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That shield has cracks in it.

Microsoft confirms active exploitation of two Defender flaws. Europol dismantles a VPN service tied to ransomware gangs. A nine-year-old Linux kernel bug exposes SSH keys and password hashes. Cisco patches a critical Secure Workload vulnerability, while Drupal fixes a highly crit ...  Show more

The cost of trusting the extension ecosystem.

GitHub confirms a breach tied to a malicious VS Code extension. Anthropic fights a Pentagon blacklist as the White House weighs new AI security rules. Drupal scrambles to patch a critical flaw. Cisco Talos tracks the evolution of BadIIS malware-for-hire. Signal adds anti-phishing ...  Show more

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Darknet Diaries Presents: The Pentagon's Online War Against ISIS
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On Cyber this week we bring you an episode from the podcast Darknet Diaries by Jack Rhysider. In 2016, America went to war against ISIS at the head of an international coalition. The U.S. sent ships, soldiers, and material to the Middle East to fight off the Islamic State. It als ...  Show more

Cyberguerre: des conflits invisibles aux conséquences bien réelles
Le monde devant soi

Aucun coup n'est tiré, mais les dégâts peuvent être considérables et les conséquences, dramatiques. Souvent silencieuses, parfois spectaculaires, les cyberattaques se multiplient –qu'elles soient le fait de simples criminels, d'États souverains ou d'une collaboration des deux. ...

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Barking up the wrong Facebook page.
Hacking Humans

Mallory Sofastaii, consumer investigative reporter from WMAR TV, is discussing animal rescue organizations on Facebook pages being taken over by hackers. Listener George writes in to share how his bank is not doing enough to protect against fraud going on. Dave's story follows sc ...  Show more

AI Art is Powered by ISIS Executions and Non-Consenual Porn
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AI art has gotten wildly popular over the past year. Programs like Midjourney and Dall-E are generating incredible images and incredible controversy. But these programs don’t exist in a vacuum. AI’s require billions of images to learn how and what to draw. Where are they getting ...  Show more