A week in security (April 3 – 9)

Categories: News

Tags: TikTok

Tags: Super FabriXss

Tags: Twitter

Tags: macOS malware

Tags: ransomware

Tags: 2023 State of Malware

Tags: Western Digital

Tags: Android

Tags: endpoint security

Tags: ChatGPT

Tags: K-12

Tags: IoT

Tags: Facebook

Tags: targeted advertising

Tags: Google

Tags: data theft

Tags: e-file

Tags: tax

Tags: Uber breach

The most interesting security related news from the week of April 3 – 9.

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Tech bigwigs: Hit the brakes on AI rollouts

More than 1,100 technology luminaries, leaders, and scientists have issued a warning against labs performing large-scale experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT, saying the technology poses a grave threat to humanity.

In an open letter published by Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks to humanity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined other signatories in agreeing AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs.”

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Update Android now! Google patches three important vulnerabilities

Categories: Android

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Google

Tags: Android

Tags: update

Tags: CVE-2023-21085

Tags: CVE-2023-21096

Tags: CVE-2022-38181

Tags: Use-after-free

Tags: input validation

Google has released an Android update that fixes two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, and one vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild.

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Smart home assistants at risk from “NUIT” ultrasound attack

Categories: News

Tags: ultrasound

Tags: NUIT

Tags: speakers

Tags: microphone

Tags: device

Tags: IoT

Tags: assistant

Tags: alexa

Tags: siri

Tags: google

Tags: silent

We take a look at research for an IoT attack called NUIT, capable of hijacking voice assistants via ultrasonic attack.

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Tech big wigs: Hit the brakes on AI rollouts

More than 1,100 technology luminaries, leaders and scientists have issued a warning against labs performing large-scale experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT, saying the technology poses a grave threat to humanity.

In an open letter published by The Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization that aims is to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks to humanity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and MIT Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark joined other signatories in saying AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs.”

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A week in security (March 20 – 26)

Categories: News

Tags: potentially unwanted programs

Tags: PUP

Tags: ViLE

Tags: Google

Tags: Magecart

Tags: skimmer

Tags: skimming

Tags: NBA

Tags: Google Pixel crop

Tags: Kritec Magecart

Tags: fake IRS tax mail

Tags: Emotet

Tags: BreachForums

Tags: Bitcoin ATM

Tags: Bitcoin

Tags: USB bomb

Tags: USB

Tags: ChatGPT

The most interesting security related news from the week of March 20 – 26.

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Google Pixel: Cropped or edited images can be recovered

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Google

Tags: Pixel

Tags: Markup

Tags: CVE-2023-21036

Tags: recover

Tags: PNG

Tags: truncated

A vulnerability in the Markup tool that comes pre-installed on Pixel phones allows anyone with access to the edited image to view parts of the original.

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