Security News This Week: US Energy Firm Targeted With Malicious QR Codes in Mass Phishing Attack
At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas last weekend, thousands of hackers competed in a red-team challenge to find flaws in generative AI chat…
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HHS Launches ‘Digiheals’ Project to Better Protect US Hospitals From Ransomware
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H), a research support agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said today that…
How X Is Suing Its Way Out of Accountability
On July 19, Bloomberg News reported what many others have been saying for some time: Twitter (now called X) was losing advertisers, in part because…
A Huge Scam Targeting Kids With Roblox and Fortnite ‘Offers’ Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
Thousands of websites belonging to US government agencies, leading universities, and professional organizations have been hijacked over the last half decade and used to push…
An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass
One of your Mac’s built-in malware detection tools may not be working quite as well as you think. At the Defcon hacker conference in Las…
A New Attack Reveals Everything You Type With 95 Percent Accuracy
Of course, generative AI tools are the talk of the security industry this year. And Microsoft is no exception. In fact, since 2018, the company…
GitHub’s Hardcore Plan to Roll Out Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
You’ve heard the advice for years: Turn on two-factor authentication everywhere it’s offered. It’s long been clear that using only a username and password to…
Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time Nobody Got Sued
In early August of 2008, almost exactly 15 years ago, the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas was hit with one of the worst scandals…
Leaked Yandex Code Breaks Open the Creepy Black Box of Online Advertising
The code also shows how Yandex can combine data from multiple services. McCrea says in one complex process, an adult’s search data may be pulled…
Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating
In September last year, a scandal blew up the world of high-stakes, livestreamed poker: In a hand at Las Vegas’ Hustler Live Casino, which broadcast…
Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
Internet-of-things devices have been plagued by security issues and unfixed vulnerabilities for more than a decade, fueling botnets, facilitating government surveillance, and exposing institutional networks…
A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
Plenty of people tried to access the system. Over the past three years, it has captured 21 million login attempts, with more than 2,600 successful…