Security Roundup: Leak of Top-Secret US Intel Risks a New Wave of Mass Surveillance
US defense secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday said he was considering “additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets,” and...
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Are You Being Tracked by an AirTag? Here’s How to Check
While some guides to finding AirTags recommend using Bluetooth scanners, Galperin does not consider this method to be reliable for...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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