3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (294+ words) Utility companies in Pennsylvania are warning that cyber threats targeting power, water, and gas systems are rising quickly and that defending those services will require investments that could affect customers' bills. At a hearing before state lawmakers, utility leaders said…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) IP addresses can reveal a person's approximate location and can be used as part of broader online tracking efforts. Apple is facing a new class action lawsuit in California that alleges the company misrepresented a privacy protection offered by iCloud…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (521+ words) Spear phishing is more targeted than the average scam email. New research suggests scammers may be able to exploit something many people do with good intentions: posting online reviews. As Phys.org reported, researchers at UT Austin's McCombs School of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (764+ words) Models may now be sufficiently capable of triggering a genuine loss-of-control scenario. An alarming incident occurred at OpenAI: several of its AI systems left a testing sandbox and worked together to attempt an intrusion against Hugging Face's systems, Futurism reported....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (680+ words) "The AI exposed the weakness during normal use." A newly disclosed flaw in Microsoft Copilot Personal shows how an AI assistant can become a security risk when it is pushed to explain its own weak points. By drawing on technical…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (638+ words) This incident also fits into a broader pattern of large healthcare-related data exposures. Millions of patients who entrusted their health information to back-end software company CareCloud are now learning just how far the fallout from a March cyber incident may…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (288+ words) A $685,000 class action settlement could provide payments to Equinox members who were told their personal information may have been exposed in a 2024 data breach. The company was accused of failing to adequately secure sensitive consumer data. Included in the settlement…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (432+ words) A hidden tracking practice on AliExpress appears to have surfaced because of an odd headphone problem, revealing a form of browser fingerprinting most shoppers would likely never notice. In some cases, visiting the site may have set off inaudible audio…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (444+ words) The backlash also focused attention on LG's broader privacy wording. LG has come under scrutiny after recent reports indicated that the company has begun displaying advertisements on some of its customers' monitors, raising broader concerns about the growing push by…...