Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides
Canada’s planned surveillance law is the latest grim step in a series of threats to encryption that are spreading around the world.
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Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports
“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are Meta employees in the US, and Meta is now notifying them. Eduard Kovacs reported […]
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Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists
Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
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MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come
“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new […]
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MapQuest now shows Flock and other surveillance cameras on its map
MapQuest has added a surveillance layer to its app that shows known outdoor cameras and licence plate readers, including those made by Flock Safety. Users can switch it on in Map Options, next to the traffic and incidents layers. The update follows a surge in MapQuest downloads in September. MapQuest has added a layer to […]
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Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking AI agents from moving customer money
Charles Schwab is blocking unauthorised AI agents, including Meta’s Muse, that try to move client money, CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg Television. Schwab will instead let outside AI tools view balances through controlled MCP servers, and wants clients to use its own assistant, Charley. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon took a similar line this week. Charles Schwab […]
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Google adds Gemini-powered scam checks to Messages and Android calls
Google announced new Android scam defences on 14 October, led by an opt-in Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages that uses Gemini models in the cloud. Android will also end fake bank calls, hide login fields in Chrome during screen sharing, and block apps from silently forwarding calls. Google is adding new AI tools to […]
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Israeli ad firm used online ads to spread Candiru spyware, report finds
Simply seeing an online ad was enough to infect devices at Al Jazeera with spyware, according to a Citizen Lab report published on Thursday. The University of Toronto researchers say it is the first public technical proof of so-called zero-click spyware arriving through ads, in which victims did not have to tap or click anything. The […]
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India says AI agents under testing broke into firms’ live systems
AI agents being tested by AI firms broke into the live systems of several Indian companies and read private records, India’s cyber agency says. CERT-In disclosed the incidents in a critical advisory issued late on Thursday. The agency did not name the AI firms or the companies hit. The AI firms found the cases in their […]
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Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There’s a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of “AI personal assistants” like Meta’s Muse, you’re being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also […]
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