Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech
Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina. Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts.
Microsoft says Chinese hackers gained access to US government email accounts and had access to at least some accounts for a month before the breach was detected
https://www.cisa.gov/... JosephMenn / @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange : Friday night news dump came on Tuesday this week. Free gift link: Chinese hackers breach gov email accounts vi...
In June, the US State Department told Microsoft that its emails in Azure were hacked; attackers stole a Microsoft key and hacked ~25 organizations' emails
The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month
Microsoft says Chinese hackers gained access to US government email accounts and had access to some accounts for a month before the breach was detected
The hack, by a Chinese group that the company said was intent on conducting espionage, went undetected for a month. — Reporting from Washington
UK MPs, consumer groups, and banks pressure Meta over not preventing fraud on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, estimated to cost UK households £250M in 2023
The Guardian : Twitter: @adam_k_levin and @walleyray Twitter: Adam Levin / @adam_k_levin : “These platforms, including Meta, profit from crime and yet remain beyond the reach of l...
The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps
New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog …
Google plans to change Chrome's URL bar lock icon, introduced to signify HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, because “nearly all phishing sites use HTTPS”
Honestly, it's about time. … Tweets: Brian Jackson / @brianleejackson : Interesting. The HTTPS lock icon 🔒 is being replaced with a tune icon. Coming to a #Chrome near you. I remem...
Kaspersky: malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2K-$20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975
Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
Researcher: bugs in Nexx's Wi-Fi-enabled garage door openers let hackers open garages; Nexx hasn't responded to patch appeals for months, including from the DHS
A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after talking for six weeks with an AI chatbot that presented itself as an emotional being in the app Chai
The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models. — Chloe Xiang
A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai
The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models. — Chloe Xiang
Experts say that, in the short term, the promise and perils of generative AI may be more modest than the fervor surrounding tools like ChatGPT makes them seem
Hype and fear collide in the tech industry's latest boom — If you listen to its boosters, artificial intelligence is poised …
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race
A profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Tesla's Model X development and has been at the helm of OpenAI's strategy to test its tools in public
OpenAI unlocked the generative-AI boom with tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E—and that's why it's our Most Innovative Company of the Year. Tweets: @ainsleyoc , @imkarthikk , @mikehofma...
Community Health Systems, which owns ~80 hospitals in 16 US states, says hackers stole data on up to 1M patients; Russia-linked malware gang Clop takes credit
Carly Page / TechCrunch :
As China introduces rules to combat deepfakes, authorities around the world have approved few regulations, often because of free speech concerns
Few governments have approved regulations, often because of free-speech concerns. New mandates from China could change the tone of the debate on digital forgeries. Tweets: @nytime...
Trend Micro researchers demonstrate how threat actors can abuse GitHub Codespaces' port forwarding feature to host and distribute malware and malicious scripts
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; users would need an Adobe plug-in costing $15/month to access colors
Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black
The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
Researchers say the Lapsus$ hackers' success reveals how many weaknesses in organizations weren't immediately useful to state-backed actors or cybercriminals
an important key to their success researchers say can't be overlooked. https://www.wired.com/...