Tesla Berlin Gigafactory to be without power for another week following eco-terrorist attack
Musk called them the dumbest eco-terrorists on Earth
VMware forced to patch dangerous vulnerabilities in discontinued products
Flaws so severe, the company felt the need to update the now-abandoned ESXi hypervisor
Sam Altman's iris-scanning Worldcoin crypto project has been banned in Spain over privacy concerns
Would you hand over your iris scans for free crypto?
Ransomware group scams its partner out of a share of $22 million by faking an FBI takedown
Who said there is "honor among thieves?"
Russian authorities used facial recognition tech to identify and arrest Navalny funeral attendees
Cameras were installed days before the ceremony
Microsoft left a kernel-level, zero-day bug in Windows for six months before patching it
Hackers exploited the issue to spread an extremely stealthy rootkit
Researchers prove they can exploit chatbots to spread AI worms
Hackers could deploy the worms in plain text emails or hidden in images
In context: Big Tech continues to recklessly shovel billions of dollars into bringing AI assistants to consumers. Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Bard, Amazon's Alexa, and Meta's Chatbot already have generative AI engines. Apple is one of the few that seems to be taking its time upgrading Siri to an LLM and hopes to compete with an LLM that runs locally rather than in the cloud.
More than 100,000 GitHub repositories found spreading malicious packages
An effective way to compromise the software supply chain with developers' help
WhatsApp scores major legal victory over Pegasus spyware maker, forcing it to provide closely-guarded code
Pegasus is thought to have been used by governments around the world to spy on political dissidents, journalists and human rights activists
Foreign spies are learning how to sabotage critical infrastructure, Australian intelligence agency warns
Adversarial nations could plan a major disruption in the future
Researchers develop self-destructing circuits to defend against attacks, counterfeiting
This chip will self-destruct in three, two...
Biden orders security probe into Chinese "connected" vehicles, labeling them a potential security threat
"I'm not going to let that happen on my watch"
Consumer Reports finds dangerous security vulnerabilities in cheap doorbell cameras
Affordable products don't always providing the most secure smart home experience
Tumblr and WordPress blogs will be exploited for AI model training
Automattic is striking an AI-focused deal, but may have already abused some private content
A ransomware group says it has stolen almost 200GB of data from Epic Games (updated)
The group has not posted any evidence supporting its claim
Criminals hijacked more than 8,000 trusted domains, sent millions of malicious emails
The campaign has reportedly been operational since at least 2022
LockBit ransomware group bounces back a week after law enforcement had disrupted hacking operation
LockBit claims sensitive details of Donald Trump's court cases prompted the operation
Number of data breaches falls globally, triples in the US
The US has overtaken Russia as the most-breached country
Why it matters: A recent study investigating data breaches throughout 2023 reveals a total of 299.8 million accounts were compromised across the year. While this figure is alarmingly high, it represents an 18% reduction from the 366.7 million breached accounts in 2022. Despite this global decrease, the situation in the United States has worsened, with the number of breaches tripling, positioning it as the world's most frequently targeted country.
Facial recognition software discovered in college campus vending machines
Manufacturer offers biometric-based analytics services to advertisers
Avast fined $16.5 million by FTC for selling user browsing data to advertisers
Avast harvested customers' data while promising them privacy
Apple secures iMessage against threats from quantum computers
Signal was the first mainstream messaging app to offer post-quantum security
MIT's minuscule terahertz RFID tag foils counterfeiters with metallic glue
System authenticates articles with better than 99 percent accuracy
Wyze cameras were once again letting users see other people's homes after cloud outage
Some users were able to see thumbnails from cameras that weren't theirs