It is old news (as in 3 days old) that Anthropic, maker of Claude, accidentally included hundreds of thousands of source code when they included an internal file in a public release. That file was only meant for internal use. That, by itself, is embarrassing but not catastrophic. It certainly helps hackers look for bugs, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]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]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Cyber Command 2.0 DoD, apparently, doesn’t like it being called Cyber Command 2.0. Maybe we should call it 3.0 or 4.0. DoD has been wrestling with making Cyber Command more effective since it was formed in 2010. Multiple presidents from both parties have failed at it. Now DoD has a new plan to solve […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Like many AI tools, Claude has a code generating tool. You can use it for good. Or not so good. Chinese spies are using the code generation tool to target companies. Tech companies. Finance. Chemical. And, yes, government agencies. Anthropic created a paper documenting what they know. You can read it here. Anthropic says this is […]
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