Category: Shorts

Spotify’s AI music problem: bots love it Artificial streaming, or bot listening isn’t new. But now a lot of music companies are experimenting with it. The first big test case came last week when Spotify removed tens of thousands of songs created and uploaded to Spotify by an AI music generator called Boomy. There are…

The Exciting Future of Generative AI Google’s big pivot is, of course, largely fueled not by algorithms but by generative AI FOMO.And yet, unfettered AI language models are also silver-tongued agents of chaos. Even if the “AI doomers” warning about errant AI prove overblown, it will be interesting to watch how companies like Google and…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has found his replacement. Elon Musk has announced plans to appoint a new Twitter CEO, but hasn’t yet said who the new CEO will be. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the new chief executive will be NBC Universal advertising executive Linda Yaccarino. Twitter and NBCUniversal recently announced…

U.S. Government Disables Russia’s Most Sophisticated Snake Cyber Espionage The U.S. government announces the successful destruction of a Russian spy agency’s network using a malware called Snake. Snake, dubbed the most sophisticated cyber espionage tool, was the brainchild of a group called Turla. After stealing documents from infected computers, Turla exfiltrated them through a covert…

Mastermind of Twitter 2020 Hack Pleads Guilty and Faces up to 70 Years in Prison A U.K. national has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and fraud in the U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment of four individuals who allegedly perpetrated a July 2020 Twitter hack. The DoJ says that Patrick O’Connor bought access to one…

Why Honeytokens Are the Future of Cybersecurity The Future of Intrusion Detection The field of intrusion detection has remained under the radar for too long in the DevOps world. Honeytokens offers a proactive and simple solution to detect intrusions in the software supply chain as soon as possible. GitGuardian, a code security platform, recently launched…

Malware Campaign Targeting Central Asian Governments with Sophisticated DownEx DownEx malware leverages a previously unknown strain of malware dubbed DownEx. The HTA file, for its part, is designed to establish contact with a remote command-and-control (C2) server to retrieve a next-stage payload. Government organizations in Central Asia are the target of a sophisticated espionage campaign…

New Zero-Click Windows Vulnerability for NTLM Credential Theft Detailed This vulnerability, marked as CVE-2023-29324, is a zero-click vulnerability, meaning it can be triggered with no user interaction. It allows an attacker to craft a malicious URL that can sidestep internet security zone checks. Cybersecurity researchers have shared details about a now-patched security flaw in the…

Google Launches New Privacy, Safety, and Security Features Across Its Services At Google I/O, the company unveiled a slew of new privacy, safety, and security features. Among the new features, the most important one is an update to its Android operating system that allows users to better control location sharing through apps installed on their…

Encrypted Direct Messages Rolling Out to Verified Twitter Accounts First Twitter is officially beginning to roll out support for encrypted direct messages (DMs) on the platform, more than six months after its chief executive Elon Musk first teased the idea. DMs will appear as separate conversations in users’ inboxes and will be available to verified…