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- They’ve begun: Attacks exploiting vulnerability with maximum 10 severity ratingon October 3, 2023 at 9:53 pm
Will attacks be as big as those targeting MOVEit? Maybe not, but they still can be plenty bad.
- Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarmon October 3, 2023 at 7:22 pm
Hanks and other celebrities have recently become targets of AI-powered ad scams.
- Researchers show how easy it is to defeat AI watermarkson October 3, 2023 at 3:01 pm
Adding fake watermarks to real images, evading current watermarking methods is not hard.
- 6 Best Password Managers (2023): Features, Pricing, and Tipson October 3, 2023 at 12:00 pm
Keep your logins locked down with our favorite apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.
- Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzleon October 2, 2023 at 7:59 pm
"I'm sure it's a special love code that only you and your grandma know."
- Vulnerable Arm GPU drivers under active exploitation. Patches may not be availableon October 2, 2023 at 7:37 pm
Vulnerability allows attackers to tamper with data stored in device memory.
- The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Biggeron October 2, 2023 at 3:07 pm
Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.
- Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimeson October 2, 2023 at 2:00 pm
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.
- How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Locationon October 1, 2023 at 12:00 pm
Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions.
- How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updateson October 1, 2023 at 11:00 am
Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come.
- Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japanon September 30, 2023 at 1:00 pm
Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU’s message-scanning law.
- Apple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flawson September 30, 2023 at 11:00 am
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.
- Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwideon September 29, 2023 at 10:59 pm
Remote code execution requiring no authentication fixed. 2 other RCEs remain unpatched.
- A new Chrome 0-day is sending the Internet into a new chapter of Groundhog Dayon September 28, 2023 at 9:23 pm
If your software package involves VP8 video encoding, it's likely vulnerable to attack.
- Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social appson September 28, 2023 at 7:52 pm
WhatsApp, Instagram add animated AI chat avatars, including Snoop Dogg as dungeon master.
- US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchaseson September 28, 2023 at 4:15 pm
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.
- AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says studyon September 28, 2023 at 3:43 pm
Is compression equivalent to general intelligence? DeepMind digs up more potential clues.
- Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI deviceon September 27, 2023 at 7:19 pm
Despite lack of specifics, rumored smartphone collaboration has everyone guessing.
- Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”on September 27, 2023 at 7:04 pm
The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.
- SoundThinking, Maker of ShotSpotter, Is Buying Parts of PredPol Creator Geoliticaon September 27, 2023 at 5:57 pm
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.
- Spotify uses AI to clone and translate podcaster voices in new pilot programon September 27, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Feature hopes to remove language barriers, but will speakers know if translations are faulty?
- Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-dayon September 27, 2023 at 12:47 am
Previous CVE submission failed to mention that thousands of apps were affected.
- Risk of a US Government Shutdown Is Fueled by Very Online Republicanson September 26, 2023 at 5:43 pm
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.
- GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attackon September 26, 2023 at 5:40 pm
A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private.
- Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the resulton September 26, 2023 at 3:43 pm
Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.
- Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial Waron September 25, 2023 at 7:55 pm
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.
- ChatGPT update enables its AI to “see, hear, and speak,” according to OpenAIon September 25, 2023 at 6:38 pm
Image recognition and voice features aim to make the AI bot's interface more intuitive.
- Getty Images subscribers to get access to AI image generatoron September 25, 2023 at 1:38 pm
Getty will indemnify customers against lawsuits and pay artists on "recurring basis."
- Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace Youon September 25, 2023 at 11:00 am
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.
- A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorshipon September 25, 2023 at 11:00 am
With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals.