Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
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Tag: Security
The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the president of […]
What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare
Then there’s the matter of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), the Army’s futuristic “smart” goggles. Currently based on a ruggedized version […]
This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the […]
Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals
In December of 2023, for instance, Anonymous Sudan took OpenAI’s ChatGPT offline with a sustained series of DDoS attacks in response to […]
This AI Tool Helped Convict People of Murder. Then Someone Took a Closer Look
In 2017, then 9-year-old Kayla Unbehaun was abducted. For years, the South Elgin, Illinois police department searched for Unbehaun and her noncustodial […]
Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram
Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, says most major technology platforms now have policies prohibiting […]
The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
The password-killing tech known as “passkeys” have proliferated over the past two years, developed by the tech industry association known as the […]
The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters
The Internet Archive is under attack. On top of multiple extinction-threatening lawsuits against the organization that created and maintains the Wayback Machine, […]
Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime […]