03 Mar

UK watchdog investigates TikTok and Reddit over child data privacy concerns

The UK’s data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users. Feature

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03 Mar

Martin Rees: Post-human intelligence – a cosmic perspective | Starmus highlights

WeLiveScience Take a moment to think beyond our current capabilities and consider what might come next in the grand story of evolution Tomáš Foltýn 03

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03 Mar

Governments can’t seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Opinion With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands

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03 Mar

US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia

Infosec In Brief US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia, as the USA’s Cybersecurity and

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02 Mar

C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from ‘serious attacks’

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies

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28 Feb

Ransomware criminals love CISA’s KEV list – and that’s a bug, not a feature

Fresh research suggests attackers are actively monitoring databases of vulnerabilities that are known to be useful in carrying out ransomware attacks. GreyNoise’s annual Mass Internet

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28 Feb

Threat Report H2 2024: Infostealer shakeup, new attack vector for mobile, and Nomani

ESET Research Big shifts in the infostealer scene, novel attack vector against iOS and Android, and a massive surge in investment scams on social media

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28 Feb

Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching ‘Azure Abuse Enterprise’ operators

Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in

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28 Feb

Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’

The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump’s call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information

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28 Feb

Feds: Army soldier linked to AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’

The US Army soldier believed to have compromised AT&T and bragged about getting his hands on President Trump’s call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen

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27 Feb

Feds: Army soldier accused of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’

The US Army soldier accused of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump’s call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information

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27 Feb

FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary

The FBI has officially accused North Korea’s Lazarus Group of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from crypto-exchange Bybit earlier this month, and asked for help

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27 Feb

Bernhard Schölkopf: Is AI intelligent? | Starmus highlights

WeLiveScience With AI’s pattern recognition capabilities well-established, Mr. Schölkopf’s talk shifts the focus to a pressing question: what will be the next great leap for

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27 Feb

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI’s GPT-4o

Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively impact the AI’s output across a range

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27 Feb

Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China’s Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time

Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for years. The eight-strong team

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26 Feb

Bybit declares war on North Korea’s Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, just days after suspected North Korean operatives stole $1.5 billion in Ethereum from it, has launched a bounty program to help recover

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26 Feb

With millions upon millions of victims, scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware laid bare

A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being added to

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26 Feb

Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)

It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said it’ll

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