General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers.
Publish Date: 2/14/2025
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Two players who mostly worked independently are increasingly collaborative.
Publish Date: 2/13/2025
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There's yet another way to inject malicious prompts into chatbots.
Publish Date: 2/11/2025
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Chatbot maker partners with TSMC to manufacture custom AI chip, with plans for future iterations.
Publish Date: 2/10/2025
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Apple's defenses that protect data from being sent in the clear are globally disabled.
Publish Date: 2/6/2025
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Amount paid by victims to hackers declined by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Publish Date: 2/6/2025
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Vulnerability stripped MotW tag Windows uses to flag Internet-downloaded files.
Publish Date: 2/5/2025
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Supply chain attack targets developers using the Go programming language.
Publish Date: 2/5/2025
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22-year-old Andean Medjedovic of Canada could spend decades in prison if convicted.
Publish Date: 2/4/2025
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"Dell may be missing out on some great talent..."
Publish Date: 1/31/2025
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Side channel gives unauthenticated remote attackers access they should never have.
Publish Date: 1/28/2025
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"We loved VMware, and then when Broadcom bought ‘em, we hated ‘em.”
Publish Date: 1/27/2025
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J-Magic backdoor infected organizations in a wide array of industries.
Publish Date: 1/23/2025
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Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.
Publish Date: 1/23/2025
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Power grid in Central Europe uses unencrypted radio signals to add and shed loads.
Publish Date: 1/23/2025
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Bigger, badder DDoSes are flooding the Internet. Dismal IoT security is largely to blame.
Publish Date: 1/22/2025
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DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1 in several benchmarks.
Publish Date: 1/21/2025
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"Classic" plans without AI or price increases are only for current subscribers.
Publish Date: 1/16/2025
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File that neutered Secure Boot passed Microsoft's internal review process.
Publish Date: 1/16/2025
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While close US allies get unrestricted AI chip access, the rest of the world has numerical limits.
Publish Date: 1/13/2025
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