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Security News Bites for July 18, 2025

DOGE Staffer Leaked Private xAI API Key This does not appear to be malicious but both careless and of questionable judgement. Marko Elez, a special government employee who recently worked on systems at Treasury, Social Security and Homeland, published code to his GitHub. The code contained a private API key that exposed dozens of models […]

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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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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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