Free Airline Miles, Hotel Points, and User Data Put at Risk by Flaws in Points Platform
Travel rewards programs like those offered by airlines and hotels tout the specific perks of joining their club over others. Under the hood, though, the…
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A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It
“Making models more resistant to prompt injection and other adversarial ‘jailbreaking’ measures is an area of active research,” says Michael Sellitto, interim head of policy…
How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the time, but it doesn’t matter,”…
Apple iOS, Google Android Patch Zero-Days in July Security Updates
CVE-2023-26083 is an issue in Arm Mali GPU driver for Bifrost, Avalon, and Valhall chips, rated as having a moderate impact. The vulnerability was used…
‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ Players Hit With Worm Malware
According to TechCrunch it is unclear why the malware is spreading or what exactly the impact is on gamers. Valve, the owner of Steam, did…
The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’
The US Supreme Court has previously ordered the government to obtain search warrants before seeking information that may “chronicle a person’s past movements through the…
Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down
Embarrassed, angry, victimized. That’s just a few of the words my friend uses to describe his recent run-in with a cybercriminal that used a hacked…
ChatGPT Plugins Pose Security Risks
Over the past eight months, ChatGPT has impressed millions of people with its ability to generate realistic-looking text, writing everything from stories to code. But…
TETRA Radio Code Encryption Has a Flaw: A Backdoor
In a brief email, NCSC spokesperson Miral Scheffer called TETRA “a crucial foundation for mission-critical communication in the Netherlands and around the world” and emphasized…
China’s Breach of Microsoft Cloud Email May Expose Deeper Problems
Microsoft wrote last week that its “investigations have not detected any other use of this pattern by other actors and Microsoft has taken steps to…
NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters
Beaten, blinded by pepper spray, corralled like animals, and indiscriminately arrested for marching against police violence and racial injustice. Such was the fate hundreds of…
Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws
Hundreds of miles above Earth, thousands of satellites are orbiting the planet to keep the world running smoothly. Timing systems, GPS, and communications technologies are…