Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot
…It also enrolled all potentially impacted accounts “into a mandatory security checkpoint requiring authentication before any account access.”
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Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits
…They also disabled Nightmare Eclipse’s GitHub, GitLab, and Microsoft Security Response Center accounts disabled. As Beaumont points out, “It’s quite difficult to ‘responsibly’ report future vulnerabilities when you have been…
Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
…Vercel confirmed in a post on X that a “security incident” had occurred, and that it impacted a “limited subset” of its customers. Vercel said that a compromised third-party AI tool…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
…He also found an admin portal accessible via the public internet — and that the cannabis clubs had a trivial level of security on their own accounts, using passwords that could theoretically be…
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
…The group got unauthorized access to Mythos through a combination of insider knowledge and a lucky guess, not some sophisticated technological exploit or wholesale theft of the model. Security vulnerabilities are…
Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE
…Since Google had notified him that DHS subpoenaed his personal email, Thomas-Johnson assumed the government also sought access to his university account — but when he asked Cornell, he received no response…
Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like AI bots for Copilot
…The platform rose in popularity earlier this year, though it has since raised a number of serious security concerns. Sources tell The Information that Microsoft is confident that it can implement…
Attack of the killer script kiddies
…And organizations will need to build out secure software and secure architecture for networks to avoid ending up in an endless cycle of patching. “You have to build more secure software in…
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
…But bad actors could’ve easily spied on all these locations — and a million more — because many of Meari Technology’s Wi-Fi baby monitors and security cameras were absurdly insecure. If…
Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise
…Queries will be handled on-device where possible and in its secure Private Cloud Compute system when not. Apple says your data won’t be stored, will only be used to execute…