Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:17:35 +0000
Suspected Russian hackers have compromised a series of websites to utilize sophisticated spyware exploits that are eerily similar to those created by NSO Group and Intellexa.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:19:42 +0000
In addition to its longstanding password spraying attacks, Microsoft says Iran-backed hacker group Peach Sandstorm— or APT 33—has developed custom malware dubbed “Tickler.”
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The US intelligence community formally blames Iran for Trump campaign hack, aircraft-tracking platform FlightAware says a “configuration error” exposed sensitive user data, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:02:41 +0000
The AI ethics nonprofit Humane Intelligence and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology are launching a series of contests to get more people probing for problems in generative AI systems.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000
Amazon has updated its instructions for how customers should more securely implement AWS’s traffic-routing service known as Application Load Balancer, but it’s not clear everyone will get the memo.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:31:13 +0000
Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and more—all available online. After months of confusion, leaked information from a background-check firm underscores the long-term risks of data breaches.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A fix is coming, but data analytics giant Palantir says it’s ditching Android devices altogether because Google’s response to the vulnerability has been troubling.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:27:03 +0000
APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump’s and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:59:59 +0000
Security researchers say they’ve extracted digital management keys from select electronic lockers and revealed how they could be cloned.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Please don’t, actually. But do update your Shimano Di2 shifters’ software to prevent a new radio-based form of cycling sabotage.
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