E.U. Sanctions 3 Russian Nationals for Cyber Attacks Targeting Estonia’s Key Ministries
EU sanctions three GRU officers for cyber attacks stealing classified data from Estonia’s ministries, compromising national security and thousands of
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Chinese Livestreaming ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts
This article was produced with support from WIRED. The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard, like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office…
Apple CPU Flaw May Let Hackers Steal Your Data: 8 Ways To Stay Safe
Hackers can exploit a flaw in Apple CPUs to steal your private data through your browser. Find out how this attack works and the best ways to protect yourself now.
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Hugging Face, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used platforms for sharing AI tools and resources, is hosting over 5,000 AI image generation models that are designed to recreate the likeness of real people. These models were all previously hosted on Civitai, an AI model sharing platform 404…
Battling Ransomware: How Healthcare Organizations Can Strengthen Cybersecurity to Protect Patient Data
Recognizing its vulnerability to cybercrime, the healthcare industry continues to prioritize cybersecurity. Here are some areas where organizations should be focusing their efforts.
Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), a data broker owned by the country’s major airlines which sells travellers’ detailed flight records in bulk to the government, only just registered as a data broker with the state of California, which is a legal requirement, despite selling such data for years, according to records maintained by the California…
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook’s Censorship
In early December I got the kind of tip we’ve been getting a lot over the past year. A reader had noticed a post from someone on Reddit complaining about a very graphic sexual ad appearing in their Instagram Reels. I’ve seen a lot of ads for scams or shady dating sites recently, and some…
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who don’t encounter an AI summary. To be precise, only 1 percent of users who…
Sophos Firewall v21.5: Entra ID SSO for Sophos Connect
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5.
OpenAI and other tech titans worked on Stargate deal months before Trump won
Such announcements aren’t without political risks, as OpenAI learned when Trump adviser Elon Musk criticized the deal on the social network he owns.