- — Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War
- As civil conflict continues in and above the streets of Khartoum, satellite images from the Conflict Observatory at Yale University have captured the catastrophic damage.
- — A Tricky New Way to Sneak Past Repressive Internet Censorship
- With the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals.
- — Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
- Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs.
- — The Shocking Data on Kia and Hyundai Thefts in the US
- Plus: MGM hackers hit more than just casinos, Microsoft researchers accidentally leak terabytes of data, and China goes on the PR offensive over cyberespionage.
- — Chinese Spies Infected Dozens of Networks With Thumb Drive Malware
- Security researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within African operations of European and US firms.
- — You Need to Update Google Chrome or Whatever Browser You Use
- Plus: Spyware-packing ads, TikTok GDPR violations, Elon Musk investigations, and more.
- — Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious Ransomware Cycle
- Cyberattacks on casinos grab attention, but a steady stream of less publicized attacks leave vulnerable victims struggling to recover.
- — The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
- Senators are meeting with Silicon Valley's elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?
- — The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires
- A scandal unfolding in Argentina shows the dangers of implementing facial recognition—even with laws and limits in place.
- — China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again
- Signs suggest the culprits worked within a notorious Chinese hacker group that may have also hacked Indian electric utilities years earlier.
- — AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
- State and local governments in the US are scrambling to harness tools like ChatGPT to unburden their bureaucracies, rushing to write their own rules—and avoid generative AI's many pitfalls.
- — Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare
- Plus: Apple patches newly discovered flaws exploited by NSO Group spyware, North Korean hackers target security researchers, and more.
- — Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
- Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-911 surveillance policy may be doomed.
- — Axon's Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker
- The CEO’s vision for Taser-equipped drones includes a fictitious scenario in which the technology averts a shooting at a day care center.
- — US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs
- Authorities have sanctioned 11 alleged members of the cybercriminal groups, while the US Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments against nine people accused of being members.
- — The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
- And the first case on the docket may well be Russia’s cyberattacks against civilian critical infrastructure in Ukraine.
- — Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile
- Here's how to request that your personal information not be used to train Meta's AI model. "Request" is the operative word here.
- — The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
- After leaving many questions unanswered, Microsoft explains in a new postmortem the series of slipups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key.
- — How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
- Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.
- — Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
- Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of.
- — The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
- Posts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his "troll farm," researchers claim.
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