickly spotted threat actor to use exfiltered information during first incidentPrior to reset completed by our teams, to calculate and eventually exfilter data from cloud storage resources.
It also detailed how a developer’s home computer was compromised by exploiting a vulnerable third-party media software package, which enabled remote code execution capability and allowed the threat actor to implant keylogger malware. Gave.
Using this, they were able to enter the employee’s master password, as after the employee had authenticated with multi-factor authentication, and gained access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.
LastPass said its investigation and response to the second incident is ongoing.
Source: IT World Canada
Elon Must has another project to keep him busy – fighting the “Voc” AI – ChatGPT.
Did you know that Musk is one of the co-founders of OpenAI?But he opted out of that project due to unknown reasons. and became one of its most fanatical Critic. Back in December, Musk criticized OpenAI for training AI to ‘wake up’.
he also criticized Relationship to OpenAI Along with Microsoft, which recently injected $10 billion into the AI firm.
“OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “open” AI), a non-profit company that served as a counterweight to Google, but is now a closed The source has become a profit-maximizing company effectively controlled by Microsoft,” Musk said. “I don’t intend to at all.”
Now billionaires are reportedly reaching out to AI researchers About setting up a new lab to challenge OpenAI.
Musk has his eye on Igor Babushkin, a researcher who recently left Google’s DeepMindAI lab.
Babushkin told the information that he had not yet officially agreed to join Musk’s AI lab plans.
Source: gizmodo
Meanwhile, as Musk Distracted by the challenging OpenAI, yet another Twitter competitor has emerged.
It’s called “BlueSky” and the app is still available as an invite-only beta. But its arrival on the App Store indicates that it is about to launch publicly.
According to app intelligence firm data.ai, the Bluesky iOS app Launched on February 17, 2023 and has around 2,000 installs.
News site TechCrunch was invited to try out the new platform, which it described as “functional, if still bare-bones, a Twitter-like experience”.
Users can create a handle, then they can click the plus button to create a post of up to 256 characters, which can include photos, search for and follow other people, then share them on their home timeline. You can see their updates.
the interface is very Like Twitter, showing a profile picture, background, bio and metrics, and a user’s number of followers and posts, as well as how many people they are following. The profile feed is also divided into two sections, like Twitter: Posts and Posts & Replies.
But while Twitter asks ‘What’s up?’ While Blue Sky asks ‘What’s up?’…
BlueSky certainly has obvious parallels with Twitter. It started within Twitter back in 2019, when Dorsey served as CEO and took funding from Twitter for years.
After leaving his CEO duties, Dorsey expressed the potential for BlueSky to reduce the ability of large, centralized platforms – such as Twitter – to have so much power in terms of deciding which users and communities engage in speech. and who will be responsible for moderating that content. He shared those thoughts after Twitter banned President Trump’s account in 2021.
With Twitter’s scorched earth cost-cutting moves, and Musk’s war on “awakened” AI — there may be room for another competitor. and twitter is Weak – Rival Mastodon Has close to 10 million followers and is growing by over a million followers per week. But it’s still uncertain whether BlueSky will be able to tackle Twitter, but a presence in the App Store and the fact that Dempsey is behind it means you can’t count on it.
Source: techcrunch
The Chinese manufacturing giant responsible for producing the Airpods says its customers are pressuring it to move out of China.
The company, Goertech, has already lost the contract to manufacture the AirPods Pro to Apple, but it continues to manufacture the regular Airpods.
kazuyoshi yoshinaga, The company’s deputy chairman said the pressure is coming from US technology firms and is being directed at all suppliers. “I would say that currently 90 percent of them, they’re looking [moving]” he said. “It’s the brand companies’ decisions.”
Goertec says it is now investing $280 million in a new plant in Vietnam and is looking to start operations in India.
“We get requests from our customers almost every month,” he said. “Do you have any plans to expand in India?”
The pressure to move away from using Chinese-based supply chain companies is no doubt a part of excessive reliance on a single source, China’s recent extreme COVID measures and ongoing power supply concerns in China, but with The diplomatic tension is part of the US migration from China to other places in Asia.
Source: apple insider
Can Your Self-Driving Care Reclaim Itself?
Ford has a better idea and has submitted a patent document to the United States Patent Office in August 2021, which has now been formally published, giving the details as the title of the document. Says, “Systems and methods for retrieving a vehicle.”
The system is capable of disabling the functionality of one or more components of a vehicle, from the engine to the air conditioning. For vehicles with autonomous or semi-autonomous driving capability, the system may drive the vehicle closer to a tow truck, a repossession facility or, if a lending institution warrants it, the vehicle may drive itself to a junkyard.
The patent included a lot of details on how this system would work, explaining that if your car already has an infotainment system set up to receive something like over the air updates, the system could probably work without any physical modification. Could
Before this warning will also be issued The seizure process is triggered, ranging from small to loss of cruise control or automatic seat controls or even air conditioning. It may play an unpleasant sound whenever the owner is in the vehicle. This can disable the key fob or even lock the owner out of the car. Or in the case of self-driving cars, it may turn on itself.
The patent application doesn’t mean the automaker will introduce the technology described, but Ford may try to protect the idea in order to do so, according to online blog The Drive.
Source: Drive
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