This Security Threat Hides In Plain Sight—The You Can’t See Me Hack
Email hackers have found ways to hide in plain sight, invisible to your security defenses, while they attack. Here’s what you need to know and do.
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New Ransomware Attacking VMware ESXi Hosts Via SSH Tunneling
New ransomware strains are quietly infiltrating VMware ESXi hosts by setting up SSH tunnels and concealing malicious traffic within legitimate activity.
The Real Future of AI Is Ordering Mid Chicken at Bojangles
Yesterday I ordered my lunch from an AI operating a drive-thru. It was fine. Banal. Boring even. A new experience that I think will become routine in the future. The AI drive-thru operator isn’t cutting edge tech deployed in an upscale market to win over high value consumers. I live at the edge of a…
Podcast: AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers
This week, we talk about how ‘Boring History’ AI slop is taking over YouTube and making it harder to discover content that humans spend months researching, filming, and editing. Then we talk about how Meta has totally given up on content moderation. In the bonus segment, we discuss the ‘AI Darwin Awards,’ which is, uhh,…
Underground Facial Recognition Tool Unmasks Camgirls
An underground site uses facial recognition to reveal the site a camgirl streams on, potentially letting someone take a woman’s photo from social media, then use the site to out their sex work. The site presents a serious privacy risk to sex workers, some who may not want stalkers, harassers, or employers to discover their…
ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring developing a pair of smart glasses that would “supplement” the agency’s facial recognition Mobile Fortify application, which lets officers scan someone’s face to verify their citizenship, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. Another person who attended a conference where a senior ICE official spoke about…
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
A few years ago, while I was covering the rise of AI slop on Facebook, I asked my friends and family if they were getting AI spam fed into their timelines and if they could send me examples. A handful of them responded, sending me obviously AI-generated science fiction scenescapes, shrimp Jesus, and forlorn, starving…
People Are Selling Kills of Marathon’s Hardest Boss on eBay
The Complier is the hardest boss to reach in the extraction shooter Marathon. To even have the chance to fight it, you need to have cleared six vaults—increasingly elaborate puzzle rooms—in the Cryo Archive, Marathon’s end game map. To even get the chance to enter each of those vaults, you need to obtain a key…
World Economic Forum 2025: Navigating Cybersecurity in an Era of Complexity
What was the cyber outlook at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this past week? From President Trump’s address to new white papers, here’s your roundup.
Behind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple Store
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very bad ad. EMANUEL: This week we experimented with the podcast format a little bit. We had just finished recording our…