AI Is Being Used to ‘Turbocharge’ Scams
Code hidden inside PC motherboards left millions of machines vulnerable to malicious updates, researchers revealed this week. Staff at security firm Eclypsium found code within hundreds…
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How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
When Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, spoke at Google I/O on May 10, she laid out a vision for artificial…
The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
Digital rights activists working outside the country to support Iran say the US government’s support of circumvention tools has been valuable. “It’s certainly true that…
Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
“The security of iOS, once breached, makes it really challenging to detect these attacks,” says Wardle, who was formerly an NSA staffer. At the same…
Apple’s iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks
Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released major patches this month to fix multiple security flaws already being used in attacks. May was also a critical…
Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious…
Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Hit the US
TikTok user data is exposed to Chinese ByteDance employees, a screen recording app goes rogue in Google Play, and privacy groups want Slack to expand…
Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye
When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one question would come up again…
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Microsoft director of communications Caitlin Roulston says the company is blocking suspicious websites and improving its systems to filter prompts before they get into its…
China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
As state-sponsored hackers working on behalf of Russia, Iran, and North Korea have for years wreaked havoc with disruptive cyberattacks across the globe, China’s military…
Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
Despite that trend away from dark-web fentanyl sales, four members of the US Congress this week reintroduced a bill called the Dark Web Interdiction Act…
There’s Finally a Way to Improve Cloud Container Registry Security
As software supply chain attacks have emerged as an everyday threat, where bad actors poison a step in the development or distribution process, the tech…