OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security
For more than a month, security practitioners have been warning about the perils of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agentic tool that has taken the…
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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
So where do we go now? The researchers said that both the RTX 3060 and RTX 6000 cards are vulnerable. Changing BIOS defaults to enable…
Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption
The move, recently proposed by influential researcher Scott Aaronson, is a complete turnaround from the strict 90-day disclosure policies Google’s Project Zero pioneered two decades…
Iran’s hackers are on the offensive against the US and Israel
Israeli authorities say it has launched thousands of wiper attacks on Israeli companies, successfully hitting about 50. Its operatives’ hacking of security cameras across Israel…
Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of “anonymous” crime tips
I used P3’s own site to find the tips page for my local Philly “fusion center,” clicked “continue,” and was immediately sent to the “Greater…
Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms…
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
In an email, Aikido researcher Charlie Eriksen said the canister was taken down Sunday night and is no longer available. “It wasn’t as reliable/untouchable as…
After hackers hit an Iowa company, cars around the country failed to start
Driving after a DUI conviction can be a dicey experience. Many states require drivers, if they want to keep using their cars, to install ignition…
Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack
Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing supply chain attack that could have wide-ranging consequences…
Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
The actual legwork to activate this feature only takes a few seconds, but the 24-hour countdown makes it something you cannot do spur of the…
Hundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild
Google declined to comment beyond the blog post it released about its DarkSword findings. WIRED also reached out to PARS Defense via its X account…
World ID wants you to put a cryptographically unique human identity behind your AI agents
Over the last few months, tools like OpenClaw have shown what tech-savvy AI users can do by setting a virtual cadre of automated agents on…