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 […]
Tag: Security
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 […]
A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines
The newly discovered toolkit is composed of many different building blocks, written in multiple languages and capabilities. The overall goal appears to […]
Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users
An illicit JavaScript pop-up on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours […]
69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with an IRS […]
What Google’s U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy
The apparent death of cookies also won’t matter much to Google, which has a ton of data from multiple services in addition […]
Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
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