Microsoft Will Finally Kill an Encryption Cipher That Enabled a Decade of Windows Hacks
Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years. This follows more than a decade…
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AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda
Two people allegedly linked to China’s infamous Salt Typhoon espionage hacking group seem to have previously received training through Cisco’s prominent, long-running networking academy. Meanwhile,…
Warnings Mount in Congress Over Expanded US Wiretap Powers
“The commercial landlords of the buildings where tens of millions of Americans go to work every day can be forced to assist the government with…
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
When a privacy specialist at the legal response operations center of Charter Communications received an emergency data request via email on September 4 from Officer…
The US Won’t Sanction China for Salt Typhoon Hacking
An AI image creator startup left its database unsecured, exposing more than a million images and videos its users had created—the “overwhelming majority” of which…
2 Men Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Hacker Group Likely Trained in a Cisco ‘Academy’
To try to determine the probability of those name repetitions being a coincidence, Cary checked two databases of Chinese names and consulted with Yi Fuxian,…
A Complete Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Document Dumps
For the past few months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has engaged in a sprawling and extremely public investigation of disgraced financier and…
Security News This Week: Oh Crap, Kohler’s Toilet Cameras Aren’t Really End-to-End Encrypted
An AI image creator startup left its database unsecured, exposing more than a million images and videos its users had created—the “overwhelming majority” of which…
Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database
An AI image generator startup left more than 1 million images and videos created with its systems exposed and accessible to anyone online, according to…
‘Signalgate’ Inspector General Report Wants Just One Change to Avoid a Repeat Debacle
A United States Inspector General report publicly released today found that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could have put US troops and military operations at…
Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1
As the large language models powering generative AI tools slurp up ever more data across the web, Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince said at…
FBI Says DC Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Kept Buying Bomb Parts After January 6
Federal agents on Thursday announced the arrest of a suspect charged with planting the two pipe bombs discovered near the US Capitol complex on the…