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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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Did Someone Tell You iPhones Are Secure? Not Really!

Hard coded secrets are things like passwords and API keys that are hard coded into “apps” for anyone to find. Generally considered a bad thing. 🙂 Cybernews researched more than 150,000 iOS apps and found more than 815,000 secrets. This includes thousands that are sensitive. Secrets that could lead to breaches. Now that this information […]

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Security News Bites for March 7, 2025

Prez Eases Attacks On Moscow to Cozy Up to Putin As the president tries to get Putin to the negotiating table by continuing to make concessions to him, the Pentagon has told the NSA to stop offensive cyberattacks against Russia. This is the exact opposite of what he said he would do during the campaign. […]

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EU’s “Gatekeeper” Rules Boost Smaller Players

And big US players are not happy. Apple has been forced to allow users to specify non-Safari browsers as their default. Browser choice was also opened in the Android world although users could already use any browser they want to. Mostly, it is about companies like Apple, Google, TikTok and a few other mega players […]

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Security News Bites for February 14, 2025

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.Gov Website The web site pulls from a database that anyone can edit. The ultimate definition of full transparency, I guess. It is also not hosted on a government server. Credit: 404 Media VP Calls for Less AI Regulation at Summit The Veep spoke at the Paris AI Action […]

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Apple Warns of “Extremely Sophisticated Attack”

Since Apple is usually very mild in its reports, to call this an extremely sophisticated attack that may be targeting iThings is pretty unusual. The bug is in something called USB restricted mode which disables the USB port on phones and tablets after they have been locked for an hour. The idea is to stop […]

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