Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Telly TV tracks you and bombards you with ads on a dedicated second screen. It could help normalize smartphone-style surveillance in your living room.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000
An explosion of interest in OpenAI’s sophisticated chatbot means a proliferation of “fleeceware” apps that trick users with sneaky in-app subscriptions.
Read moreCredit to Author: Fyodor Yarochkin| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000
An overview of the Lemon Group’s use of preinfected mobile devices, and how this scheme is potentially being developed and expanded to other internet of things (IoT) devices. This research was presented in full at the Black Hat Asia 2023 Conference in Singapore in May 2023.
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Credit to Author: Jagadeesh Chandraiah| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 10:00:36 +0000
Interest in OpenAI’s latest version of its interactive language model has spurred a new wave of scam apps looking to cash in on the hype
Read moreCategories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: VPN Tags: Privacy Tags: always on Tags: location Tags: sensitive information Most VPN users can be put in one of three categories. It all depends on your needs and your threat model. |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 21:33:43 +0000
A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. U.S. prosecutors say Mikhail Pavolovich Matveev, a.k.a. “Wazawaka” and “Boriselcin” worked with three different ransomware gangs that extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, schools, hospitals and government agencies.
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There are vital national interests in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline public services and automate mundane tasks performed by government employees. But the government lacks in both IT talent and systems to support those efforts.
“The federal government as a whole continues to face barriers in hiring, managing, and retaining staff with advanced technical skills — the very skills needed to design, develop, deploy, and monitor AI systems,” said Taka Ariga, chief data scientist at the US Government Accountability Office.
Daniel Ho, associate director for Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University, agreed, saying that by one estimate the federal government would need to hire about 40,000 IT workers to address cybersecurity issues posed by AI.
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 17:59:09 +0000
Yes, it’s a buffer overflow bug. No, it’s not going get fixed.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000
The Meta-owned app offers end-to-end encryption of texts, images, and more by default—but its settings aren’t as private as they could be.
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Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 20:14:49 +0000
The families of victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo are challenging the platforms they believe led the attacker to carry out a racist massacre.
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