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Will attacks be as big as those targeting MOVEit? Maybe not, but they still can be plenty bad.

Hanks and other celebrities have recently become targets of AI-powered ad scams.

Adding fake watermarks to real images, evading current watermarking methods is not hard.

Keep your logins locked down with our favorite apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.

"I'm sure it's a special love code that only you and your grandma know."

Vulnerability allows attackers to tamper with data stored in device memory.

Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.

Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions.

Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come.

Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU’s message-scanning law.

Plus: Mozilla patches 10 Firefox bugs, Cisco fixes a vulnerability with a rare maximum severity score, and SAP releases updates to stamp out three highly critical flaws.

Remote code execution requiring no authentication fixed. 2 other RCEs remain unpatched.

If your software package involves VP8 video encoding, it's likely vulnerable to attack.

WhatsApp, Instagram add animated AI chat avatars, including Snoop Dogg as dungeon master.

A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

Is compression equivalent to general intelligence? DeepMind digs up more potential clues.

Despite lack of specifics, rumored smartphone collaboration has everyone guessing.

The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.

SoundThinking is purchasing parts of Geolitica, the company that created PredPol. Experts say the acquisition marks a new era of companies dictating how police operate.

Feature hopes to remove language barriers, but will speakers know if translations are faulty?

Previous CVE submission failed to mention that thousands of apps were affected.

Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal government careens toward a possible shutdown.

A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private.

Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.

As civil conflict continues in and above the streets of Khartoum, satellite images from the Conflict Observatory at Yale University have captured the catastrophic damage.

Image recognition and voice features aim to make the AI bot's interface more intuitive.

Getty will indemnify customers against lawsuits and pay artists on "recurring basis."

Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs.

With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals.