Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), a data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines, will shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant, according to a letter from ARC shared with 404 Media. ARC says it…

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A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On

Online survey research, a fundamental method for data collection in many scientific studies, is facing an existential threat because of large language models, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The author of the paper, associate professor of government at Dartmouth and director of the Polarization Research…

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Infostealers: The silent doorway to identity attacks — and why proactive defense matters

Credential theft isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s often the first move in a chain reaction that ends in full-scale compromise.  Beyond the dreaded password reset process, information stealers, as shown in several recent cyberattacks, can have far more consequential follow-on effects.   For many small and mid-sized organizations, a single stolen identity can lead to…

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