A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns
This week, WIRED reported that a group of prolific scammers known as the Yahoo Boys are openly operating on major...
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These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
In a series of posts in one Telegram channel, highlighted by Warner, who is also involved in Intelligence for Good,...
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The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics
Police and federal agencies are responding to a massive breach of personal data linked to a facial recognition scheme that...
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Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry
Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home. Source link
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The US Government Is Asking Big Tech to Promise Better Cybersecurity
The pledge offers examples of how companies can meet the goals, although it notes that companies “have the discretion to...
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A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
As a test of their resulting AI tool, the researchers checked its outputs with one cryptocurrency exchange—which the paper doesn’t...
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China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey...
Read more →The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
The disruption to GPS services started getting worse on Christmas day. Planes and ships moving around southern Sweden and Poland...
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The White House Has a New Master Plan to Stop Worst-Case Scenarios
The Biden administration is updating the US government’s blueprint for protecting the country’s most important infrastructure from hackers, terrorists, and...
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School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant
Controversial gunshot-detection company ShotSpotter has deployed more than 25,000 microphones across 170 cities worldwide. This week, WIRED and South Side...
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Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons...
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‘ArcaneDoor’ Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks
Network security appliances like firewalls are meant to keep hackers out. Instead, digital intruders are increasingly targeting them as the...
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