Cisco Cyber Threat Trends Report
Cisco resolves 715 billion daily DNS requests. Stay ahead of emerging online security threats with our cutting-edge cybersecurity report.
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Behind the Blog: Resisting Demoralization
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 history repeating itself and Meta’s relationship with links. JOSEPH: I wanted to add a little bit from behind the scenes of this piece: Man Charged for Wiping…
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…
Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years
Many trains in the U.S. are vulnerable to a hack that can remotely lock a train’s brakes, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the researcher who discovered the vulnerability. The railroad industry has known about the vulnerability for more than a decade but only recently began to fix it. Independent…
The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2024
2024 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities. Below are fourteen of what BleepingComputer believes are the most impactful cybersecurity stories of 2024. […]
Stock market today: Nasdaq, S&P 500 chip away at losses after DeepSeek-inspired tech rout
Investors also assessed a return to a tougher tone on tariffs from President Donald Trump, ahead of the start of a Federal Reserve meeting
AI Darwin Awards Show AI’s Biggest Problem Is Human
The AI Darwin Awards are here to catalog the damage that happens when humanity’s hubris meets AI’s incompetence. The simple website contains a list of the dumbest AI disasters from the past year and calls for readers to nominate more. “Join our mission to document AI misadventure for educational purposes,” it said. “Remember: today’s catastrophically…
Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely
A bill introduced by Michigan lawmakers last week would ban pornography, ASMR, depictions of transgender people, and VPNs for anyone using the internet in the state. House Bill 4938, called the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act,” would prohibit distribution of “certain material on the internet that corrupts the public morals,” the bill states. It was…
People Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds
A new study from the Pew Research Center asked Americans about their feelings toward datecenters and it’s not positive. Pew published the study the day after Sen. Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on the construction of datacenters in the United States amid mounting public concern around the building’s impacts on local communities. Pew surveyed…