Will 2025 See a Rise of NHI Attacks?
The flurry of non-human identity attacks at the end of 2024 demonstrates extremely strong momentum heading into the new year. That does not bode well.
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Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can’t Legally Release His Software
An app developer has jailbroken Echelon exercise bikes to restore functionality that the company put behind a paywall last month, but copyright laws prevent him from being allowed to legally release it. Last month, Peloton competitor Echelon pushed a firmware update to its exercise equipment that forces its machines to connect to the company’s servers…
Elon Musk, Sam Altman spar over Trump’s newly announced $500 bn AI project ‘Stargate’
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman retorted to Elon Musk’s jibe at the ‘Stargate’ and said that the world’s richest person is “wrong” in his assessment of the project.
a16z Is Funding a ‘Speedrun’ to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
What if your coworkers were AI? What if AI agents, not humans, monitored security camera feeds? What if you had an AI tech recruiter to find motivated candidates, or an entirely autonomous recruiting firm? What if UPS, but AI, or finance, but DeepMind? Does that sound like absolute hell on Earth? Well, too bad, because…
American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
📄 This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work. Or send us a one time donation via our tip jar here. In February 2023, a brief national…
Week in review: 48k Fortinet firewalls open to attack, attackers “vishing” orgs via Microsoft Teams
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to
Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts
Something very strange is happening to the Apple Podcasts app. Over the last several months, I’ve found both the iOS and Mac versions of the Podcasts app will open religion, spirituality, and education podcasts with no apparent rhyme or reason. Sometimes, I unlock my machine and the podcast app has launched itself and presented one…
Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 2)
In the second of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops investigates the so-called ‘white’ (legitimate) business interests of threat actors
Bad Tenable plugin updates take down Nessus agents worldwide
Tenable says customers must manually upgrade their software to revive Nessus vulnerability scanner agents taken offline on December 31st due to buggy differential plugin updates. […]
What Does Trump’s £500 Billion Stargate Mean For The World Of AI?
Former President Trump has announced an unprecedented $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative called “The Stargate Project,” partnering with tech giants.