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Vulnerabilities for AI and ML Applications are Skyrocketing
In their haste to deploy LLM tools, organizations may overlook crucial security practices. The rise in threats like Remote Code Execution indicates an urgent need to improve security measures in AI development.
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Roku: Credential Stuffing Attacks Affect 591,000 Accounts
Almost 600,000 Roku customers had their accounts hacked through two credential-stuffing attacks several weeks apart.
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NYC start-up founder Sophia d’Antoine, 30, dies after being mowed down crossing UES street
Sophia d’Antoine, founder of cybersecurity startup Margin Research, died last week after she was hit by a car in New York City.
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Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages
Dental IoT devices caused millions of Euros in damages for Swiss company, says report.
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Number of data breaches falls globally, triples in the US
The Global data breach statistics report comes from Surfshark, which counts every leaked email address used to register for online services as a separate user account.
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Julian Assange on Google, surveillance and predatory capitalism
Since the last time we were together inside his prison lodgings at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a few things have changed. Julian Assange has grown a beard, looks more pallid and pauses when I ask…
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Walmart Canada hacked, credit card details of 60,000 customers exposed
60,000 customers affected due to Walmart Canada hack
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle — Or Change Its Target
If a hacker attacks your TrackingPoint smart gun over its Wi-Fi connection, you may find the weapon is aiming at a different target than you think.
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Oppressive states such as Ecuador crush the web’s power | Nick Cohen
Knowledge alone is next to useless in countries whose rulers enforce self-censorship
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Seven-Year Cyberattack Campaign Linked to Russian Government, Researchers Say
A group of Russian hackers linked to Moscow’s government have for seven years been targeting intelligence information from governments and organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia, acco
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NSA warns of growing danger of cyber-attack by nation states
The deputy director of the US National Security Agency warns of the increasing danger of destructive cyber attacks by states.
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Why Avast won't show source code to the government, but others do
Ask a chief executive of any security company what the crown jewel of their business is, and they'll tell you it's the source code. In a day and age of government spying, hackers, and backdoors, there's a great deal of mistrust and paranoia in the tech industry. Governments particularly are on edge that other states are using tech firms to get access to their most critical systems and data, including the US government...
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Congratulations! Humans Have Taken Back The Internet's #1 Position from Bots
For the first time in several years, humans now account for more Internet traffic than bots, but bot activity is increasing at smaller websites.
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Coming soon to your smart TV: The next wave of cybercrime
Smart TVs are opening a new window of attack for cybercriminals, as the security defenses of the devices often lag far behind those of smartphones and desktop computers. Running mobile operating systems such as Android, smart TVs present a soft target due to how to manufacturers are emphasizing convenience for users over security, a trade-off that could have severe consequences.
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Worst passwords of 2015 unveiled by SplashData
If your password is on this list, you better change it ASAP. The 25 worst passwords of 2015 have been released by Los Gatos, Calif.-based SplashData. The company, which makes password management software, compiles the annual list from the most common passwords leaked online each year — more than two million in 2015.
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Assange says ‘weak’ French intelligence bowed to US after spying leaks
France is a weakened country that relies too heavily on its subservient intelligence relationship with the United States and the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told French radio on Friday. Speaking to France Inter radio from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has been holed up for nearly four years, Assange was asked if he was disappointed that France had refused to grant him political asylum last year.
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U.S. Had Cyberattack Plan if Iran Nuclear Dispute Led to Conflict
In the early years of the Obama administration, the United States developed an elaborate plan for a cyberattack on Iran in case the diplomatic effort to limit its nuclear program failed and led to a military conflict, according to a coming documentary film and interviews with military and intelligence officials involved in the effort. The plan, code-named Nitro Zeus, was devised to disable Iran’s air defenses, communications systems and crucial...
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Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’
The Justice Department, impatient over its inability to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers, demanded Friday that a judge immediately order Apple to give it the technical tools to get inside the phone. It said that Apple’s refusal to help unlock the phone for the F.B.I. “appears to be based on its concern for its business model and public brand marketing strategy,” rather than a legal rationale.
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Should We Worry That We’re Headed for Cyber World War I?
At core, when we talk about cyberwar, we’re just talking about warfare conducted through computers and other electronic devices, typically over the Internet. As the very ’90s prefix cyber- (when was the last time you heard someone talk about cyberspace with a straight face?) suggests, it’s been part of our cultural and political conversations since the early ’80s. In recent years, however, such conversations have picked up...
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Go Ahead, Hackers. Break My Heart
MY LIFE DEPENDS on the functioning of a medical device: a pacemaker that generates each and every beat of my heart. I know how it feels to have my body controlled by a machine that is not working correctly, and this is why I encourage fellow security researchers to delve into these medical devices and find ways to make them more secure. Four years ago, I woke up lying on the floor, but I had no idea how I’d gotten there or for how long I’d been out.
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