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Google faces liability for AI-generated claims. Washington pauses public AI model assessments. Anthropic ships a safer AI model. OpenAI disrupts influence operations. Ransomware operators get a powerful new backdoor. Urgent patches land for Ivanti and Veeam. PyPI supply chain att ...  Show more

Patch Tuesday goes big. Congress looks to harden critical infrastructure. A new Windows zero-day drops. Mobile AI creates security blind spots. AI agents fall for phishing. Browser extensions expose millions. Spammers hide behind Google Cloud Storage. CISA crowns its cyber champi ...  Show more

Two unsavoury websites suffer from a worrying leak, scientists are going animal crackers over AI, and the BBC is intercepting scammers' live phone calls with victims.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer secu ...  Show more

Our 67th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Cybersecurity has changed dramatically over the past 10,000 days. In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton speaks with Haider Pasha, Chief Security Officer for EMEA & LATAM at Palo Alto Networks, about how the field has evolved and what’s coming next. From his early e ...  Show more

A Hong Kong employee sits through what seems like a routine video call with colleagues and the CFO. Everything looks normal. Then comes the urgent wire transfer request. $25 million later, the horrifying truth emerges: every face on that call was fake, generated by AI.

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