This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation. Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups…
This week Matthew Gault joins us to discuss his article about Iran’s AI slop and LEGO-focused propaganda, and why the creators chose LEGO. After the break, Jason tells us all about the new automated system in baseball and the drama it’s causing. In the subscribers-only section, Sam walks us through perhaps one of the worst…
Sometimes people—especially those in the field of public relations doing a pray-and-spray campaign, but also small-time developers, the occasional delusional vibe-coder, and local dipshits—deliver messages to my inbox like a cat dropping a dead mouse on my doorstep. For the most part, I resist the bait: often, bad press is still press to these people,…
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, NPM, Axios
Sir Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing pictures of a concert in the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. Why did this happen? That’s in dispute. At…
Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided underlying personal data for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. The…
Only 5% of organizations fully trust their cybersecurity providers. Let’s do better. Categories: Products & Services, Sophos Insights Tags: Trust, Trust Center, Privacy
New Sophos survey reveals only 5% of IT leaders say they fully trust their cybersecurity vendors Categories: Products & Services, Sophos Insights Tags: Trust, Privacy, Trust Center
“We’ll have a generation of security professionals who can supervise AI but can’t function without it.” Categories: AI Research, Sophos Insights Tags: AI, AI Cybersecurity, AI RESEARCH, Generative AI, SOC
A phishing campaign targeting multiple organizations led to RMM installations – but not much else (yet). A threat actor experimenting, or an access-as-a-service attack underway? Categories: Threat Research Tags: STAC6405, infostealer, RMM, Phishing
