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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by…
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI…
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Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action
Hugging Face, a platform that hosts AI models and datasets, said its internal datasets and service credentials were compromised in…
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Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research
“Your data is private. Period,” says period tracker Stardust on its website. As new research by Mozilla discovered, some users…
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Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II
On Tuesday, Microsoft patched a historic record number of security bugs across its product lines, in large part due to…
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Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI
On Friday, Apple dropped the bombshell news it was suing OpenAI over the alleged theft of trade secrets, claiming that…
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US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should handle a…
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Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies
Florida man Angelo Martino has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for conspiring with hackers to deploy…
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Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
The U.S. Army has reportedly fixed two of its websites that had been defaced to display pro-Kurdish messages and to…
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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware
Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an…
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US government says it got hacked — again
The Department of Homeland Security is said to be investigating a breach of its platform, which federal, state, and local…
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In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of “geofence” search warrants, in a major legal ruling…
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