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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver's licenses open for anyone to see
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (270+ words) Memorial Day tech sales The hotel check-in system, called Tabiq, is maintained by the Japan-based tech startup Reqrea. According to its website, Tabiq is used in several hotels across Japan and relies on facial recognition and document scanning to check…...
MDASH is Microsoft's new 'agentic security system' for discovering software vulnerabilities
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (321+ words) Yahoo Tech There are plenty of fears of AI being used to exploit software vulnerabilities as it becomes more capable, but it also has the potential to be used in a defensive capacity. Microsoft is exploring this area of AI…...
Google Catches First AI Zero-Day Exploit: A Warning Shot for Crypto Security?
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (390+ words) Google's Threat Intelligence Group caught a criminal hacking crew using an AI-built zero-day exploit live in the wild for the first time, neutralizing a planned mass attack before it could trigger. The finding sits within a wider report showing that…...
Developers Warned As Fake Claude Code Installer Attacks Confirmed
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (101+ words) Beware the fake Claude Code installer threat. FORBES | By Davey Winder'Significant Threat'Billions Of Gmail Users At Risk From Google Security Gaffe People who search for "install Claude code" and then select a sponsored result find themselves on what appears to…...
Hackers Used AI to Build a Zero-Day Exploit That Bypasses Two-Factor Authentication: Google
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (396+ words) Cybercriminals used an AI model to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open-source web administration tool, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group. The report comes as researchers and governments warn that AI models are accelerating cyberattacks by…...
The best VPN deals you can grab right now
1+ week, 2+ day ago (949+ words) A VPN is worth the money. You can't put a dollar value on true privacy " but even without that, a good VPN service helps your finances by stretching your streaming dollars, unlocking international dea and letting you bank online without…...
Faster, Free'Google Offers Windows Users A PC Upgrade
1+ week, 2+ day ago (456+ words) Microsoft is changing Windows Update. For the first time ever, the Secure Boot certificates first issued in 2011 start expiring in June. Microsoft will automatically install new certificates on most PCs. But for hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users, there are…...
Google Chrome silently downloads 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model
1+ week, 2+ day ago (548+ words) Yahoo Tech Google Chrome has been downloading a 4 GB AI model file onto user devices without consent, according to a report by Alexander Hanff, a Swedish computer scientist and lawyer who writes under the name "That Privacy Guy." Stored under…...
Ubuntu's services are back up and running after a prolonged DDo S attack
1+ week, 4+ day ago (191+ words) Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has confirmed that services are back up and running following a major DDo S attack that left some of its infrastructure, including websites and repos, unavailable for five days. "At this stage, we have implemented…...
Bitcoin, Ethereum 'Q-Day' Quantum Threat Could Arrive as Soon as 2030: Report
1+ week, 4+ day ago (528+ words) A sweeping new technical report warns that the cryptographic foundations securing trillions of dollars in digital assets could be broken by quantum computers within the next four to seven years'and that the blockchain industry is dangerously unprepared for the transition…...