US National Security Advisor Not So Good At Personal Security In light of “Signalgate”, reporters are looking for more breaches of security at the upper echelon of the president’s team. All of this is unclassified, but still sensitive. This includes National Security Advisor Waltz’s Venmo friend list (he has 328 friends), mobile phone numbers, email […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers replaced the NYU homepage with charts and links to large student datasets. The hacker CLAIMED he redacted personal data but a security expert said “not really”. The charts linked to four different databases that includes personal information on applicants to NYU. The security expert said the hacker did not redact the information correctly and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last year California governor Newsom vetoed an AI safety bill that big tech donors didn’t like. That bill, SB 1047, would have required big tech to do safety testing of their AI models. Newsom said it would hurt innovation. Now another fight is happening. Assembly bill 412 would require generative AI developers to meticulously document […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Humans **ARE** The Weak Link in Security North Korean hackers are tricking their victims into downloading a supposed patch for Zoom by convincing them that they have a meeting with an important venture capitalist and the reason you can’t hear him is a Zoom bug that they have a fix for. Of course, the fix […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday the president signed an EO planning a new National Resilience Strategy letting the states figure out how to protect themselves. This includes both cyber disasters and other physical disasters. The order says that state and local governments AND INDIVIDUALS play a “more active and significant role” in national resilience and preparedness. This comes after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Russians, in particular Pravda, which is Russian for truth, has created another interesting disinformation attack. The Russians figured out years ago that most Americans are not critical thinkers and if they can figure out a way to present fake information long enough, many people will believe it. For the last several election cycles, their […]
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