Montana’s Looming TikTok Ban Is a Dangerous Tipping Point
Montana lawmakers voted 54-43 today to ban TikTok from operating in the state and forbid app stores from offering it for download. The legislation is…
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The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
As a result, jailbreak authors have become more creative. The most prominent jailbreak was DAN, where ChatGPT was told to pretend it was a rogue AI…
Leaked Pentagon Documents May Herald a New Era of Revelations
the United States government has been scrambling this week thanks to a leak of sensitive Pentagon documents that include an array of recent intelligence updates…
LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new verification features that enable users…
How to Use Apple’s New All-In-One Password Manager
Most people don’t use a password manager or two-factor authentication—even people who know it’s a good idea—because installing and managing yet another app just sounds exhausting. Well, if…
Pinduoduo, a Top Chinese Shopping App, Is Laced With Malware
A United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement database WIRED obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the agency has been leaning on…
Free VPN Amnezia Helps Users Avoid Censorship in Russia
The Russian government has banned more than 10,000 websites for content about the war in Ukraine since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The…
The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain
Just-in-time logistics mean that even short-term cyberattacks can have serious consequences. Hacks that disrupt fertilizer or pesticide production can force farmers to sit out planting seasons. Breaches…
ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
When OpenAI released GPT-3 in July 2020, it offered a glimpse of the data used to train the large language model. Millions of pages scraped from…
A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
At a location he keeps secret, John Honovich was on his laptop, methodically scouring every link on a website for a conference half a world…
Massive 3CX Supply Chain Hack Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms
Software supply chain attacks, in which hackers corrupt widely used applications to push their own code to thousands or even millions of machines, have become…
Mullvad VPN and Tor Project Create New Privacy-Focused Mullvad Browser
The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and…