Satellite hack on eve of Ukraine war was a coordinated, multi-pronged assault
LAS VEGAS — The cyberattack that crippled satellite communications on the eve of the Ukraine war was more broad than initially understood and carried out by attackers with detailed knowledge of the...
View ArticleWhite House is fast-tracking executive order on artificial intelligence
LAS VEGAS — The Biden administration is expediting work to develop an executive order to address risks posed by artificial intelligence and provide guidelines to federal agencies on how it might be...
View ArticleFifty minutes to hack ChatGPT: Inside the DEF CON competition to break AI
LAS VEGAS — When Carlos Moreno showed up to a hacking competition designed to test the integrity of the world’s most advanced chatbots, he decided to see how students in his home state of Oklahoma...
View ArticleMystery solved? Microsoft thinks it knows how Chinese hackers stole its...
When Microsoft revealed earlier this year that hackers based in China snooped on the email accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials, the news was accompanied by a mystery: How did the hackers...
View ArticleWhite House executive order on AI seeks to address security risks
The White House announced a long-awaited executive order on Monday that attempts to mitigate the security risks of artificial intelligence while harnessing the potential benefits of the technology....
View ArticleMicrosoft upgrades security for signing keys in wake of Chinese breach
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will update security protections for signing keys after coming under criticism from policymakers that deficient security controls allowed Chinese hackers to...
View ArticleReform bill would overhaul controversial surveillance law
Bipartisan legislation introduced to Congress on Tuesday would overhaul a controversial surveillance law to require a warrant for searches of Americans’ data collected under the measure, a proposal...
View ArticleCyber ops linked to Israel-Hamas conflict largely improvised, researchers say
In the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel, researchers and cybersecurity firms observed an uptick in operations by hacktivists and state-sponsored hacking groups. But more than one month into the...
View ArticleUS and UK release guidelines for secure AI development
U.S. and British authorities released guidelines Sunday for how to securely develop and deploy AI systems, the latest in a string of initiatives by Washington and London to address the security risks...
View ArticleRussian AI-generated propaganda struggles to find an audience
As generative artificial intelligence tools have become more widely available, many researchers and officials within the U.S. government have grown concerned that they might be used to power...
View ArticleIsrael-linked hacking group claims attack on Iranian gas pumps
A sophisticated hacking group linked to Israel claimed responsibility on Sunday for carrying out a cyberattack that disrupted a significant portion of Iran’s gas stations. The group known as...
View ArticleBitcoin price jumps after hackers hijack SEC Twitter account
The price of bitcoin briefly spiked on Tuesday after a post from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Twitter account claimed that the agency had approved exchanged traded funds to buy and sell...
View ArticleAfter hack, X claims SEC failed to use two-factor authentication
The social media platform X accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of failing to implement strong security features after the agency’s account on the platform was hijacked and used to falsely...
View ArticleWhite House moves to ease education requirements for federal cyber...
National Cyber Director Harry Coker said on Thursday that he is working with the Office of Management and Budget to remove the requirement for four-year degrees for some federal cybersecurity...
View ArticleMicrosoft critics accuse the firm of ‘negligence’ in latest breach
For the second time in six months, Microsoft has disclosed that spies affiliated with a foreign intelligence service breached the company’s systems, this time accessing the emails of senior company...
View ArticleState Department will not issue visas to individuals linked to spyware abuse
The State Department will on a case-by-case basis deny visas for individuals seeking to travel to the United States and who have been implicated in the misuse of commercial spyware, Secretary of State...
View ArticleState-backed hackers are experimenting with OpenAI models
For the world’s most advanced hackers, large language models are the latest hot productivity tool. In a report published Wednesday, Microsoft researchers said that they have observed hackers from...
View ArticleApple rolls out quantum-resistant cryptography for iMessage
At some point in coming decades, advances in quantum computing are expected to break most forms of contemporary cryptography, and now Apple is taking steps to protect its flagship messaging platform...
View ArticleMicrosoft rolls out expanded logging six months after Chinese breach
When hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government stole a Microsoft signing key and used it to breach the email accounts of senior U.S. government officials last year, that operation was only...
View ArticleBiden executive order seeks to cut China off from Americans’ sensitive data
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order Wednesday that will bar companies and individuals in the United States from selling certain types of large sensitive datasets to six countries: China,...
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