The 2024 Golden Globe Awards are the gift that keeps on giving. Possibly the worst-produced awards telecast in my lifetime, the 81st Golden Globes generated a stench that allowed every other 2024 awards show to rest on the laurels that, if nothing else, they were better than the Globes. And they all were! Every single […]
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Every year has its own mix of digital security debacles, from the absurd to the sinister, but 2024 was particularly marked by hacking sprees in which cybercriminals and state-backed espionage groups repeatedly exploited the same weakness or type of target to fuel their frenzy. For attackers, the approach is ruthlessly efficient, but for compromised institutions—and […]
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In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking them into producing problematic outputs including hateful jokes, malicious code and phishing emails, or the personal information of users. It turns out that misbehavior can take place in the physical world, too: LLM-powered robots can […]
Smith testified before the US Senate in September that Russia, China, and Iran had stepped up their digital efforts to interfere in global elections this year, including in the US. However, Microsoft’s own security standards have come under fire in recent months. A damning report by the US Cyber Safety Review Board in March said […]
Only after the next intrusion, when Volexity managed to get more complete logs of the hackers’ traffic, did its analysts solve the mystery: The company found that the hijacked machine which the hackers were using to dig around in its customer’s systems was leaking the name of the domain on which it was hosted—in fact, […]
An illicit JavaScript pop-up on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours later, the organization confirmed the incident. Longtime security researcher Troy Hunt, who runs the data-breach-notification website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) also confirmed that the breach is legitimate. He said it occurred in […]
