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ChatGPT Spit Out Sensitive Data When Told to Repeat ‘Poem’ Forever
Plus: A major ransomware crackdown, the arrest of Ukraine’s cybersecurity chief, and a hack-for-hire entrepreneur charged with attempted murder...
Police Use of Face Recognition Is Sweeping the UK
Face recognition technology has been controversial for years. Cops in the UK are drastically increasing the amount they use it...
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time...
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plugged—sort of...
The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests
The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners...
Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram
Plus: A fitness app may have leaked the location of a murdered submarine captain, the privacy risks of filing taxes online, and how Facebook data was used in an abortion trial...
LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
To beat back fake accounts, the professional social network is rolling out new tools to prove you work where you say you do and are who you say you are...
Mullvad VPN and Tor Project Create New Privacy-Focused Mullvad Browser
Mullvad Browser, a collaboration between the nonprofit and Mullvad VPN, offers an anti-tracking browser designed to be used with a VPN...
Microsoft's ‘Security Copilot’ Sics ChatGPT on Security Breaches
The new tool aims to deliver the network insights and coordination that “AI” security systems have long promised...
You Can’t Trust App Developers’ Privacy Claims on Google Play
Mozilla researchers found that apps often provide inaccurate data use disclosures, giving people “a false sense of security.”...
LastPass Data Breach: It’s Time to Ditch This Password Manager
The password manager’s most recent data breach is so concerning, users need to take immediate steps to protect themselves...
What Is Flipper Zero? The Hacker Tool Going Viral on TikTok, Explained
Don’t be fooled by its fun name and Tamagotchi-like interface—this do-everything gadget is trouble waiting to happen and a whole lot more...
The Low Threshold for Face Recognition in New Delhi
Police in India's capital say they only require an 80 percent accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates...
Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Can Crash Old Hard Drives
Plus: The Twilio hack snags a reporter, a new tool to check for spyware, and the Canadian weed pipeline gets hit by a cyberattack...
The US Offers a $10M Bounty for Intel on Conti Ransomware Gang
The State Department organization has called for people to share details about five key members of the hacking group...
This Hacktivist Site Lets You Prank Call Russian Officials
To protest the war in Ukraine, WasteRussianTime.today auto-dials Russian government officials, connects them to each other, and lets you listen in to their confusion...
The Case for War Crimes Charges Against Russia’s Sandworm Hackers
A group of human rights lawyers and investigators has called on the Hague to bring the first-ever “cyber war crimes” charges against Russia’s most dangerous hackers...
A Major Internet Backbone Company Cuts Off Russia
Plus: A ransomware gang leak, an Nvidia hack, and more of the week's top security news...
The Biggest Deepfake Abuse Site Is Growing in Disturbing Ways
A referral program and partner sites have spurred the spread of invasive, AI-generated “nude” images...
The Pixel 6 Chip’s Best Upgrade Isn’t Speed. It’s Security
Google’s new flagship smartphone is its most secure yet, thanks to a little vertical integration...
Help Might Finally Be on the Way to Fight SIM-Swap Attacks
Plus: A cybersecurity CEO arrest, an Apple Pay hack, and more of the week's top security news...
Why James Bond Doesn’t Use an iPhone
The fictional superspy wields Nokia devices in 'No Time To Die.' It’s an odd choice, but Apple's smartphones aren’t ideal, either...
A 5G Shortcut Leaves Phones Exposed to Stingray Surveillance
You may not have the full story about what network you're on—and how well you're protected...
DuckDuckGo’s Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible
The company best known for its search engine is launching a new set of tools aimed at creating an “easy button” for protecting your data online...
Hackers Tied to Russia's GRU Targeted the US Grid for Years
A Sandworm-adjacent group has successfully breached US critical infrastructure a handful of times, according to new findings from the security firm Dragos...
Cops Disrupt Emotet, the Internet's ‘Most Dangerous Malware’
A global operation has taken down the notorious botnet in a blow to cybercriminals worldwide...
The Christchurch Shooter and YouTube’s Radicalization Trap
The platform has gotten better about stamping out extremist content. But researchers say its policies and algorithms are still too opaque...
A Hacker Is Threatening to Leak Patients' Therapy Notes
An extortionist has turned a breach of Finland's Vastaamo mental health services provider into a nightmare for victims...
A Cut Cable Knocked Out Virginia’s Voter Registration Site
Plus: Barnes and Noble got hacked, Zoom adds real end-to-end encryption, and more of the week’s top security news...
A China-Linked Group Repurposed Hacking Team’s Stealthy Spyware
The tool attacks a device’s UEFI firmware—which makes it especially hard to detect and destroy...
Inside the Twitter Hack—and What Happened Next
On July 15, a massive Twitter hack rocked the inside and out. On Election Day, that's not an option...
How We’ll Know the Election Wasn’t Rigged
Whether you’re casting a ballot in person or by mail, there’s plenty to worry about. Mass voter fraud shouldn’t be on the list...
Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers
Researchers found troubling bugs in open-source libraries used by financial institutions...
How to Spot—and Avoid—Dark Patterns on the Web
You've seen them before: the UX ploys designed to trick you into spending money, or make it nearly impossible to unsubscribe. Here's what to look out for...
9 Tips to Keep Your Cloud Storage Safe and Secure
Make sure that your Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive data is protected—while still being easy for you to access...
Microsoft Warns of a 17-Year-Old ‘Wormable’ Bug
The SigRed vulnerability exists in Windows DNS, used by practically every small and medium-sized organization in the world...
Microsoft Halts a Global Fraud Campaign That Targeted CEOs
A sophisticated scheme was designed to trick businesses in more than 60 countries into wiring large sums of money to attackers...
Schools Already Struggled With Cybersecurity. Then Came Covid-19
A lack of dedicated funding and resources made it hard to keep data secure—and that was before classes moved almost entirely online...
An Embattled Group of Leakers Picks Up the WikiLeaks Mantle
After releasing over a million hacked law enforcement files, DDoSecrets got banned from Twitter. But it has no plans to slow down...
Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
The videoconferencing platform had previously said that only paid accounts would get the feature—a move privacy advocates roundly decried...
Facebook 'Manage Activity' Is a Long Overdue Privacy Feature
The new Manage Activity feature will let you archive and bulk delete posts for the first time...
Trump's New Intelligence Chief Spells Trouble
John Ratcliffe is the least-qualified director of national intelligence in history—and a staunch partisan as well...
A Vital Hack Could Turn Medical Devices Into Ventilators
Hundreds of thousands of lower-grade breathing devices are going unused because manufacturers say they can’t perform life-saving functions. But a new patch might change that...
After the Iowa Caucus Meltdown, New Hampshire Says It’s Ready
The nation’s first primary is proudly low-tech, but it'll take more than paper ballots to defuse the disinformation threat...
Did Donald Trump and Iran Use Twitter to Prevent a War?
Tweets from US president Donald Trump and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif Tuesday offered a fascinating glimpse at how world leaders can communicate more quickly and directly than ever in times of crisis...
Facebook Revamps Its Privacy Checkup Feature in Time for CES
Forget Portal. This year, Facebook is marketing itself as a privacy crusader...
Hackers Can Tell What Netflix 'Bandersnatch' Choices You Make
Researchers have shown that even though Netflix encrypts its traffic, hackers can figure out your interactive movie choices...
Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree...
How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras
Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop...