This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data.
The Hopfield network can store patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an incomplete or slightly distorted pattern, the method can find the stored pattern that is most similar.
Read more about the research that led to this year’s physics prize: https://t.co/QuIdxRvuEP
1/ The ongoing Snowflake situation has made me realize just how dangerous ghost logins – a SaaS-based persistence technique that I coined last year – can be as an initial access vector.
So what is a ghost login, exactly?
Critical bug in Windows systems. It is possible to take control of the system via Wi-Fi. The user does not have to do anything. All he needs is for someone within range of his wifi to want to hack him. The attack is simple, repeatable, reliable. https://t.co/2d8bur9rYI
NEW: Mandiant says cybercriminals stole a "significant volume of data" from Snowflake customers.
Mandiant and Snowflake say they've notified 165 affected customers so far that their cloud-stored data may have been stolen. But there's more to come...
https://t.co/5t0bfh1zFQ
New breach: Last week, 361M unique email addresses were collated from malicious Telegram channels. Data also included passwords and often, the website they were entered into, captured by info stealer malware. 58% were already in @haveibeenpwned. More: https://t.co/5DSTy4xfLN
I am not "bearish" on the price of bitcoin: one cannot be bearish on a bubble since by definition it can be explosive (both ways). I am "bearish" on the concept and the use of something fragile as investment.