4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (389+ words) More than 153,000 students and staff from four tertiary institutions in Hong Kong have been affected by a data breach on the online learning management platform Canvas, an investigation by the city's privacy watchdog has found. Nearly four months after the…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (422+ words) As policymakers grapple with implications of AI, much of the debate has focused on ensuring that regulation keeps pace with innovation. Yet, regulation is only one part of the equation. An equally important policy instrument that must keep pace with…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (435+ words) French government systems came under attack by hackers who stole information on hundreds of thousands of households and private businesses in June and July, notably from the tax authority. Here's what we know about the latest cyberattacks, and what the…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (1044+ words) The Trump Administration announced a new program on hacking back last week, allowing United States companies to hack back in some circumstances in cooperation with United States officials. The program is premised on some interesting theories about the scope of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (437+ words) Hackers used a team of autonomous artificial intelligence agents to infiltrate Taiwanese government systems, compromise dozens of accounts and steal thousands of personnel records, in what cybersecurity experts believe could be the first publicly disclosed fully autonomous cyberattack against government…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (469+ words) The amount of data breaches reported in the first half of the year is higher than the one prior, with AI playing a significant role in the increase, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (277+ words) WhatsApp is adding a new “Scam Alert” feature that checks whether people really are who they claim. The new tool uses artificial intelligence to check through messages from people who aren’t in a user’s contacts. It looks at “conversational structure…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (410+ words) Overseas hackers used artificial intelligence agents to help carry out a wave of cyberattacks targeting Taiwanese government agencies in July, the island's digital affairs ministry said Thursday. Taiwan has previously blamed Chinese hackers for carrying out most of the millions…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (737+ words) A Boeing 737's flight-management systems can be tampered with in under a minute using a small hardware implant connected to an exposed maintenance port, security researchers have found, raising fresh questions over how brief physical access to aircraft is treated…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (524+ words) North Korea has quietly built a hidden workforce inside American companies, using stolen identities, artificial intelligence and U.S.-based accomplices to land remote jobs and funnel hundreds of millions of dollars back to Pyongyang. A yearlong Wall Street Journal investigation offers…...