Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating
In September last year, a scandal blew up the world of high-stakes, livestreamed poker: In a hand at Las Vegas’ Hustler Live Casino, which broadcast…
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Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
Internet-of-things devices have been plagued by security issues and unfixed vulnerabilities for more than a decade, fueling botnets, facilitating government surveillance, and exposing institutional networks…
A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
Plenty of people tried to access the system. Over the past three years, it has captured 21 million login attempts, with more than 2,600 successful…
How to Remove Your Info From Google With the ‘Results About You’ Tool
In 2022, Google launched the “Results about you” tool to help people remove personal info from the company’s search results. With billions of searches happening…
New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips
Intel is releasing fixes for a processor vulnerability that affects many models of its chips going back to 2015, including some that are currently sold,…
What Doctors Wish You Knew About HIPAA and Data Security
A former Department of Homeland Security adviser and a doctor, Chris Pierson is CEO of BlackCloak, a company that specializes in personal digital protection from…
The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes
When Russian troops seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last year, following the invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “a declaration…
Microsoft’s AI Red Team Has Already Made the Case for Itself
For most people, the idea of using artificial intelligence tools in daily life—or even just messing around with them—has only become mainstream in recent months,…
Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
Krishnan says the creator of the system published a video appearing to show the chatbot operating and generating a scammy email. They were also trying…
How to Automatically Delete Passcode Texts on Android and iOS | WIRED
This feature has been disappearing and reappearing from Google Messages and isn’t available in every region. If you don’t see the menu option, those could…
Security News This Week: The Cloud Company at the Center of a Global Hacking Spree
Between a cascade of indictments against former US president Donald Trump, a tumultuous 2024 election season (in which Trump is a main character), and the…
The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list could reach the moon. (Speaking…