Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The alleged SEC X account hacker gets charged, Kroger wriggles out of a face recognition scandal, and Microsoft deals with missing customer security logs.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user’s personal information to an attacker.
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Credit to Author: Todd Feathers| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid.
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Credit to Author: Todd Feathers| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000
“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: New details emerge in the National Public Data breach, Discord gets blocked in Russia and Turkey over alleged illegal activity on the platform, and more.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:39:49 +0000
Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
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