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Security News Bites for March 14, 2025

Musk’s Grok AI Says 75%-85% Probability That Trump is a Russian Asset Some of you are probably old enough to remember Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say The Darnedest Things”. Grok is like that, apparently. Responding to a prompt from a journalist, Grok, the Maximally Truth Seeking AI, according to Musk, says that there is a 75% […]

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Security News Bites for February 21, 2025

Is Russia Reining-In Ransomware? Historically, if you are a ransomware hacker you are in heaven in Russia as long as you don’t attack targets favored by the Kremlin. Putin has arrested, unexpectedly, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a famous Russian hacker who was indicted in the U.S. He paid a fine and had to give Putin a […]

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The House Task Force on AI

The House created a task force on Artificial Intelligence last year which was tasked with developing a US vision for AI adoption, innovation and governance. They provided 66 key findings and 85 recommendations over 15 different issue areas. The Steptoe law firm summarized the key aspects of this report (link below). Congress has some interesting […]

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Security News Update for October 11, 2024

Microsoft Confirms MMC Bug Being Exploited – No Patch I could tell you to patch the bug but, for the 23rd time this year, the bug is being exploited in the wild and there is no patch. The bug, rated 7.8/10, is in the Microsoft Management Console tool and it was not among the 119 […]

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Ireland Sues Twitter Over Harvesting User Data for Their AI

But everyone does it, right? The Irish Data Protection Commission asked the High Court of Ireland in Dublin to stop the social media company from using customer data to train its large language model. Twitter added a setting last month, which defaults to enabled, that allows it to use any user data to train its […]

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