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Still using authenticators for MFA? Software for sale can hack you anyway

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft on Tuesday profiled software for sale in online forums that makes it easy for criminals to deploy phishing campaigns that successfully compromise accounts, even when they’re protected by the most common form of multi-factor authentication. The phishing kit is the engine that’s powering more than 1 million malicious emails each...

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Microsoft Teams is adding 3D avatars for people who want to turn their webcams off

Enlarge / Customizing a Mesh for Teams avatar. Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business attire from the waist up. (credit: Microsoft) There are plenty of reasons to turn your camera off during a Zoom or Teams meeting—maybe you’re cleaning your office and you don’t want to look like you’re...

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Amazon unveils three satellite user terminals, plans broadband service in 2024

Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon’s Project Kuiper. (credit: Amazon) Amazon has designed three satellite broadband user terminals and will start offering Internet service in 2024, the company announced today. The standard terminal, designed for residential and small business customers, is expected to cost Amazon less than $400 to make; Amazon did...

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OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks

Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning text output that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to OpenAI. Also on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat has been running on GPT-4 all along. If it performs...

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Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase

Enlarge (credit: Don Farrall/Getty Images) In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that’s part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At the time, LVHN said that the attack “involved” a patient photo system related to radiation oncology treatment. The health care group said that...