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Personal AI Assistants and Privacy
Microsoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant: At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve their past activities on their PC. To make it work, Recall records everything users do on their PC,…
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GitHub Fixes Maximum Severity Flaw in Enterprise Server
A newly patched GitHub Enterprise Server bug has a CVSS score of 10 Read More
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PSNI Faces £750,000 Data Breach Fine After Spreadsheet Leak
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has been fined £750K following a serious data breach last year Read More
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Smashing Security podcast #373: iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice
iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there’s a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Anna Brading of Malwarebytes. Plus!…
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Report Reveals 341% Rise in Advanced Phishing Attacks
This data comes from SlashNext’s mid-year State of Phishing 2024 report Read More
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UserPro Plugin Vulnerability Allows Account Takeover
The plugin is used by over 20,000 sites and enables users to create customizable community websites Read More
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Chinese Hackers Rely on Covert Proxy Networks to Evade Detection
Volt Typhoon and other Chinese cyber espionage actors are relying on operational relay box (ORB) networks, Mandiant has observed Read More
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23-year-old alleged founder of dark web Incognito Market arrested after FBI tracks cryptocurrency payments
The United States Department of Justice has dealt a blow to dark web drug traffickers by arresting a man alleged to operate the dark web drugs marketplace Incognito Market. According to a DOJ press release, the alleged operator of a darknet platform sold over $100 million worth of narcotics worldwide. Read more in my article…
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What to Do If Your Email Is Hacked
I think I could count on my hand the people I know who have NOT had their email hacked. Maybe they found a four-leaf clover when they were kids! Email hacking is one of the very unfortunate downsides of living in our connected, digital world. And it usually occurs as a result of a data…
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Unredacting Pixelated Text
Experiments in unredacting text that has been pixelated. Read More