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Security News Bites for January 24, 2025

Great AI Tool With a Large Dose of Chinese Propaganda and Censorship If you want a very high performing and very low cost AI model, likely subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party, that meets or beats OpenAI and are willing to tolerate Chinese propaganda and censorship, have I got a piece of software for you. […]

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Security News Bites for January 17, 2025

Is TikTok for Sale? Maybe! Mark Cuban says the number being floated around is more than $300 billion. It is unclear if this is for TikTok US or TikTok worldwide. And maybe Musk might buy it. Given how well he did with his purchase of Twitter, if he does buy it for $300 billion, Cuban […]

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Washington is Very Busy Before Jan 20th

It is interesting how “productive” the folks in DC can be when they want to. But I ask what have you been doing for the last four years. Getting my whining out of the way, there is a lot of stuff happening in this last week of the outgoing administration. The Federal Trade Commission handed […]

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The Consequences of Allowing Data Brokers to Sell Your Data

Data broker Gravy Analytics lost control of their location data database, affecting the privacy of millions. The hacker has published a “sample” of 30 million location records. Remember, 30 million represents just a sample; we don’t know who much data was stolen in total. The data released includes location data from fitness, health, dating, transit […]

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Feds Launch IoT Cyber Trust Mark

Soon you will start seeing this VOLUNTARY cyber trust on connected IoT devices from baby monitors, smart appliances to cameras to all sorts of things. The FCC created this program and it is likely that responsible manufacturers will sign up for it. The FCC is outsourcing the administration of this program to Underwriters Laboratory (UL), […]

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Study Says AI Can Guess Crypto Seed Phrases in 0.02 Seconds – Sort Of

Since we are almost at New Year’s eve, this post is a bit of a fun. AI knows all, right? 0.02 seconds, right? Well, not so fast. NFTEvening and Storible collaborated on a test to see how fast AI can figure out your seed phrase. First, what the heck is a seed phrase anyway? You […]

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