Taiwan NSB Alerts Public on Data Risks from Douyin, Weibo, and RedNote Over China Ties

Taiwan's National Security Bureau NSB has warned that China-developed applications like RedNote aka Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Douyin, WeChat, and Baidu Cloud pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data transfer to China. The alert comes following an inspection of these apps carried ou...

ME: Trigger Element Combination Backdoor Attack on Copyright Infringement

The capability of generative diffusion models DMs like Stable Diffusion SD in replicating training data could be taken advantage of by attackers to launch the Copyright Infringement Attack, with duplicated poisoned image-text pairs. SilentBadDiffusion SBD is a method proposed recently, which shew...

Getty Images Sues Stability AI for Using Its Photos to Train AI Models

Getty Images accuses Stability AI of illegally using its content to train AI models in a high-stakes London…...

SAGE: Exploring the Boundaries of Unsafe Concept Domain with Semantic-Augment Erasing

Diffusion models DMs have achieved significant progress in text-to-image generation. However, the inevitable inclusion of sensitive information during pre-training poses safety risks, such as unsafe content generation and copyright infringement. Concept erasing finetunes weights to unlearn...

OpenAI forced to preserve ChatGPT chats

OpenAI has protested a court order that forces it to retain its users' conversations. The creator of the ChatGPT AI model objected to the order, which is part of a copyright infringement case against it by The New York Times and other publishers. The news organizations argued that ChatGPT was...

SteelFox and Rhadamanthys Malware Use Copyright Scams, Driver Exploits to Target Victims

An ongoing phishing campaign is employing copyright infringement-related themes to trick victims into downloading a newer version of the Rhadamanthys information stealer since July 2024. Cybersecurity firm Check Point is tracking the large-scale campaign under the name CopyRhightadamantys. Target...

Meta's 'Pay or Consent' Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta's decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union E.U. has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc's competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the...

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes...

The New York Times vs. OpenAI: A Turning Point for Web Scraping?

In a recent blog, we covered the blurry lines of legality surrounding web scraping and how the advent of artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs further complicates the matter. Shortly after publishing the blog, a significant legal development began unfolding: The New York Times...

Film companies lose battle to unmask Reddit users

An interesting case marking the limits of what data big business can expect to dig up has concluded its day or to be more accurate, many days in court. Ars Technica reports that film companies have lost their battle to make social site Reddit identify anonymous users discussing piracy. No fewer...

Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014

When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the companys then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals...

Google takes CryptBot to the wood shed

Google is in the midst of a legal campaign designed to take down the creators of a very persistent piece of malware called CryptBot. This malware, which Google claims compromised roughly 670k computers, set about infecting users of the Chrome browser. Unfortunately for the malware campaign...

Two Supreme Court cases could change the Internet as we know it

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law thats been the foundation of the way we have used the Internet for decades. The court will be handling a few cases that at first glance are about online platforms' liability for hosting accounts from foreign terrorists. But at a deeper...

Sharing Netflix, Disney+, other passwords is illegal, according to new guidance

The Intellectual Property Office IPO, the UK government body overseeing intellectual property rights in the UK, has quietly released new guidance on piracy and online counterfeit goods. This campaign is a joint effort between IPO and Meta, Facebooks parent company. The general issue on piracy is...

Can Business Cybersecurity Protection Outlay Offset Cybercrime Insurance?

What is cybercrime insurance? Business cybersecurity protection cybercrime insurance safeguards organizations from any financial losses relating to damage to or loss of information from, networks and IT systems. This may include reputation loss, the cost of business interruption, infringement of...

WordPress plugin Hot Linked Image Cacher 跨站请求伪造漏洞

WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in the WordPress plugin Hot Linked Image Cacher version 1.16 and prior versions, which stems fro...

Hollywood’s Fight Against VPNs Turns Ugly

Beyond accusations of rampant user copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of more serious illegal activity...

Cloudflare Isn't Liable for Sites That Hawk Counterfeits

A federal judge ruled that the content-delivery service doesn't "contribute" to copyright infringement...

Poker player jailed for illegal video streaming, downloading websites

By Deeba Ahmed Talon White has received 12 months of prison sentence after being involved in the illegal streaming of copyright-protected TV shows and movies. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Poker player jailed for illegal video streaming, downloading websites...

Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: "Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising." From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements opaque...