The Drey Dossier: “…Login.gov is open source, which means the government publishes its code in the open for anyone to read, so I read it, and I walked the recent changes, since every edit gets posted in public with a date stamped on it. Over the last couple of months somebody added a new piece ...
404 Media no paywall: “A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific ...
Violent extremist actors, including Salafi-Jihadists, neo-Nazis, nihilistic violent extremists (NVE), and others, are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) for novel purposes, including translation, propaganda generation, attack planning, and the spread of misinformation. Yet, the most sophisticated and scalable AI-enabled harms are currently being driven by cybercriminals, and the…
404 Media: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with a spyware company that tells customers it ensures they can use the tool without the agency being caught doing so, according to documents obtained by 404 Media through our ongoing lawsuit against ICE. In September, we sued ICE for documents related to its $2 million contract ...
LLRX https://www.llrx.com Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – Sabrina I. Pacifici Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors. Damien Charlotin Deep Coverage – Right now the dominant AI strategy in law is using AI to replace or augment human labor on work ...
Gizmodo: “A joint public warning issued by “Five Eyes,” an alliance between the intelligence agencies of five anglophone countries including the U.K. and U.S., says China-linked spies are using job boards to pry classified information or other secrets out of its targets. The report claims China’s military intelligence operation is finding people in places like ...
Fortune Tech: “President Trump’s long-rumored executive order about artificial intelligence has finally dropped. The EO, published Tuesday with little fanfare, aims to address cybersecurity threats posed by AI. It calls for the prioritization of cyber defense, the provision of cybersecurity tools and services (including frontier models) for government agencies and various other organizations, and…
'It’s kind of like someone breaking into your house and the government tell you to get out, it isn't yours anymore.'
The Drey Dossier – “There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead. Mine found me on TrumpRx. If you have not been to TrumpRx, it is a federal drug pricing website that looks like Wix and a Pinterest board threw up on each other. There ...
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 29, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the ...
Check Point – 2026 U.S. Election Threat Outlook: “The 2026 U.S. midterm election cycle is expected to drive elevated cyber threat activity across the broader election ecosystem, including political organizations, fundraising and media platforms, government services, campaign personnel, and the providers that support them. Current intelligence and reporting indicate that the most likely 2026…
Via Reddit – “This is what the storage of user information by an age verification company called FaceTec looks like, one of the big players alongside Persona and Yoti. They claim to be “privacy-friendly,” but they proudly allow companies that purchase their software/solution to store as much user data as they want. The company permits ...
Parents who have lost their children through social media attend Downing Street today to ask for the age to be 16 before social media can be used on their children’s phones (Picture: w8media)
The parents of Brianna Ghey and Molly Russell told Sir Keir Starmer to show courage and political leadership as they met with him to demand action on the dangers of social media.
The Prime Minister was…
Gizmodo: “The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from Bloomberg have ...
Proton Blog: “Journalists have always operated in the crosshairs. They investigate the powerful, protect confidential sources, and publish uncomfortable truths. Today the threats they face are evolving, with political pressure and surveillance coming not only from authoritarian regimes but also from backsliding liberal democracies. Bad actors can use hacks and data breaches to disrupt their ...
Government Executive: “The White House recently unveiled a new app to give the public “unfiltered” access to “key priorities,” “historic moments” and “policy breakthroughs.” Now, it’s directing agencies to help install it on the government phones of federal employees. The Trump administration launched the app, which promises to “[keep] you connected to President Donald J. ...
The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency has arrested a gang in southern Punjab accused of selling sensitive personal and security-related data of citizens and important personalities to foreign agencies. Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad, NCCIA Director General Syed Khurram Ali said the group was involved in illegally obtaining and selling confidential information for […]
Vox – no paywall: “….AI models learn by identifying patterns within enormous bodies of text. This widely-understood fact has an underappreciated consequence: LLMs don’t necessarily give the same answers in every language — certain phrases or arguments may appear more regularly in Japanese training data than in the English kind. This is not inherently a ...
Washington Post [no paywall]: “It’s been nearly a year since Elon Musk left the federal government, and while there have been a few recent revelations, there is still plenty about how the U.S. DOGE Service operated and what its members did in government that remains shrouded in mystery. For months, the Government Accountability Office has ...
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, May 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided ...
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 15, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly ...
After a Meta updated, messages are now 'more like postcards than locked boxes'.
Fortune Tech: “Researchers with the Silicon Valley security firm Calif say they were able to use Anthropic’s Mythos AI model to corrupt an Apple Mac’s memory and gain access to parts of the machine that they shouldn’t. It’s called a “privilege escalation exploit,” and it can be used to seize control of a computer. The ...
Fortune Tech: “Google’s Threat Intelligence Group said Monday that it was able to stop an effort by hackers to use AI to “plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation.” According to Google, the hackers used an AI model to find, then exploit, a zero-day vulnerability, the name for a software flaw that developers aren’t yet aware ...
From surveillance and choking online access to governments going rogue, these are the most pressing threats to face the internet and its billions of users today.
Een nieuwe malware voor Macs misbruikt onder meer Claude-achtige chatbots om zijn weg te vinden naar slachtoffers. Het gaat om alweer een nieuwe, creatieve manier om mensen in de val te laten lopen.
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Les modèles d'intelligence artificielle les plus récents présentent des cyber-risques susceptibles de perturber le système financier. Tel est l'avertissement lancé par le Fonds Monétaire International (FMI), qui appelle les décideurs politiques à coopérer et à se préparer à une intrusion ‘inévitable’.
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Fin avril, des hackers se sont introduits chez Instructure, la société américaine à l'origine de la plateforme éducative Canvas. Ils y ont dérobé 3,65 téraoctets de données appartenant à 275 millions d'utilisateurs environ dans le monde. Au moins huit établissements belges figurent parmi les écoles touchées.
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Hackers braken eind april in bij Instructure, het Amerikaanse bedrijf achter het onderwijsplatform Canvas. Ze maakten 3,65 terabyte aan data buit van zo'n 275 miljoen gebruikers wereldwijd. Onder de getroffen scholen zitten ook minstens acht Belgische instellingen.
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De nieuwste AI-modellen brengen cyberrisico’s met zich mee die het financiële systeem kunnen ontwrichten. Zo waarschuwt het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (IMF), dat beleidsmakers oproept om onderling samen te werken en zich voor te bereiden op een "onvermijdelijke" inbreuk.
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