DragonForce actors target SimpleHelp vulnerabilities to attack MSP, customers
Ransomware actor exploited RMM to access multiple organizations; Sophos EDR blocked encryption on customer’s network
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The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
“Like these games you will,” the quote next to a cartoon image of Yoda says on the website starwarsweb.net. Those games include Star Wars Battlefront 2 for Xbox; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II for Xbox 360, and Star Wars the Clone Wars: Republic Heroes for Nintendo Wii. Next to that, are links to a…
Penguin Poop Helps Antarctica Stay Cool
Welcome back to the Abstract! We begin this week with some scatalogical salvation. I dare not say more. Then, swimming without a brain: It happens more often than you might think. Next, what was bigger as a baby than it is today? Hint: It’s still really big! And to close out, imagine the sights you’ll…
Behind the Blog: Feeling Wowed, Getting Cozy
This week, we discuss the benefits of spending 14 hours a day on the internet, getting cozy for AI slop, and a what a new law in Sweden means for the rest of us.
Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels
Fans reading through the romance novel Darkhollow Academy: Year 2 got a nasty surprise last week in chapter 3. In the middle of steamy scene between the book’s heroine and the dragon prince Ash there’s this: “I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with J. Bree’s style, which features more tension, gritty undertones, and raw…
Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down
Pocket, an app for saving and reading articles later, is shutting down on July 8, Mozilla announced today. The company sent an email with the subject line “Important Update: Pocket is Saying Goodbye,” around 2 p.m. EST and I immediately started wailing when I saw it. “You’ll be able to keep using the app and…
Hacker Conference HOPE Says U.S. Immigration Crackdown Caused Massive Crash in Ticket Sales
Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE), the iconic and long-running hacking conference, says far fewer people have bought tickets for the event this year as compared to last, with organizers believing it is due to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and more aggressive detainment of travellers into the U.S. “We are roughly 50 percent behind…
Sophos Firewall v21.5: Streamlined management
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5.
Why Does Google’s New Veo 3 AI Video Generator Love This Dad Joke?
On Tuesday, Google revealed the latest and best version of its AI video generator, Veo 3. It’s impressive not only in the quality of the video it produces, but also because it can generate audio that is supposed to seamlessly sync with the video. I’m probably going to test Veo 3 in the coming weeks…
Kids Say They’re Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass ‘Gorllia Tag’ Age Verification
Kids say they are using pictures of Trump, YouTuber Markiplier, and the G-Man from Half-Life to bypass newly integrated age restriction software in the VR game Gorilla Tag. Gorilla Tag is a popular game with a global reach and a young audience, which means it has to comply with complicated and contradictory laws aimed at…