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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fake DMV Texts Scam Thousands This is a variation of the text scams we have seen before. These attacks impersonate DMV authorities and have tricked thousands into handing over sensitive info. The texts point to a scam website that looks like real DMV web sites and threatens license suspension and other legal penalties if people […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Although how they did it is slightly different, Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other apps and Yandex, a Russian company that offers Google-like services, both figured out that just because a user said don’t track me didn’t mean that it applies to them. Rather than sending cookie data back to Meta and Yandex, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In response to a lawsuit filed by authors and being tried as a class action, Meta is making some interesting claims. The authors claim that Meta use massive quantities of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM). The plaintiffs unveiled evidence that Meta used BitTorrent to download at least 81.7 terabytes of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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