Consumers lost almost a billion dollars to Zelle fraud between 2017 and 2023. While that sounds like a lot, Zelle transferred over a trillion dollars last year. Zelle – officially Early Warning Services – is owned by the big banks including Wells, Chase, Bank of America and a few others. While many kinds of bank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jenner & Block partner Adam Unikowsky, who is considered a superstar of the next generation of Supreme Court attorneys and who is very tech savvy did an experiment. He asked an AI to answer the same questions he was asked by the supremes when he argued Williams v. Reed last fall. Unikowsky got both undergrad […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, you heard me right. No, not party balloons, spy balloons. As countries want ever more spy data but don’t have ever more budget, this is an option they are testing. Just last week the UK said it had completed trials of an UNCREWED, high altitude set of balloons. The MoD said they were a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI is Great – But Is It Secure? MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are the backbone of agentic AI. But researchers say that authentication is optional and nearly all of the nearly 2,000 MCP servers exposed to the Internet today do not require authentication or have access controls. What could possibly go wrong? To test […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI released a warning yesterday about a loosely-organized cybercriminal organization called The Com. The Com launches cyberattacks to steal money and information. The FBI released 3 security bulletins about The Com, a group made up of English-speaking minors, but which has expanded to include THOUSANDS of people who commit a variety of crimes. The crimes include ransomware, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DOGE Staffer Leaked Private xAI API Key This does not appear to be malicious but both careless and of questionable judgement. Marko Elez, a special government employee who recently worked on systems at Treasury, Social Security and Homeland, published code to his GitHub. The code contained a private API key that exposed dozens of models […]
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