City of Columbus Warns Victims After Saying No Data Was Taken The city admitted that data was stolen including information in prosecutor’s database. The city says that they will help victims who are now being victimized again and whose lives may be in danger due to the city’s poor security practices. The mayor said that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]White House Working on Cyber Insurance Policy for Catastrophes The White House is working on a policy proposal to stabilize the economy in case of a massive cyber incident. This would require help from Congress, of course, but it is certainly possible that we could have a cyber 9/11 that would require a federal bailout. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter’s AI tool, Grok, has very limited “guard rails”. For example, one Grok AI image shows Trump piloting a plane that looks like it is about to crash into the Twin Towers with one of the towers already in flames. Even though Grok says that it won’t let you create images that infringe on copyrights […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is far from the biggest breach of the year, it is likely the one with the most political impact. At least so far. I assume the campaigns are doubling or tripling down on their security. Last week Politico said that it received multiple emails from a leaker who said that they hacked the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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