Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Matters in a World of Fakes
Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover| Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:03:24 +0000
The first booking photo of a US president stands out among a sea of photoshops and AI-generated images online.
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New law could turn UK into a hacker's playground
It looks as if people are at last waking up to a second extraordinarily dangerous requirement buried within a UK government bill designed to promote the nation as a surveillance state. It means bureaucrats can delay or prevent distribution of essential software updates, making every computer user far less secure.
A poor law
This incredibly damaging limitation is just one of the many bad ideas buried in the UKs latest piece of shoddy tech regulation, the Investigatory Powers Act. What makes the law doubly dangerous is that in the online world, you are only ever as secure as your least secure friend, which means UK businesses will likely suffer by being flagged as running insecure versions of operating systems.
Trump’s Prosecution Is America’s Last Hope
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 01:03:03 +0000
Social norms—not laws—are the underlying fabric of democracy. The Georgia indictment against Donald Trump is the last tool remaining to repair that which he’s torn apart.
Read moreThe Last Hour Before Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Plane Crash
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:22:20 +0000
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash.
Read moreManaged Apple IDs, iCloud, and the shadow IT connection
Apple is continuing its expansion of Managed Apple IDs for business customers, giving them increased access to iCloud services and Apple Continuity features. Companies get iCloud backup and new syncing options (particularly for passwords, passkeys, and other enterprise credentials) — along with access to business-friendly Continuity features such as Universal Control.
But they could also lead to increased data sprawl and siloing. Ironically, those issues are typically related to shadow IT, even though they’re enterprise features. Let’s look at what’s going on and how enterprises can take advantage of these features and services without running into trouble.
Why The Chainsmokers Invest in—and Party With—Niche Cybersecurity Companies
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Musician Alex Pall spoke with WIRED about his VC firm, the importance of raising cybersecurity awareness in a rapidly digitizing world, and his surprise that hackers know how to go hard.
Read moreThe Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open
Credit to Author: Surya Mattu| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Unlike web browsers, mobile apps increasingly make it difficult or impossible to see what companies are really doing with your data. The answer? An inspectability API.
Read moreNew Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000
The hackers, who mostly targeted victims in Hong Kong, also hijacked Microsoft’s trust model to make their malware harder to detect.
Read moreThe Most Popular Digital Abortion Clinics, Ranked by Data Privacy
Credit to Author: Kristen Poli| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills are surging in popularity. Which are as safe as they claim to be?
Read moreWhy and how to create corporate genAI policies
As a large number of companies continue to test and deploy generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools, many are at risk of AI errors, malicious attacks, and running afoul of regulators — not to mention the potential exposure of sensitive data.
For example, in April, after Samsung’s semiconductor division allowed engineers to use ChatGPT, workers using the platform leaked trade secrets on least three instances, according to published accounts. One employee pasted confidential source code into the chat to check for errors, while another worker shared code with ChatGPT and “requested code optimization.”