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Lawsuit Against Automatic License Plate Reader May Proceed, Judge Says

Privacy is a nice concept but it doesn’t seem to exist anymore. A federal judge ruled this week that a lawsuit against Norfolk, Virginia can move forward. The city currently has 172 license plate readers and plans to add 65 more cameras around the city. The cameras record all vehicles within 150 feet of any […]

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4 is the Randomest Number Ever (Sort Of)

Google researchers have figured out how to break AMD’s processor security allowing them to load any processor microcode of their choosing. They demonstrated this by loading microcode that had the chip produce the number 4 every time when asked for a random number. In theory, only AMD (for their chips) or Intel (for theirs) should […]

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Hey Google (AI), Create Me Some Malware. (Please)

Google has revealed that just in the past year dozens of hacking groups in two dozen countries have been detected using Google’s AI agent Gemini to write malware, look for vulnerabilities and target organizations for attack. Among other nefarious tasks. Hackers have used regular Google for years to profile organizations, so that is not really […]

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Security News Bites for January 31, 2025

Court Rules FISA 702 Surveillance of US Resident Unconstitutional It will be interesting to see if this holds up under appeal. A court in NY ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is not a free pass when it comes to surveilling US residents. If this holds, this is a huge win to reduce […]

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Software has Bugs and AI is Software – Just at a Different Scale

New reports are coming out about how to jailbreak Microsoft’s GitHub AI assistant to get it to do, well, bad things. Not a big surprise, of course. Researchers have discovered two new ways to manipulate GitHub’s artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Copilot, enabling the ability to bypass security restrictions and subscription fees, train malicious models, […]

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Half of State Privacy Laws Don’t Protect Consumer Privacy

Well that is an alarming headline. But not a big surprise when many state privacy laws have been written by lobbyists and herded through passage by legislators on their payroll. Well, technically, they would call them campaign contributions but you get the idea. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the US Public Interest Research Group […]

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