Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the feds, with minimal restrictions, to spy on Americans. Neither side of the aisle are in favor of that. In fact, since the law was enacted after 9/11, it has “sunsetted” every few years, typically until a couple of months after the next presidential election. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Both drinking water and waste water systems in New York will have to comply with new cybersecurity rules by the end of the year with new state laws that are going into effect. In the grand scheme of things, these changes are pretty basic, but you may remember that the EPA tried to implement cybersecurity […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Legislators around the world want everyone to validate their identity but there is a dark underside to this. Researchers discovered an unprotected MongoDB database that seems to be tied to the identity verification service IDMerit. It contained a billion records including 203 million records of people in the United States. That is more than half […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This was an unfair test, I guess. Jack & Jill is an online hiring platform. CodeWall is an autonomous AI agent that tries to hack stuff. By plan, it is for the good guys, but probably not for long. In a test, the agent chained together four bugs in the Jack & Jill software that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]These AI agents are everywhere and some of them are fully autonomous. In order to do anything useful, they have to have access to your digital life – files, calendars, emails, online services, online accounts and everything else. But none of these agents are perfect and here are some stories – good and not so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Open Source is good, right? Maybe, not always. CyberStrikeAI lowers the barrier to complex cyberattacks by combining AI orchestration, MCP integration, and more than 100 offensive tools into a single, public, open source GitHub repository. AI is making things easy – for attackers – to launch really sophisticated and AI DRIVEN attacks. The developer is […]
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