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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…
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…
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…