A digital traffic display on one of Los Angeles’ busiest freeways was hacked to promote a menacing website targeting enemies of Iran’s Islamic regime — a chilling breach that has put Iranian dissidents in the city on edge. Passersby spotted the sign on the 405 Freeway near Persian Square in Westwood blaring the web address...Read More
In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening. A three-person security team at startup Hacktron AI carried out the attack as part of an OpenAI bug-bounty...Read More
by Benjamin Decker In the movies, someone gets into your account by typing very fast while a progress bar fills up. In life, nobody types anything. Your login was written down somewhere else months ago, sold in a batch of several million, and tried against a dozen services until one of them opened. That gap...Read More
Chithari Haribabu, recently out on bail, was killed by unknown assailants (Visuals credit: X) HYDERABAD: About six months after he was arrested for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, who was also a YouTuber, Chithari Haribabu was hacked to death by a group of unidentified men at Rajarajendra (RR) Centre in Nizamabad on Thursday.He had been...Read More
Chithari Haribabu, recently released on bail, was hacked to death by unknown assailants. HYDERABAD: About six months after he was arrested for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, who was also a YouTuber, Chithari Haribabu was hacked to death by a group of unidentified men at Rajarajendra (RR) Centre in Nizamabad on Thursday. He had been...Read More
Jan van Eck spoke at Future Proof in Huntington Beach, Calif. The asset manager’s CEO Jan van Eck said that the attackers were “many layers away” from any client assets. Asset manager VanEck has joined the list of companies in the wealth management industry that have had to contend with a cybersecurity headache, according to...Read More
An unprecedented number of Apple customers have reported receiving a recent threat notification alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, according to experts who investigate these types of incidents. Several people publicly and privately reported receiving Apple’s spyware alerts over the weekend, after Apple sent out a new wave of notifications on Friday...Read More
A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations, according to a federal regulatory filing on Wednesday. This is the latest health tech giant to face a cyberattack in recent weeks. The Massachusetts-based company, which makes medically implanted devices like pacemakers and defibrillators, confirmed in a...Read More
The beautiful thing about Hacks is that over five seasons, it knew what it was and stayed what it was. It began as a two-hander starring two very unsentimental broads and stayed a two-hander betwe– okay, well, hang on. (tap to view stories) Yes, Hacks is, and was always meant to be a cross-generational platonic...Read More
A hacking group has taken credit for a breach at market intelligence provider Klue that allowed hackers to steal reams of data from the company’s corporate customers, which include some of the biggest names in cybersecurity. Vancouver-based Klue, which lets companies conduct market research by connecting their data to its systems, said on Friday that...Read More
