Security

Auto Added by WPeMatico

CrowdStrike and the FBI are dismantling Sality after 23 years

Sality has been infecting computers since 2003, making it older than the iPhone, Facebook, and much of the security industry now working to dismantle it. US law enforcement and CrowdStrike began taking it apart this week, Reuters reported. For more than two decades, the operation has been used for fairly ordinary cybercrime. Infected machines have […]

This story continues at The Next Web

CrowdStrike and the FBI are dismantling Sality after 23 years Read More »

Dropbox says 5,000 accounts were breached through a Lenovo login

Somebody registered a Lenovo ID using a stranger’s email address and then used it to sign into that person’s Dropbox account without needing their password. About 5,000 accounts were compromised between August 4 and 21, Dropbox said. The flaw was in a legacy integration between Lenovo ID and Dropbox that did not properly verify email […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Dropbox says 5,000 accounts were breached through a Lenovo login Read More »

Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance

Microsoft is getting ready to roll out its memory integrity security feature of Windows 11 to more devices next month. The kernel-level protection feature is designed to stop malicious code or drivers running on a Windows 11 machine, but Microsoft previously warned it can also impact PC gaming performance. “Windows quality updates will begin enabling […]

Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance Read More »

The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility

Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI – after it lost control of its own AI tools – or by a succession of AI “civilizations.” Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to […]

The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Read More »

ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday. It sits in the Department of Homeland Security’s […]

This story continues at The Next Web

ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition Read More »

A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the finding for The Register on Friday. The work is by Johann Rehberger, who publishes as wunderwuzzi and has […]

This story continues at The Next Web

A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page Read More »

Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week

Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states run by Republican governors moved against Flock Safety in the space of a week. Zack Whittaker reported both decisions for TechCrunch on […]

This story continues at The Next Web

Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week Read More »

Shopping Cart