It seems like this is becoming too frequent. A lone hacker used Claude and ChatGPT to breach Mexico’s government. 1 person. Two AI subscriptions. Nine agencies compromised. 150 gigabytes of data stolen. The breached agencies include Mexico’s federal tax authority and the national electoral institute, also state level systems in the Mexican states of Jalisco, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]EDR or Endpoint Detection and Response is what should have replaced the anti-virus software on your computer years ago. You can think of it as AV on steroids, without all the steroid side effects. Microsoft being Microsoft, they had to do stupid things to allow this hack to work. They never want to intentionally break […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a tale of three firewall vendors: Cisco, Checkpoint and Fortinet and their security challenges. First, even though we likely think of a firewall as a piece of hardware, in reality, it is just a specialized computer – think of it as the original Internet of Things device – that runs a lot of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Five of eight Ivy League schools have been hacked in the last six months. Add the most effective technique is definitely not high tech – it is plain old social engineering on the phone. Harvard discovered that its Alumni Affairs and Development systems were compromised last month. The hack exposed the personal information of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The president would like to help his campaign donors and his kids by killing off any limits on how AI is used. Since the White House has not espoused a strategy as of yet on placing any guardrails on AI (other than we don’t want any guardrails on AI), the states have stepped in and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may have heard of the Chinese cyberattack on American telecommunications giants like AT&T, Verizon and Lumen (AKA Qwest or US West). Between 2019 and AT LEAST 2024, they had free reign to listen in to conversations like Trump, Kamala Harris and millions of ordinary people, but the scope is getting much bigger. While the […]
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