Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 72 of The AI Fix, GPT-5’s “secret sauce” turns out to be phrases from adult websites, Irish police beg TikTokers to stop faking AI home intruders, Jeff Bezos pitches gigawatt data centers in space, OpenAI rolls out Agent Kit for drag-and-dro… Continue reading The AI Fix #72: The AI hype train, space data centers, and lifelike robot heads
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading BreachForums seized, but hackers say they will still leak Salesforce data
Your computer’s mouse might not be as innocent as it looks – and one ransomware crew has a crisis of conscience that nobody saw coming.
We talk about how something as ordinary as a web page could turn your mouse into a surprisingly nosey neighbour, … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #438: When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience
The Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters hacking group claims to have accessed data from around 40 customers of Salesforce, the cloud-based customer relationship management service, stealing almost one billion records.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading Salesforce data breach: what you need to know
In episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at t… Continue reading The AI Fix #71: Hacked robots and power-hungry AI
Discord has confirmed that users who contacted its customer support service have had their data stolen by hackers, who have attempted to extort a ransom from the company.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Discord users’ data stolen by hackers in third-party data breach
Beer lovers will be sobbing into their pints at the news that a ransomware attack has brought Japan’s largest brewer to its knees and left the country days away from running out of its most popular beverage.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Se… Continue reading Japan running dry: Ransomware attack leaves nation days away from Asahi beer shortage
Researchers uncovered a security flaw in Salesforce’s shiny new Agentforce. The vulnerability, dubbed “ForcedLeak”, let them smuggle AI-read instructions in via humble Web-to-Lead form… and ended up spilling data for the low, low price of five dollar… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #437: Salesforce’s trusted domain of doom
Most of the apps on your phone are talking to a server somewhere – sending and receiving data through messages sent through APIs, the underlying infrastructure that allows apps to communicate.
And here’s the problem – hackers have determined that th… Continue reading Your favourite phone apps might be leaking your company’s secrets
INTERPOL has announced the arrest of 260 alleged romance scammers, sextortionists, and online fraudsters as part of a multi-national operation across Africa.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading From fake lovers to sextortionists: 260 scammers arrested in Africa