A group of journalists and researchers today released evidence of a massive campaign to spy on numerous political leaders across the globe. Called “The Predator Files,” the project covers the use of potent spyware that targeted more than 50 social media accounts in 10 countries beginning in February. It documents the reports from dozens of ...

The role of civilian hackers during warfare continues to expand, and now at least one group is trying to set up some rules of engagement. But whether the proposal from the International Committee of the Red Cross announced Wednesday will gain any traction and make these attempts more humane is anyone’s guess. Civilian hackers have participated ...

Facial recognition software has come full circle, from tech darling to tech disaster. Now, its rise and fall have been chronicled by Kashmir Hill (pictured below), a technology reporter for the New York Times who has tracked its potential and problems through one of its major innovators, Clearview AI Inc. Her new book, “Your Face Belongs ...

Running a criminal cryptocurrency enterprise has certainly gotten more complicated. It was 10 years ago this week when Ross Ulbricht walked into a branch of the San Francisco public library to spend another day running the Silk Road, his marketplace for buying and selling illegal and questionable goods. He walked out in handcuffs after an ...

John Kindervag, the originator of the term zero-trust networking, has joined Illumio Inc. as its chief evangelist. Kindervag, whose appointment was announced Monday, has had a long and successful career in information security, including serving on various advisory boards and more than eight years working for Forrester Research as an analyst. He was at Forrester where ...

Security penetration testing provider SpecterOps Inc. today became the latest company to offer a “purple team” assessment, a sign that the collaborative approach to cybersecurity is catching on. The concept refers to using both defensive and offensive measures to understand the weak spots in a customer’s infrastructure, and to shore up defenses to prevent future ...

A new report on the security of artificial intelligence large language models, including OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, shows a series of poor application development decisions that carry weaknesses in protecting enterprise data privacy and security. The report is just one of many examples of mounting evidence of security problems with LLMs that have appeared recently, demonstrating ...

One of the largest nonfungible token marketplaces OpenSea was hacked once again this week. The hack follows two other attacks, the last back in June 2022, when a third-party contractor was able to download emails of its users and newsletter subscribers and provide a copy to an unauthorized party. An earlier phishing attack in February ...

Today is a big day for passkeys as two leaders in the market, 1Password and Yubico AB, announced milestones of a different sort for the growing security method. 1Password became the latest security provider to embrace passkeys — mostly, since this is just another example of how passkeys are more of a journey than a ...

Two Oxford, U.K.-based organizations today released a study examining the inherent gender bias of 13 AI-based chatbots, and the results aren’t encouraging. The study examined the responses to various prompts and ranked them according to professional bias of women and men in a workplace content and in telling stories about fictional protagonists. Calling out bias ...