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The Secrets of the US Spyware King
Spyware maker Paragon Solutions has long positioned itself as the good guy in an industry seemingly filled with bad ones, vowing to…
Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite in an attempt to obtain email backups and authentication credentials…
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
In February, Google announced a solution: Merkle Trees. These hierarchical data structures use cryptographic hashes and other math to verify the contents of…
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Choke Points Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost Lives. How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied West…
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the…
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting…
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and…
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows and Mac…
There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before
The forgery attack drops these levels to 265, 290, and 2119 for 1024-, 2048-, and 4096-bit keys respectively. These levels may further…