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Simon Willison has been playing with the video processing capabilities of the new Gemini Pro 1.5 model from Google, and it's really impressive. Which means a lot of scary new video prompt injection attacks.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the users' web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes. [...]

Apple has announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 that it said will be integrated into iMessage to secure the messaging platform against future attacks arising from the...

While every organization's specific security needs form a unique and complex blend of interconnected requirements, numerous security fundamentals almost always apply to each of these groups. It stands to reason that cybersecurity pros who effectively identify network and systems risks and who standardize methods of mitigating those vulnerabilities are likely to experience less stress and volatility.

Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are complaining Thursday morning about the lack of wireless service or interruptions to service. "The San Francisco Fire Department published a"cell phone service outage" announcement saying that "AT&T wireless customers can't make or receive any phone calls, although the 911 center is operational.

Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are complaining Thursday morning about the lack of wireless service or interruptions to service. According to data from problem tracking site Downdetector more than 73,000 AT&T customers from multiple states - including North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, reported a lack of service.

Today's edition of the week-long LockBit leaks reveals a father-son duo was apprehended in Ukraine as part of the series of takedown-related arrests this week. The National Police of Ukraine confirmed the relationship of the pair after they were arrested at the request of the French government.

Nathan Wenzler, chief security strategist at cyber security firm Tenable, said state-sponsored threat actors typically infiltrate by stealth and spread. Wenzler said Australian organisations should treat them as seriously as other actors or face serious risk during a geopolitical conflict. The Australian Cyber Security Centre found total reports of cybercrime were up by 23% to 94,000 in the year to June 2023, attributing part of that increase to state-sponsored attacks against critical infrastructure.

Most cybersecurity professionals believe AI will significantly impact their jobs, according to a new survey by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium; with only 35% of the respondents having already witnessed AI's effects on their jobs. The impact is not necessarily a positive or negative impact, but rather an indicator that cybersecurity pros expect their jobs to change.

LockBit ransomware developers were secretly building a new version of their file encrypting malware, dubbed LockBit-NG-Dev - likely to become LockBit 4.0, when law enforcement took down the cybercriminal's infrastructure earlier this week. While previous LockBit malware is built in C/C++, the latest sample is a work-in-progress written in.