Four days before he leaves office, US president Joe Biden has issued a sweeping cybersecurity directive ordering improvements to the way the government monitors its networks, buys software, uses artificial intelligence, and punishes foreign hackers. The 40-page executive order unveiled… Read More "A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More"
The United States telecom giant AT&T disclosed a breach in July involving call and text messaging logs from six months in 2022 of “nearly all” its more than 100 million customers. In addition to exposing personal communication details for a… Read More "Hackers Likely Stole FBI Call Logs From AT&T That Could Compromise Informants"
“Even VPNs do not lead to circumvention” in India, Gosain told WIRED. In the early hours of the US ban, it was unclear exactly how feasible it would be to get around the restrictions for US accounts. It seemed that… Read More "How to Get Around the US TikTok Ban"
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Schools have faced an onslaught of cyberattacks since the pandemic disrupted education nationwide five years ago, yet district leaders across the country have employed a pervasive pattern of obfuscation that leaves the real victims in the dark, an investigation by… Read More "Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden"
The rapid rise of DeepSeek, a Chinese generative AI platform, heightened concerns this week over the United States’ AI dominance as Americans increasingly adopt Chinese-owned digital services. With ongoing criticism over alleged security issues posed by TikTok’s relationship to China,… Read More "Foreign Hackers Are Using Google’s Gemini in Attacks on the US"
“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL injection flaws in web applications (which have plagued security teams for more than two decades),”… Read More "DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot"
Adding an in-house communication service known as “ChatMe,” a cryptocurrency exchange (Huione Crypto), and US dollar-backed stablecoin (“USDH”) suggests that Huione Guarantee is looking to become a truly full-service, self-sufficient platform. The website for USDH, the Elliptic researchers say, describes… Read More "The ‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Ever Is Growing at an Alarming Rate, Report Says"
“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open from a security perspective,” says independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who was not involved in the Wiz research but specializes in discovering exposed databases. “This type… Read More "Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data"
The law says it will be “unlawful” for entities to “distribute, maintain or update” the app including its source code, or by “providing services” that allow it to keep running as it is now. This distribution, maintenance, or updates could… Read More "How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work"
Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale, with that data ending up with a location data company whose subsidiary has… Read More "Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location"
