Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:20:00 +0000
Attacks on Microsoft’s Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:50:18 +0000
The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Hacker Samy Kamkar is debuting his own open source version of a laser microphone—a spy tool that can invisibly pick up the sounds inside your home through a window, and even the text you’re typing.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 23:20:00 +0000
From tricking companies into handing over victims’ personal data to offering violence as a service, the online doxing ecosystem is not just still a problem—it’s getting more extreme.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:20:00 +0000
A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target’s Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities. Microsoft is working on fixes for the issue.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:20:00 +0000
As digital threats against US water, food, health care, and other vital sectors loom large, a new project called UnDisruptable27 aims to help fix cybersecurity weaknesses where other efforts have failed.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Experts say the “nonsensical” policy proposal, which largely aligns with Donald Trump’s agenda, would weaken the US agency tasked with protecting election integrity, critical infrastructure, and more.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”
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