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[[{"value":"When Sean Kelly bought a top-of-the-line vacuum cleaner, he imagined he was making a safe purchase. Little did he know that the cleaning machine scuttling about his family's feet contained…

 CLoudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 terabits per second. (Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link.) News article. Read More    

 Interesting map, from this paper. Blog moderation policy. Read More    

[[{"value":"The UK's Sellafield nuclear waste processing and storage site has been fined £332,500 by regulators after its IT systems were found to have been left vulnerable to hackers and unauthorised…

[[{"value":"International law enforcement continues to dismantle the LockBit ransomware gang's infrastructure. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog."}]] Read More  

Organizations that get relieved of credentials to their cloud environments can quickly find themselves part of a disturbing new trend: Cybercriminals using stolen cloud credentials to operate and resell sexualized…

 Hackers can execute commands on a remote computer by sending malformed emails to a Zimbra mail server. It’s critical, but difficult to exploit. In an email sent Wednesday afternoon, Proofpoint…

[[{"value":"From family tree to jail cell? A hacker is alleged to have exploited information on genealogy websites to steal millions from public companies. Meanwhile, Kaspersky's US customers are wondering -…

 Governor Newsom has vetoed the state’s AI safety bill. I have mixed feelings about the bill. There’s a lot to like about it, and I want governments to regulate in…

[[{"value":"In episode 18 of "The AI Fix" our hosts discover that OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode is too emotional for Europeans, a listener writes a Viking saga about LinkedIn, ChatGPT is…

 This vulnerability hacks a feature that allows ChatGPT to have long-term memory, where it uses information from past conversations to inform future conversations with that same user. A researcher found…

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to…

[[{"value":"A London-based man is facing extradition to the United States after allegedly masterminding a scheme to hack public companies prior to their earnings announcements and use the secrets he uncovered…

 For years now, AI has undermined the public’s ability to trust what it sees, hears, and reads. The Republican National Committee released a provocative ad offering an “AI-generated look into…

 Fishermen are catching more squid as other fish are depleted. Blog moderation policy. Read More