French gendarmes have been busy policing crypto crimes, but these aren’t the usual financial schemes, cons, and HODL! shenanigans one […]
Tag: Security
Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities
Ars has reached out to HackerOne for comment and will update this post if we get a response. “More tools […]
Microsoft now has AI agents that can change Windows 11 settings – should we be delighted or terrified?
Artificial intelligence is now all but unavoidable, and Microsoft is taking every opportunity to crowbar more AI features into Windows […]
Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users
A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group […]
Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee
A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into […]
Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked
Waltz was removed from his post late last week, with Trump nominating him to serve as ambassador to the United […]
Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack
Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious […]
Microsoft sees the future as passwordless; all new accounts will be password-free
It is now a year since Microsoft embraced passkeys for user accounts, and now the company is taking things further. […]
Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost
Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive […]
Why MFA is getting easer to bypass and what to do about it
These sorts of adversary-in-the-middle attacks have grown increasingly common. In 2022, for instance, a single group used it in a […]