More than 1,150 cases have been referred to the National Crime Agency (NCA)’s Cyber Choices scheme in the last eight years – nearly 600 of those were in the last three years. Authorities warn teenage hacking groups are playing an increasingly prominent role in serious cyber-attacks. Young, English-speaking hackers have been linked to attacks on...Read More
Kanpur: A student who hacked the websites of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) and IIT Madras after being denied admission in IIT-K’s newly launched Bachelor of Cyber Security programme may get another chance to join the institute, which is considering assessing his technical skills instead of pursuing legal action. The student allegedly left a...Read More
The FBI classifying a breach of its own surveillance systems as a “Major Cyber Incident” made headlines for about 48 hours. Then the news cycle moved on. That was a mistake. Most coverage treated this as an embarrassing but isolated event — another government agency failing to secure its own network. That framing misses what...Read More
A pit in my stomach formed last night on the train as I read Hugging Face’s latest blog post on how its servers got hacked by OpenAI’s models in early July. I had printed out the 23-page report for the ride since service can be spotty underground. Seeing the story laid out in physical form...Read More
This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. The nightmare began with an annoyance as benign and commonplace as a housefly. “Hi there Matt,” the July 11, 2024, email read. “We received a message from you earlier today through our support page related to a changed password on your account...Read More
UPDATE 7/21: The Hugging Face breach has been traced to several AI models breaking out of containment at OpenAI and using a zero-day vulnerability to access the open internet. Original Story 7/20:Hugging Face, an online platform that hosts AI models, has suffered a breach that apparently came from an autonomous AI program. The New York-based...Read More
The AI company Anthropic says it has found three cases where its artificial intelligence programs left testing environments, accessed the internet and hacked into real companies. This comes after competitor, OpenAI, reported a similar incident last week that raised concerns about AI safety. In the OpenAI case, the artificial intelligence models found a way to...Read More
Wheel of Fortune fans were impressed by a contestant’s fast solve. They said he had “hacked” the game before his $70,000 win. Randy Bird, a nonprofit data analyst who loves spreadsheets and is an amateur photographer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, played against Sarah Crisman, from Los Angeles, California, and Diego Wyatt, from New York City, New York,...Read More
Crypto hackers, thieves, and scammers tend to employ trending narratives in their malicious schemes, the latest being crypto regulation. Scammers have been spreading fake letters from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and have hacked Senator Lummis’ X account for meme coin shilling. IRS warns of falsified letters targeting crypto holders On July 30, the...Read More
A VPN isn’t a silver bullet. It can’t guarantee total security or anonymity online. Instead, it is a tool that allows you to hide your browsing data from your internet service provider (ISP), adopt a virtual IP address, and access geo-restricted content. However, there are still a lot of misconceptions about what a VPN can...Read More
