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Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire
2024-07-10 07:25

After publication of my "Kryptonite" article about a prompt that crashes many AI chatbots, I began to get a steady stream of emails from readers - many times the total of all reader emails I'd received in the previous decade. Disappointingly, too many of them consisted of little more than a request to reveal the prompt so that they could lay waste to large language models.

Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
2024-07-05 08:26

Europol published a position paper today highlighting its concerns around SMS home routing - the technology that allows telcos to continue offering their services when customers visit another country. According to the cops, they pointed out that when roaming, a suspect in a criminal case who's using a SIM from another country will have all of their mobile communications processed through their home network.

CISA director: US is 'not afraid' to shout about Big Tech's security failings
2024-07-01 09:35

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US sanctions 12 Kaspersky Lab execs for working in Russian tech sector
2024-06-21 17:32

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned twelve Kaspersky Lab executives for operating in the technology sector of Russia. These sanctions came after the Biden administration announced yesterday the ban of sales and software updates for Kaspersky antivirus software in the USA, which started in July, over potential cybersecurity risks to national security.

Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech
2024-06-18 23:46

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CHERI Alliance formed to promote memory security tech ... but where's Arm?
2024-06-18 15:04

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Critical Fluent Bit flaw affects major cloud platforms, tech companies’ offerings (CVE-2024-4323)
2024-05-21 11:21

Tenable researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-4323) in Fluent Bit, a logging utility used by major cloud providers and tech companies, which may be leveraged for denial of...

Big Tech is not much help when fighting a junta, and FOSS doesn't ride to the rescue
2024-05-21 03:35

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Fighting identity fraud? Here’s why we need better tech
2024-05-21 03:00

Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally. In this Help Net Security video, Patrick Harding, Chief Architect at Ping Identity, discusses the state of identity fraud prevention.

NCSC CTO: Broken market must be fixed to usher in new tech
2024-05-16 09:33

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