Security News

Thursday, April 18, 2024

• UK police say they disrupted cyber fraud network that stole personal data from thousands
  A website that allowed international cyber fraudsters to trick up to 70,000 British victims into revealing personal information such as bank account details and passwords has been infiltrated and disrupted, London police said Thursday.
  
• Russian 'cyber sabotage' a global threat: Security firm
  A cyber group with links to Russian military intelligence is set to become a significant global threat after playing an increasing critical role in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, a leading cybersecurity firm warned Wednesday.
  
• Colorado law protects brain data captured by gadgets
  Colorado on Wednesday expanded its privacy law to include brain data gathered by the booming array of gadgets people use for feedback about sleep, fitness, sports, and lifestyle.
  

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

• Websites deceive users by deliberately hiding the extent of data collection and sharing
  Websites sometimes hide how widely they share our personal information, and can go to great lengths to pull the wool over our eyes. This deception is intended to prevent full disclosure to consumers, thus preventing informed choice and affecting privacy rights.
  
• AI is making smart devices easier to hack—here's how to stay safe
  From asking our smart speakers for the weather to receiving personalized advice from smartwatches, devices powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly streamlining our routines and decision making. The technology is seeping into our lives in subtle ways.
  

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

• Atrium Health shared patient data with Facebook, class-action lawsuit alleges
  A class-action lawsuit filed in North Carolina accuses Atrium Health of allowing Facebook and Google to access patient information online to use in targeted ads.
  
• Paris faces cyber battle to keep Games running and real
  The Paris Olympics are bracing themselves to fight off an unprecedented level of cyber attacks, for the first time augmented by artificial intelligence.
  

Monday, April 15, 2024

• Safeguarding the future of online security with AI and metasurfaces
  Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have advanced online security by integrating an AI-based metasurface with oblique helicoidal cholesteric liquid crystals.
  
• Microsoft, beset by hacks, grapples with problem years in the making
  The world's largest seller of cybersecurity products has a problem with its own cybersecurity.
  
• Israel using AI to identify human targets raising fears that innocents are being caught in the net
  A report by Jerusalem-based investigative journalists published in +972 magazine finds that AI targeting systems have played a key role in identifying—and potentially misidentifying—tens of thousands of targets in Gaza. This suggests that autonomous warfare is no longer a future scenario. It is already here and the consequences are horrifying.
  
• Security vulnerability in browser interface allows computer access via graphics card
  Modern websites place ever greater demands on the computing power of computers. For this reason, web browsers have also had access to the computing capacities of the graphics card (Graphics Processing Unit or GPU) in addition to the CPU of a computer for a number of years.
  

Saturday, April 13, 2024

• US House okays renewal of controversial surveillance program
  The US House of Representatives voted Friday to reauthorize an electronic surveillance program targeting foreigners, a practice officials say is critical to national security but criticized by opponents over concerns for American citizens' privacy.
  

Thursday, April 11, 2024

• Will AI be listening in on your future job interview? On law, technology and privacy
  The law and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications need to be better aligned to ensure our personal data and privacy are protected. Ph.D. candidate Andreas Häuselmann can see opportunities with AI, but dangers if this does not happen.
  

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

• World-first 'Cybercrime Index' ranks countries by cybercrime threat level
  Following three years of intensive research, an international team of researchers have compiled the first ever "World Cybercrime Index," which identifies the globe's key cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level.
  
• The real battle for data privacy begins when you die
  In 2012 a 15-year-old girl died in Berlin after being hit by a subway train. Her bereaved parents asked Facebook to turn over her private messages in hopes of understanding whether her death was a suicide or an accident.
  
• Researchers find a faster, better way to prevent an AI chatbot from giving toxic responses
  A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and the AI chatbot would likely be able to generate useful code or write a cogent synopsis. However, someone could also ask for instructions to build a bomb, and the chatbot might be able to provide those, too.
  

