10.17.25 Security News Bites If You Have Connected a Chatbot to Your Email/Calendar. Or other Apps. You May Want to disconnect it. Gemini and other chatbots (such as Grok) can be compromised by hidden input. The example is Gemini and mail and calendar integration. You can construct a prompt, embed it invisibly into an email […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]10.10.25 Security News Bites Flock Surveillance Camera Company Now Detects Voices The company that sells nationwide surveillance using license plate readers now also detects gunshots and voices. I think the idea is to detect voices like “Help Police!”, but it is getting a bit scary. You, of course, have no control over this as the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The president has been trying to pressure China by implementing restrictions on trade. Whether that is massive tariffs on many products US companies import from China or banning, on and off, the sale of chips and chip making equipment to China. Apparently, Xi Jinping can read the newspapers and figures if that works for the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t think this is going to work, but I don’t think it will do any harm. Arizona, the stereotype goes, is where old people go. People who are less cyber literate and much less crypto literate. How does the scam work? The hacker contacts a potentially susceptible mark and gives them some cock and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]10.03.25 Security News Bites Flock Surveillance Camera Network CEO Says Privacy is Not his Problem Flock Safety is the operator of a nationwide network of surveillance cameras that read and correlate license plates wherever they may be. Cops and pretty much anyone else whose check clears can participate. The feds use it to track people […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is exactly what some folks in Congress tried to prevent when they tried but failed to ban state AI safety laws. California is only one state enacting such laws, but time will tell how this ends up. The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA) tells AI companies to implement and also disclose publicly, safety protocols […]
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