Move fast and break things. That should be the mantra of AI everywhere. AI is both good and here to stay, but you need to validate anything that you do with AI. At least at this point in its lifecycle. Imagine, just for one sad moment, you’re in a life-or-death situation. You’re terribly ill and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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]Drug Cartels Use IT to Kill FBI Informants According to a newly published report, a Sinaloa cartel/El Chapo insider contacted the FBI in 2018 and told it of all the ways in which the cybercrook hired by the cartel helped it track down those who could give up key details about its operation and eliminate […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Tea app, apparently, is a women-only dating safety app where members can share reviews about men, with access to the platform requiring a selfie and a government ID. The app, apparently, had a security problem. On Friday a user posted that there was an unsecured Firebase storage bucket with driver’s licenses, selfies and photos […]
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, […]
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