Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
For much of the cybersecurity industry, malware spread via USB drives represents the quaint hacker threat of the past decade—or...
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You Need to Update Google Chrome or Whatever Browser You Use
China-linked hackers are increasingly moving beyond espionage and into the disturbing world of power grid attacks. Threat researchers at security...
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Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle
The casino and hotel company MGM Resorts has dealt with widespread system outages and service disruptions at its properties in...
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The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
“In most of these areas, you already have existing statutes that prohibit the behaviors that we want to continue to...
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The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires
The personal data for Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was requested 226 times; President Alberto Fernández’s data was...
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China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again
Some evidence suggests the 2021 India-focused hacking campaign and the new power grid breach identified by Symantec were both carried...
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AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
The United States Environmental Protection Agency blocked its employees from accessing ChatGPT while the US State Department staff in Guinea...
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Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare
Eighty-four percent of the brands that researchers studied share or sell this kind of personal data, and only two of...
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Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker
Company leadership expects to generate more than $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023, it said in an August investor statement....
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Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’
Senior United States intelligence officials met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties groups to field concerns...
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US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs
The United States Department of Treasury and United Kingdom Foreign Office announced today that they have sanctioned 11 people for...
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The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
For years, some cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws...
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