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How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.
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3 years, 1 month ago
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
Chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks. Security researchers say the holes can be plug…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
Posts praising the Wagner Group boss following his death in a mysterious plane crash last month indicate he was still in control of his "troll farm,"…
3 years, 1 month ago
How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe
If you want the highest possible level of protection, this is it.
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3 years, 1 month ago
Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company …
3 years, 1 month ago
Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
Trimming profits, delaying launches, begging friends. Companies are going to extreme lengths to make do with shortages of GPUs, the chips at the hear…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message
A ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon.
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3 years, 1 month ago
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.
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3 years, 1 month ago
The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System
The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadc…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues…
3 years, 1 month ago