Court Rules FISA 702 Surveillance of US Resident Unconstitutional It will be interesting to see if this holds up under appeal. A court in NY ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is not a free pass when it comes to surveilling US residents. If this holds, this is a huge win to reduce […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New reports are coming out about how to jailbreak Microsoft’s GitHub AI assistant to get it to do, well, bad things. Not a big surprise, of course. Researchers have discovered two new ways to manipulate GitHub’s artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Copilot, enabling the ability to bypass security restrictions and subscription fees, train malicious models, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is the short version. AMD partner Asus disclosed a microcode bug before AMD has a patch developed. They posted a beta BIOS update that has since been removed. Remember that the BIOS gets loaded before the operating system, so any OS security tools are likely useless in blocking this. The good news is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A week after Fortinet announced a patch for a zero-day, there are still thousands of systems worldwide vulnerable. A week ago Shadowserver identified 52,000 networks at risk. Now that is down to 48,000 and change. In other words, not much patching is going on even though the media has been sounding the alarm all week. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Conceptually, that is hard to argue with. But, as businesses of all sizes and government agencies at all levels are being hacked daily, is the ‘less is more’ philosophy correct. One thing she went after is CISA’s work on misinformation and disinformation. This is a frequent complaint of some right wingers and to some extent, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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