AI chat app leak exposes 300 million messages tied to 25 million users

An independent security researcher uncovered a major data breach affecting Chat & Ask AI, one of the most popular AI chat apps on Google Play and Apple App Store, with more than 50 million users. The researcher claims to have accessed 300 million messages from over 25 million users due to an...

Would you sext ChatGPT? (Lock and Code S06E22)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … In the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up. On October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the "restrictions" that his company previously placed on their flagship product, ChatGPT, would be removed, allowing, perhaps, for...

EUVD-2023-49449

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A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown (Lock and Code S06E03)

Today on the Lock and Code podcast … In February 2024, a 14-year-old boy from Orlando, Florida, committed suicide after confessing his love to the one figure who absorbed nearly all of his time—an AI chatbot. For months, Sewell Seltzer III had grown attached to an AI chatbot modeled after the...

Drones and the US Air Force

Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield--that is, Ukraine--and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change. The F-35A certainly remains an important platform for high-intensity conventional warfare. But the Air Force is planning to buy 1,763 of the aircraft...

CVE-2023-45130

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit aea528198b3b226e0d20cce878551fd4c0e3d5d0, at the end of a contract execution, when opcode SUICIDE marks a contract to be deleted, the software uses storage::removeprefix now renamed to storage::clearprefix to remove all storage...

Design/Logic Flaw

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit aea528198b3b226e0d20cce878551fd4c0e3d5d0, at the end of a contract execution, when opcode SUICIDE marks a contract to be deleted, the software uses storage::removeprefix now renamed to storage::clearprefix to remove all storage...

CVE-2023-45130

Frontier (Substrate’s Ethereum compatibility layer) has a CVE-2023-45130 issue where, prior to commit aea528198b3b226e0d20cce878551fd4c0e3d5d0, invoking opcode SUICIDE on a contract that has large storage can trigger a single IO call across the WebAssembly boundary to remove all storages, potenti...

CVE-2023-45130 Frontier opcode SUICIDE touches too many storage values on large contracts

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit aea528198b3b226e0d20cce878551fd4c0e3d5d0, at the end of a contract execution, when opcode SUICIDE marks a contract to be deleted, the software uses storage::removeprefix now renamed to storage::clearprefix to remove all storage...

CVE-2023-45130 Frontier opcode SUICIDE touches too many storage values on large contracts

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit aea528198b3b226e0d20cce878551fd4c0e3d5d0, at the end of a contract execution, when opcode SUICIDE marks a contract to be deleted, the software uses storage::removeprefix now renamed to storage::clearprefix to remove all storage...

CVE-2023-45130 Frontier opcode SUICIDE touches too many storage values on large contracts

Frontier is Substrate's Ethereum compatibility layer. Prior to commit aea528198b3b226e0d20cce878551fd4c0e3d5d0, at the end of a contract execution, when opcode SUICIDE marks a contract to be deleted, the software uses storage::removeprefix now renamed to storage::clearprefix to remove all storage...

Frontier Security Vulnerabilities

Frontier is an EtherCompatible layer for Substrate. It is used to run unmodified Ether Dapps. A security vulnerability exists in previous versions of Frontier aea52819, which stems from a vulnerability that allows an attacker to create contracts with a large number of stored values on a parallel...

Netflix MH370: The plane that wasn’t hacked

I’m a sucker for a good documentary, but the recent Netflix MH370: The Plane That Disappeared had me shouting at the screen. The first episode talks about the most widely accepted theory; a tragic pilot-created murder-suicide. However, the second episode goes completely off the rails, discussing ...

Removing the human: When should AI be used in emotional crisis? Lock and Code S03E09

In January, a mental health nonprofit admitted that it had used Artificial Intelligence to help talk to people in distress. Prompted first by a user's longing for personal improvement--and the difficulties involved in that journey--the AI tool generated a reply, which, with human intervention,...

Hacking Suicide

Heres a religious hack: You want to commit suicide, but its a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. So what you do is murder someone. That will get you executed, but if you confess your sins to a priest beforehand you avoid hell. Problem solved. This was actually a problem in the...

Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Jail

Controversial mogul and antivirus pioneer John McAfee on Wednesday died by suicide in a jail cell in Barcelona, hours after reports that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the U.S. McAfee was 75. He is said to have died by hanging "as his nine months in prison brought him to...

John McAfee has Died in Spanish Prison, Reports

By Waqas Reportedly, John McAfee has died of suicide hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition to the United States. According to local Spanish media, Mr. John McAfee, the founder of antivirus company McAfee has died in a prison near Barcelona, Spain. 75-year-old McAfee...

The UK Denies Assange's Extradition, Citing Suicide Risk

The ruling is based not on whether the WikiLeaks founder violated the Espionage Act, but on the implications of subjecting him to the US carceral state...

British Court Rejects U.S. Request to Extradite WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

A British court has rejected the U.S. government's request to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country on charges pertaining to illegally obtaining and sharing classified material related to national security. In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, Judge Vanessa...

Julian Assange Lays Out His Case Against US Extradition

The argument hinges in part on psychiatrists’ testimony that Assange is a high suicide risk...