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Russia Using AI and Sex to Lure Victims

One of the biggest uses of the Internet is to sell sex. Whether it is chat rooms, pictures of naked people, whatever, it is a big money maker on the Internet. The hottest subject in town these days, even hotter than crypto, is AI. So what are Russian hackers doing? They are combining sex and […]

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SF City Attorney Suing Deep Fake Web Sites

It is certainly a noble gesture, but one that is doomed to fail. The San Francisco city attorney is suing 16 websites that create and distribute non-consensual AI-generated pornography. This is a first of a kind lawsuit. The sites, which are not named, allow paying customers to upload photos of real people, apply AI to […]

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Security News Update for August 9, 2024

Interpol Recovers Over $40 Mill from Biz Email Compromise Attack INTERPOL has created a global stop-payment mechanism that it can use to recover funds. A company in Singapore thought they were paying a vendor. Instead they paid a hacker. INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments or I-GRIP was able to recover $39 million out of […]

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Ireland Sues Twitter Over Harvesting User Data for Their AI

But everyone does it, right? The Irish Data Protection Commission asked the High Court of Ireland in Dublin to stop the social media company from using customer data to train its large language model. Twitter added a setting last month, which defaults to enabled, that allows it to use any user data to train its […]

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Meta Agrees to Pay Texas $1.4 Billion to Settle Biometric Lawsuit

The Texas Attorney General is making big headlines and while he is not running for election this year, you can count on him bringing this up next time. Meta has agreed to pay Texas $1.4 billion or about one percent of its annual revenue (plus likely a tax deduction) for using facial recognition on Texas […]

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