Author: Johnna Wise

The most up-to-date version of Anthropic’s Claude AI, Claude 3 Opus, is now available on Amazon’s Bedrock managed AI service, bringing higher performance on more open-ended tasks to enterprise developers who rely on Amazon for generative AI model access. According to an announcement today from Amazon, Claude 3 Opus roughly doubles the accuracy of the… Continue reading Anthropic’s latest version of Claude comes to Amazon Bedrock

Delinea rolls out Secret Server SOAP API flaw fixes, while researcher claims the vendor ignored his findings for weeks.

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling… Continue reading Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

Brian Krebs reported that X (formerly known as Twitter) started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links. The problem is: (1) it changed any domain name that ended with “twitter.com,” and (2) it only changed the link’s appearance (anchortext), not the underlying URL. So if you were a clever phisher and registered fedetwitter.com, people would… Continue reading X.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs

HomeUber Makes Safety a Priority With Uber Car Seat Service By Rebecca Edwards Apr 16, 2024 2 min read SafeWise experts have years of firsthand experience testing the products we recommend. Learn how we test and review.  Image: Liudmila Chernetska, iStockIn a groundbreaking move aimed at simplifying travel for families, ride-sharing giant Uber has joined… Continue reading Uber Makes Safety a Priority With Uber Car Seat Service

IDC’s latest preliminary data on the smartphone market suggests Apple’s traditionally weakest smartphone quarter might be a little weaker than usual this year as political tension gnaws away at the company. If IDC is correct, this unravelling has lopped a few more hairs from Apple’s Big Tech scalp, with Q1 iPhone sales down as much as 9.6%.… Continue reading Apple’s iPhone slumps as consumers wait for AI

A new paper presents a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for solving certain hard lattice problems. This could be a big deal for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, since many of them base their security on hard lattice problems. A few things to note. One, this paper has not yet been peer reviewed. As this comment points out: “We… Continue reading New Lattice Cryptanalytic Technique

The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage,… Continue reading Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

HomeOver 500,000 Roku Streaming Accounts Hacked—Urgent Call for Unique Passwords By Katie McEntire Apr 15, 2024 1 min read SafeWise experts have years of firsthand experience testing the products we recommend. Learn how we test and review.  Need to Know from SafeWiseOver half a million Roku accounts were compromised in a a hacking attack.Around 400… Continue reading Over 500,000 Roku Streaming Accounts Hacked—Urgent Call for Unique Passwords