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Is AI Good for Democracy?
Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country, and military applications of AI. Someday, they believe, we might see advancements in AI tip the scales in a...
From the Shadows to the Headlines: A Decade of State-Sponsored Cyber Leaks
From the Shadows to the Headlines: A Decade of State-Sponsored Cyber Leaks By Ryan Slaney and Emma DeCarli · January 20, 2026 Executive summary The December 2, 2025, publication of a massive leak revealing the inner workings of the IRGC-linked Department 40 a.k.a. APT35, Charming Kitten, and Fres...
AI tool GeoSpy analyzes images and identifies locations in seconds
It's just become even more important to be conscious about the pictures we post online. GeoSpy is an Artificial Intelligence AI supported tool that can derive a person’s location by analyzing features in a photo like vegetation, buildings, and other landmarks. And it can do so in seconds based on...
Indian Firm Linked to Fake DMCA Notices Silencing Journalists
Is critical journalism under attack? A recent exposé reveals a disturbing trend: Companies, in this case, an Indian…...
New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for their journalistic work on the Snowden files, retired from The Guardian in 2018. He...
Threat Source newsletter (March 23, 2023) — Meta is threatening to ban news sharing in Canada. Good.
Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. After asking ChatGPT to write the newsletter for me two weeks ago, I was tempted to have Googles Bard do the same, but I resisted making this the newsletters new gimmick. Instead, I wanted to write about another tech giant -- Meta. Th...
A multidimensional approach to journalism security
The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Runa Sandvik, Former...
A multidimensional approach to journalism security
The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Runa Sandvik, Former...
Telling stories securely, with Runa Sandvik: Lock and Code S03E07
In 2017, a former NSA contractor named Reality Winner was arrested for allegedly leaking an internal report to the online news outlet The Intercept. To verify the report itself, a journalist for The Intercept sent an image of the report to the NSA, but upon further inspection, it was revealed tha...
journalism.co.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2143070
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Cyberpunk 2077 Hacked Data Circulating Online
New data from the February hack of CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher series, is circulating online. Earlier this year, the company suffered a ransomware attack in which a cyberattack group believed by some to be the HelloKitty gang “gained...
A week in security (October 12 – October 18)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at journalism’s role in cybersecurity on our Lock and Code podcast, gave tips for safer shopping on Amazon Prime day, and discussed an APT attack springing into life as Academia returned to the real and virtual campus environment. We also dug into potenti...
Lock and Code S1Ep17: Journalism’s role in cybersecurity with Alfred Ng and Seth Rosenblatt
Most everything about cybersecurity—the threats, the vulnerabilities, the breaches and the blunders—doesnt happen in a vacuum. And the public doesn’t learn about those things because threat actors advertise their exploits, or because companies trumpet their lackluster data security practices. No,...
The Publishing Industry -- Where to Now?
Many of us have spent far more time at home looking at screens to keep up to date with the world than would have seemed possible at the start of the year. In the UK, as with many other countries, the lockdown rules and pandemic response were changing on a near-daily basis, and the 5 PM government...
Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2 Billion
An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico's top tourist destinations disrupted their highly profitable business, which raked in an estimated $1.2...
The Latest Julian Assange Indictment Is an Assault on Press Freedom
By invoking the Espionage Act against Julian Assange, the Justice Department will effectively put national security journalism on trial...
New Film Shows How Bellingcat Cracks the Web's Toughest Cases
Truth in a Post Truth World takes a closer look at a team of remarkably resourceful investigative journalists...
Activist Leaks 11,000 Private Messages from WikiLeaks' Twitter Chats
An activist has just leaked thousands of private messages of an organization that's been known to publishing others' secrets. More than 11,000 direct messages from a Twitter group used by WikiLeaks and around 10 close supporters have been posted online by journalist and activist Emma Best, exposi...
Journalist Matthew Keys gets 2-Year Prison term for helping Anonymous Hackers
Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys, who was convicted last year of helping the Anonymous group of hackers, has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for computer hacking charges. Keys was found guilty last year in October of giving Anonymous login credentials that allowed the group to deface...
journalism.indiana.edu XSS vulnerability
Vulnerable URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/webspace/kellyjd/J418su13/photos/party/viewer.swf?xmlDataPath=http://45.55.162.179/vuln.xml Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa...