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OpenAI just made its first cybersecurity investment
Generative AI has vastly expanded the toolkit available to hackers and other bad actors. It’s now possible to do everything…
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Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures is raising $100M for a new fund
Ballistic Ventures, the VC firm co-founded by Ted Schlein (known for his years at Kleiner Perkins), is raising $100 million…
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This sneaky Android spyware needs a password to uninstall. Here’s how to remove it without one
Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult…
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Trump’s national security advisor reportedly used his personal Gmail account to do government work
Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security advisor, Michael Waltz — used…
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Trump’s national security adviser reportedly used his personal Gmail account to do government work
Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security adviser, Michael Waltz — used…
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Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in bizarre hacking campaign
Are you willing to hack and take control of Chinese websites for a random person for up to $100,000 a…
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Oracle under fire for its handling of separate security incidents
Tech giant Oracle is facing criticism for how it’s handling two seemingly separate data breaches. At least one of the…
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API testing firm APIsec exposed customer data during security lapse
API testing firm APIsec has confirmed it secured an exposed internal database containing customer data, which was connected to the…
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Mobile Tech
T-Mobile slapped with $33 million bill for a SIM swap it didn’t stop
Kris Carlon / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile was ordered to pay $33 million in damages after losing an arbitration case…
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Again and again, NSO Group’s customers keep getting their spyware operations caught
On Thursday, Amnesty International published a new report detailing attempted hacks against two Serbian journalists, allegedly carried out with NSO…
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Mozilla patches Firefox bug ‘exploited in the wild’, similar to bug attacking Chrome
Mozilla has fixed a security bug in its Firefox for Windows browser that was “being exploited in the wild.” In…
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NHS vendor Advanced to pay £3M fine following 2022 ransomware attack
NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £3 million ($3.8 million) in fines for not implementing basic security measures before…
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Leaked data exposes a Chinese AI censorship machine
A complaint about poverty in rural China. A news report about a corrupt Communist Party member. A cry for help…
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Google fixes Chrome zero-day security flaw used in hacking campaign targeting journalists
Google said it has fixed a vulnerability in its Chrome browser for Windows that malicious hackers have used to break…
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23andMe files for bankruptcy: How to delete your data
DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy protection on March 16, sparking concerns about what could happen to the genetic…
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