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  1. No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked

    If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong.

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  2. Okta hit by another breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor

    Threat actor gained access to vendor's IT environment and exfiltrated personal data.

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  3. This tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop

    No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth.

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  4. “Catastrophic” AI harms among warnings in declaration signed by 28 nations

    "Bletchley Declaration" sums up first day of UK's international AI Safety Summit.

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  5. Inserted AI-generated Microsoft poll about woman’s death rankles The Guardian

    Speculative AI news poll presented three choices: Murder, accident, or suicide.

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  6. Windows CE, Microsoft’s stunted middle child, reaches end of support at 26 years

    From netbooks and PDAs to ATMs, voting kiosks, and ungainly presidential phones.

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  7. “This vulnerability is now under mass exploitation.” Citrix Bleed bug bites hard

    By some estimates, 20,000 devices have already been hacked.

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  8. Biden issues sweeping executive order that touches AI risk, deepfakes, privacy

    Order details US admin's approach to AI safety, media authenticity, job loss, and more.

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  9. Microsoft profiles new threat group with unusual but effective practices

    Octo Tempest employs tactics that many of its targets aren't prepared for.

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  10. People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality

    Long mobile conversations with the AI assistant using AirPods echo the sci-fi film.

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  11. iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise

    “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14.

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  12. Pro-Russia hackers target inboxes with 0-day in webmail app used by millions

    Previously unknown XSS in Roundcube let Winter Vivern steal government emails.

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  1. University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade

    Altered images could destroy AI model training efforts that scrape art without consent.

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  2. Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools

    Repair advocates say Apple's move is beneficial, but also strategic.

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  3. Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more

    iLeakage is practical and requires minimal resources. A patch isn't (yet) available.

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  4. “Do not open robots,” warns Oregon State amid college food delivery bomb prank

    OSU officials isolate food robots after bomb threat, later resolved with an arrest.

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  5. US surprises Nvidia by speeding up new AI chip export ban

    Nvidia tried to end-run restrictions with new designs, but US govt said not so fast.

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  6. 1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account

    1Password CTO says investigation found no compromise of user data or sensitive systems.

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  7. Stanford researchers challenge OpenAI, others over AI transparency in new report

    Researchers say "most transparent" AI model scores only 54% on their index.

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  8. Eureka: With GPT-4 overseeing training, robots can learn much faster

    GPU-based physics simulator speeds up reality by "1,000x" while GPT-4 calls the shots.

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  9. Feel-good story of the week: Two ransomware gangs meet their demise

    One is fatally hacked, the other shut down in international police dragnet.

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  10. Okta says hackers breached its support system and viewed customer files

    Hackers obtained valid credentials, but Okta doesn't say how.

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  11. Thanks to AI, the future of programming may involve YELLING IN ALL CAPS

    Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications.

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  12. RIP to my 8-port Unifi switch after years and years of Texas outdoor temps

    Turns out that only lightning could kill the otherwise-unkillable US-8-150W.

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  1. The latest high-severity Citrix vulnerability under attack isn’t easy to fix

    If you run a Netscaler ADC or Gateway, assume it's compromised and take action... fast.

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  2. There’s a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses

    New technique produces lots of bitflips and could one day help form an attack.

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  3. Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine

    Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing lookalike.

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  4. At TED AI 2023, experts debate whether we’ve created “the new electricity”

    Is AI going to replace us all, or is it just humanity's newest tool?

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  5. AI chatbots can infer an alarming amount of info about you from your responses

    This troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.

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  6. Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

    Financial risk too great for dev working "in my spare time to help others."

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  7. “Cisco buried the lede.” >10,000 network devices backdoored through unpatched 0-day

    An unknown threat actor is exploiting the vulnerability to create admin accounts.

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  8. Google will shield AI users from copyright challenges, within limits

    New policy covers training data and AI output—but no mention of Bard.

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  9. Biggest DDoSes of all time generated by protocol 0-day in HTTP/2

    More than 8 years after the adoption of HTTP/2, DDoSers devise rapid reset attack.

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  10. Adobe launches new symbol to tag AI-generated content—but will anyone use it?

    New icon, metadata seek to illuminate origins of content—AI-generated or otherwise.

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  11. CD-indexing cue files are the core of a serious Linux remote code exploit

    Yet another tiny, crucial piece of volunteer software begets a big problem.

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  12. Adobe’s AI image generators get beefy updates, including vector graphics

    Firefly 2 improves detail, Firefly Vector generates scalable vectors from a prompt.

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