Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 78 of The AI Fix, alien robot spiders invade Antarctica (or Facebook says they do), Mark prepares humanity for AI-powered fighter jets with loyalty issues, and Graham tries to work out why his AI-generated country music career hasn’t yet pai… Continue reading The AI Fix #78: The big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloud
International cybercrime-fighting agencies, co-ordinated by Europol, took down over 1000 servers and seized 20 domains earlier this month as part of Operation Endgame 3.0.
Their target? Three major malware platforms: the infostealer known as Rhadamant… Continue reading Operation Endgame disrupts Rhadamanthys information-stealing malware
After years of delays, the UK government has finally introduced landmark cybersecurity legislation that could reshape how British organisations defend against digital attacks.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading UK’s new cybersecurity bill takes aim at ransomware gangs and state-backed hackers
A technical manager at a Dutch wind farm operator has been sentenced after it was discovered he had secretly installed cryptocurrency mining rigs at two wind farm sites – just as the company was recovering from a ransomware attack.
Read more in my art… Continue reading Wind farm worker sentenced after turning turbines into a secret crypto mine
Stop the press – a company has actually said “sorry” after a data breach, and hotels are helping hackers phish their own guests.
We examine a refreshingly honest breach response (and why legacy systems are still going to ruin your week), dig into a na… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #444: We’re sorry. Wait, did a company actually say that?
In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it “Klaus”).
Also in this episode: In Russia a… Continue reading The AI Fix #77: Genome LLM makes a super-virus, and should AI decide if you live?
One of the sad truths about this world of seemingly endless hacks and data breaches is that companies just won’t apologise.
Even when customers, partners, and employees are left wondering when their data will be published by malicious hackers on the d… Continue reading A miracle: A company says sorry after a cyber attack – and donates the ransom to cybersecurity research
Tinder has got a plan to rummage through your camera roll, and Warren Buffett keeps popping up in convincing deepfakes dishing “number one investment tips.”
Meanwhile, will agentic AI replace your co-hosts before you can say “EDR for robots”? and wh… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #443: Tinder’s camera roll and the Buffett deepfake
Many of the world’s top artificial intelligence companies are making a simple but dangerous mistake. They are accidentally publishing their passwords and digital keys on GitHub, the popular code-sharing website that is used by millions of developers ev… Continue reading Leading AI companies accidentally leak their passwords and digital keys on GitHub – what you need to know
A Russian hacker accused of helping ransomware gangs break into businesses across the United States is set to plead guilty, according to recently filed federal court documents.
25-year-old Aleksey Olegovich Volkov worked as an “initial access broker… Continue reading Russian hacker admits helping Yanluowang ransomware infect companies