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Weekly Cybersecurity Update: Recent Cyber Attacks, Vulnerabilities, and Data Breaches
Welcome to this week’s Cybersecurity Newsletter, where we bring you the latest updates and key insights from the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity. In today’s fast-paced digital environment, staying informed is crucial, and our goal is to provide you with the most relevant information to navigate these challenges effectively.
Waymo Pauses Service in Downtown LA Neighborhood Where They’re Getting Lit on Fire
Waymo told 404 Media that it is still operating in Los Angeles after several of its driverless cars were lit on fire during anti-ICE protests over the weekend, but that it has temporarily disabled the cars’ ability to drive into downtown Los Angeles, where the protests are happening. A company spokesperson said it is working…
Podcast: DOGE’s Website, Hacked
This week we start with Jason’s story about anyone being able to push updates to DOGE.gov website. Then we talk about other stories with the DEI.gov and Waste.gov sites. After the break, Sam tells us all about some lawyers who get caught using AI in a case. In the subscribers-only section, we chat about a…
Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments’
The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all of its data because he has come to believe that its existence is dangerous with “a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments” in the United States and elsewhere. “The largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical…
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
Spotify is publishing new, AI-generated songs on the official pages of artists who died years ago without the permission of their estates or record labels. According to his official Spotify page, Blaze Foley, a country music singer-songwriter who was murdered in 1989, released a new song called “Together” last week. The song, which features a…
How Palo Alto Networks Open API Advances Quantum Security
Palo Alto Networks develops quantum random number generation techniques to protect against quantum-based threats and partners with six quantum tech firms
Italian startup Exein to supply cybersecurity for chips to MediaTek
Italian tech startup Exein has agreed with Taiwan’s MediaTek to provide cybersecurity systems to be embedded on the chipmaker’s Genio platform, Exein said on Wednesday. The deal will provide security features to billions of chips using the system worldwide in industries including mobile, home, automotive and healthcare, Exein said in a statement. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT…
Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get ‘Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid’
Content warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual harassment. Judd Stone, the former Solicitor General of Texas resigned from his position in 2023 following sexual harassment complaints from colleagues in which he allegedly discussed “a disturbing sexual fantasy [he] had about me being violently anally raped by a cylindrical asteroid in front of my wife…
Killer Whales Make Their Own Tools, Scientists Discover
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here’s some of the most intriguing studies I came across this week: We’ll lead with a nostalgic trip down memory lane—so far down the lane, in fact, that we’ll end up in the Sun’s infancy 4.6 billion years ago. Most of us didn’t have to deal with supernovas exploding in…