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08.29.25 Security News Bites

Musk Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Favoring ChatGPT Over His Chatbot Apple has had its fair share of lawsuits over the years as they try to control the Apple universe. Lately, some of those walls have seemed a bit shaky. In this case, Musk is whining that Apple is favoring Sam Altman’s (OpenAI, ChatGPT) app […]

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08.15.25 Security News Bites

Qubic Claims to Control Monero Mining Any blockchain is supposed to be unchangeable. That is unless you control the hashing function. The premise behind all blockchains is that there are a lot of independent hash systems which prevents collusion to change the data. If you can change the block data then it is like a […]

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08.08.25 Security News Bites

AI Vendor Perplexity Accused of Scraping Websites That Explicitly Blocked AI Scraping Oops. Did they do that? They wouldn’t do that, would they? Cloudflare published research that says it actually saw Perplexity scraping sites while explicitly obscuring its identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. To the tune of tens of thousands of […]

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Security News Bites for July 18, 2025

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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Security News Bites for July 11, 2025

How to Trick ChatGPT? I Give Up A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game. Part of the reason the trick worked was that the sensitive data had […]

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Security News Bites for July 4, 2025

Fake DMV Texts Scam Thousands This is a variation of the text scams we have seen before. These attacks impersonate DMV authorities and have tricked thousands into handing over sensitive info. The texts point to a scam website that looks like real DMV web sites and threatens license suspension and other legal penalties if people […]

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