General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages

The weakness creates the possibility of an insider or hacker adding rogue members.
Publish Date: 5/7/2025
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VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

Broadcom says it may audit VMware users.
Publish Date: 5/7/2025
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Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users

The verdict is a major victory for opponents of exploit sellers.
Publish Date: 5/7/2025
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Data centers say Trump’s crackdown on renewables bad for business, AI

Without renewables, it's nearly impossible to meet growing power demand from AI.
Publish Date: 5/6/2025
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Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

Fake image-generating app allowed man to download 1.1TB of Disney-owned data.
Publish Date: 5/6/2025
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OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure

The nonprofit board will retain control, but now investor billions hang in the balance.
Publish Date: 5/5/2025
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Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack

Attack that started in April and remains ongoing runs malicious code on visitors' devices.
Publish Date: 5/5/2025
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Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost

The move is part of an industry-wide push for users to adopt passkeys.
Publish Date: 5/2/2025
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Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports

New feature searches hundreds of sources to build a document—but is it accurate?
Publish Date: 5/2/2025
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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
Publish Date: 5/1/2025
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Why MFA is getting easier to bypass and what to do about it

Why multifactor authentication based on one-time passwords and push notifications fails.
Publish Date: 5/1/2025
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Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.

Researchers say the behavior amounts to a persistent backdoor.
Publish Date: 4/30/2025
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Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi

Hackers can run their code on AirPlay devices thanks to a collection of bugs known as AirBorne.
Publish Date: 4/30/2025
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The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4

A look back at GPT-4's legacy as OpenAI pulls the pioneering 2023 AI model from ChatGPT.
Publish Date: 4/30/2025
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Trump admin lashes out as Amazon considers displaying tariff costs on its sites

"This was never approved and is not going to happen," says Amazon.
Publish Date: 4/29/2025
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AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why.

LLM-produced code could make us much more vulnerable to supply-chain attacks.
Publish Date: 4/29/2025
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ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

ChatGPT will now recommend products to be bought offsite—but no sponsored ads just yet.
Publish Date: 4/28/2025
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Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk

Short seller publishes report detailing allegations about Backblaze's financials.
Publish Date: 4/28/2025
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iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

New ChoiceJacking attack allows malicious chargers to steal data from phones.
Publish Date: 4/28/2025
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