Hackers can and are contributing to open-source projects, but their contributions are not benign. Open-source – including AI code generators , are the main stay of software development. Saves time and money. In the second quarter of 2025, data exfiltration remained the top priority for attackers looking to quietly compromise developer environments from the inside out. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, so you may want to take a shower after reading this, but it is important. Nudify apps do just that. You upload a picture of someone, say a high school girl you want to bully. Enter your (stolen) credit card. Click a few buttons and you download a deepfake nude image of the picture […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA disclosed a vulnerability that can be exploited to tamper with both passenger and freight train brakes. The railroad industry has known about the weakness for 20 years but even though the government approached them multiple times, they declined to fix it. Basically, there is a box at the end of the train called a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you can, you are better off charging at home. Not everyone has that option. Since both the car charging port and the public charger are network interfaces that have to communicate both in and out, they – and you – are at risk. What is the risk? It includes disrupting the charging process, stealing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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