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Strategically vague statement on AI risk prompts critics' response.

TikTok user data is exposed to Chinese ByteDance employees, a screen recording app goes rogue in Google Play, and privacy groups want Slack to expand encryption.

Spyware is sold to countries including Egypt, Indonesia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia.

Please, please, please do not actually install XP and use it. But if you must…

Brad Smith urges steps to curtail deepfakes "with an intent to deceive or defraud."

Researchers say never-before-seen malware may be used in Russian training exercises.

The coinventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music.

Worldcoin investor insists "Orb" iris scanner is not a "dystopian nightmare."

Just one state demanding free repair manuals could benefit all fixers.

Indirect prompt-injection attacks can leave people vulnerable to scams and data theft when they use the AI chatbots.

Google and Microsoft managers discussed tech's hottest topic during Ars Frontiers.

Group uses living-off-the-land attack and infected routers to remain undetected.

Researchers say the state-sponsored espionage operation may also lay the groundwork for disruptive cyberattacks.

The malicious iRecorder app has come to light, but its purpose remains shrouded.

Incident shows weakness of Twitter's verification system, speed of misinformation.

Firefly-powered AI generations match image perspective, lighting, and style.

And it's happening in plain sight.

“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they’ve been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution.

BrutePrint requires just $15 of equipment and a little amount of time with a phone.

In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”

The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement.

While the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose.

Plus: The FBI gets busted abusing a spy tool, an ex-Apple engineer is charged with corporate espionage, and collection of airborne DNA raises new privacy risks.

From USB worms to satellite-based hacking, Russia’s FSB hackers, known as Turla, have spent 25 years distinguishing themselves as “adversary number one.”

Asus finally responds after being castigated by users.

Cloud AI tools could leak confidential Apple company data; Apple works on its own LLM.

Montana’s TikTok ban will be impossible to enforce. But it could encourage copycat crackdowns against the social media app.

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered clues that further illuminate the hackers’ activities, which appear to have begun far earlier than originally believed.

The bane of low-cost Android devices is showing no signs of going away.

Will new TLDs undo decades of work to stop malicious links?