Monday, April 8, 2024

• 'Is this a deepfake?' Why we're asking the wrong question
  Over the past year, the prevalence and potential dangers of deepfakes have raised concerns related to personal privacy, business ethics and even election interference.
  
• Protecting art and passwords with biochemistry
  Security experts fear Q-Day, the day when quantum computers become so powerful that they can crack today's passwords. Some experts estimate that this day will come within the next ten years. Password checks are based on cryptographic one-way functions, which calculate an output value from an input value. This makes it possible to check the validity of a password without transmitting the password itself: the one-way function converts the password into an output value that can then be used to check its validity in, say, online banking.
  

Friday, April 5, 2024

• Sanction the use of cyberweapons, not the weapons themselves, concludes expert review
  A recent analysis by Helene Pleil, research associate at the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin, alongside colleagues from Technical University Darmstadt, outlines that rapid technological progress, a lack of political will and uniform definitions, as well as the dual use of cyber tools, are the main challenges facing effective cyber arms control which is vital for foreign and security policy. As cyberspace is increasingly used in conflicts, cyber arms control needs to be addressed as well.
  

Thursday, April 4, 2024

• Computer scientists discover gap in the latest security mechanisms used by some chips
  Over the past few years, hardware manufacturers have developed technologies that ought to make it possible for companies and governmental organizations to process sensitive data securely using shared cloud computing resources. Known as confidential computing, this approach protects sensitive data while it is being processed by isolating it in an area that is impenetrable to other users and even to the cloud provider. But computer scientists at ETH Zurich have now proven that it is possible for hackers to gain access to these systems and to the data stored in them.
  
• An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?
  Outside the world of open-source software, it's likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems. But late last week, security experts uncovered a serious and deliberate flaw that could leave networked Linux computers susceptible to malicious attacks.
  
• New privacy-preserving robotic cameras obscure images beyond human recognition
  From robotic vacuum cleaners and smart fridges to baby monitors and delivery drones, the smart devices being increasingly welcomed into our homes and workplaces use vision to take in their surroundings, taking videos and images of our lives in the process.
  

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

• Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected, finds study
  "Privacy. That's iPhone," the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University begs to differ.
  
• Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack
  In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying "a cascade of errors" by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
  

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

• Engineers and OpenAI recommend ways to evaluate large language models for cybersecurity applications
  Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and OpenAI published a white paper that found that large language models (LLMs) could be an asset for cybersecurity professionals, but should be evaluated using real and complex scenarios to better understand the technology's capabilities and risks. LLMs underlie today's generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, such as Google's Gemini, Microsoft's Bing AI, and ChatGPT, released in November 2022 by OpenAI.
  

Monday, April 1, 2024

• Research reveals language barriers limit effectiveness of cybersecurity resources
  The idea for Fawn Ngo's latest research came from a television interview. Ngo, a University of South Florida criminologist, had spoken with a Vietnamese language network in California about her interest in better understanding how people become victims of cybercrime. Afterward, she began receiving phone calls from viewers recounting their own experiences of victimization.
  
• Generative AI becoming a concern for supply chain managers
  The results of the Lehigh Business Supply Chain Risk Management Index for the second quarter of 2024 show cybersecurity is the biggest risk on supply chain managers' minds for the fifth straight quarter, increasing more than 5.5 points from last quarter.
  
• What is Volt Typhoon? Cybersecurity expert explains the Chinese hackers targeting US critical infrastructure
  Volt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. The United States government and its primary global intelligence partners, known as the Five Eyes, issued a warning on March 19, 2024, about the group's activity targeting critical infrastructure.
  

Sunday, March 31, 2024

• AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes
  AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online.
  

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

• French cyberdefence chief warns Paris Olympics a 'target'
  The head of France's national cybersecurity agency said the Paris Olympics would be a "target" this year including for foreign states interested in "disrupting the opening ceremony or causing problems on public transport".
  

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