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FISA: What to know about the government's key spy powers on the verge of expiration
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (565+ words) (CNN) " The deadline to renew a powerful surveillance law has exposed deep divisions in the Republican Party and left US national security officials scrambling as the potential for blind spots in intelligence collection becomes an ever increasing possibility. For months,…...
US cyber team hasn't been activated yet to protect midterm elections from foreign meddling
9+ hour, 12+ min ago (456+ words) By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — For the first election cycle in years, US military and intelligence officials have not yet activated a specialized team...
Open AI wants to put its most powerful model at all levels of government to fight hackers
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (191+ words) By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — Open AI is expanding access to its most advanced AI models to help businesses and governments shore up their cyber...
The "groundbreaking" case of the cyber experts who allegedly broke bad and worked with criminals
1+ week, 1+ day ago (745+ words) (CNN) " US companies in the retail, hospitality and medical sectors trusted Angelo Martino to negotiate with hackers who were trying to extort them. Instead, he made the extortion worse, federal prosecutors allege. Martino allegedly accumulated at least $10 million in assets,…...
CEO of blacklisted Anthropic and White House hold "productive" discussions on AI
1+ week, 5+ day ago (557+ words) By Hadas Gold, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) " Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited the White House on Friday for a high-stakes meeting with the president's top adviser, while his AI company battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its Claude…...
Two Americans sentenced to prison for North Korean tech worker scheme
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (542+ words) (CNN) " Two Americans have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles in a covert scheme that defrauded major US companies while generating $5 million for the North Korean regime, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Zhenxing "Danny" Wang, 39, and Kejia…...
Un hacker presuntamente accedi" a una de las supercomputadoras de China y ahora busca vender los datos robados
3+ week, 1+ day ago (960+ words) Por Isaac Yee, CNN Un hacker inform'tico habr'a "presuntamente" robado una enorme cantidad de datos confidenciales, incluidos documentos de defensa altamente clasificados y planos de misiles, de una supercomputadora estatal de China, en lo que podr'a constituir el mayor robo…...
A hacker has allegedly breached one of China's supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data
3+ week, 1+ day ago (960+ words) By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) " A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data " including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics " from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data…...
Anthropic's latest AI model could let hackers carry out attacks faster than ever. It wants companies to put up defenses first
3+ week, 2+ day ago (635+ words) (CNN) " Anthropic will make the code of its new AI model available to some of the world's biggest cybersecurity and software firms in an effort to slow the arms race ignited by AI in the hands of hackers, Anthropic said…...
Anthropic's next model could be a "watershed moment' for cybersecurity. Experts say that could also be a concern
3+ week, 6+ day ago (746+ words) By Hadas Gold, Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) " The next wave of AI-powered cybersecurity attacks will be like nothing we've seen before. That's the message AI company Anthropic sent in a leaked blog post last week, in which it warned that…...