Category: Shorts

What Luddites Got Right About the AI WGA Strike Amanda Seyfried opens up on the red carpet at the Met Gala about writers’ strike. Earlier this week, she posed a tough question: What did she think about the then-impending Writers Guild of America strike? At midnight that night, the WGA declared that the strike, the…

Gary Marcus used to call AI stupid—now he calls it dangerous As a journalist, I appreciate that Gary Marcus always makes time for a chat. His résumé makes him an unusual, though not unqualified, candidate as a spokes-expert in AI. But Marcus didn’t stick around at Uber, and he later founded a robotics firm, Robust…

Garage door controls are finally coming to the Google Home app Controls for smart garage doors are coming to the Google Home app. Previously only available in the Android version of the app, the company has now added them to the iOS and Android versions. The company notes that this feature will arrive at Google…

New Web-Inject Toolkit DrIBAN Targets Italian Corporate Banking Clients The Italian banking clients are the target of an ongoing financial fraud campaign that has been leveraging a new web-inject toolkit called drIBANbjan since at least 2019.Over the years, the operators behind drIBan have gotten more savvy at avoiding detection and developing effective social engineering strategies,…

AMD is reportedly working with Microsoft to expand into AI chips According to reports citing unnamed sources, Microsoft and AMD are working together to develop artificial intelligence processors. The report says that AMD is helping Microsoft develop its own in-house AI chips, codenamed Athena, and that both companies are helping each other develop new GPUs…

Third-party Scripts: The Challenge of Protecting Websites from Lack of Vis This article explores the challenges of protecting modern websites from third-party scripts and the security risks associated with a lack of visibility over these scripts. It uses examples to illustrate how web-monitoring solutions like Reflectiz can significantly enhance online visibility and provide clear mitigation…

N. Korean Hackers Using New Recon Tool ReconShark in Latest Cyberattacks The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky has been discovered using a new reconnaissance tool called ReconShark. The latest intrusion leverages geopolitical themes related to North Korea’s nuclear proliferation. SentinelOne reports that the findings add to growing evidence that the threat actor…

OpenAI’s regulatory troubles Regulatory troubles for OpenAI The Italian Data Protection Authority accuses OpenAI of violating EU data protection rules, and the company agrees to restrict access to the service in Italy while it tries to fix the problem. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Canada is evaluating privacy concerns under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic…

Packagist repository hacked: Dozens of PHP packages with 500 million compromised In a bug report, Packagist reveals that an attacker gained access to four inactive accounts on the platform to hijack over a dozen packages. The attacker forked each of the packages and replaced the composer’s description in composer.json with their own message, but did…

Android Malware Found on Google Play Store This is not the first time subscription malware has been found on the Google Play Store. Earlier this year, Kaspersky discovered and reported on a new Android app called Fleckpe. According to the anti-virus firm, this was the most downloaded malware ever on the Play Storeand it had…