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As Governments Work to Ban Encryption, Cracks in Secret Encryption Become Public

While legislators in a variety of countries are trying very hard to ban encryption, vulnerabilities in existing encryption implementations are surfacing. While none of the proposed encryption bans are laws yet in the U.S., it doesn’t mean that people aren’t trying. More importantly, companies have for years thought that security by obscurity is a good […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 21, 2023

Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 14, 2023

OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]

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If ChatGPT Libels You, Who Do You Sue? – It Is A Problem Already

Everyone is in love with Large Language Model AIs, but they are far from perfect. Someone suggested that ChatGPT is “mansplaining as a service” (MaaS). While perhaps it is a somewhat pejorative term (to either the GPTs or men), it is fairly accurate. A couple of months ago a professor at UCLA asked ChatGPT to […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 7, 2023

Twitter Limits Number of Tweets You Can See Per Day Due to – according to Twitter – an insane amount of data scraping, Twitter is limiting the number of posts an unverified (free) account can see to 1,000 per day; new unverified accounts are limited to 500 a day. Verified (paid) accounts are limited to […]

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