“This isn’t ‘The Matrix’”
Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was unexpectedly added to a Signal group chat with 17 U.S. government officials who were discussing…
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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to…
Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less important data to be compressed more aggressively. That is then fed into the codec, and…
Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII
Trustwave’s Spider Labs, meanwhile, said the sample of LDAP credentials provided by rose87168 “reveals a substantial amount of sensitive IAM data associated with a user within an Oracle Cloud multi-tenant environment. The data includes personally…
Again and again, NSO Group’s customers keep getting their spyware operations caught
On Thursday, Amnesty International published a new report detailing attempted hacks against two Serbian journalists, allegedly carried out with NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus. The two journalists, who work for the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network…
Mozilla patches Firefox bug ‘exploited in the wild’, similar to bug attacking Chrome
Mozilla has fixed a security bug in its Firefox for Windows browser that was “being exploited in the wild.” In a brief update, Mozilla said it updated the browser to Firefox version 136.0.4 after identifying…
Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini
The resulting dataset, which reflected a distribution of attack categories similar to the complete dataset, showed an attack success rate of 65 percent and 82 percent against Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.0 Pro, respectively.…
Signal downloads spike in the U.S. and Yemen amid government scandal
The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. High-ranking officials in the Trump administration, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, communicated the plans for an attack…
OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke
OpenAI claims several key improvements: users can refine images through conversation while maintaining visual consistency; the system can analyze uploaded images and incorporate their details into new generations; and it offers stronger photorealism—although what constitutes…
NHS vendor Advanced to pay £3M fine following 2022 ransomware attack
NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £3 million ($3.8 million) in fines for not implementing basic security measures before it suffered a ransomware attack in 2022, the U.K.’s data protection regulator has confirmed. It’s…