A camera and its software labeled Bill Swearingen as a person. Then it suddenly wasn’t sure — all because of some weird pattern that he held up to disguise himself. I watched it happen from my seat at annual hacker convention Defcon. Swearingen, a longtime cybersecurity professional and founder of the Kansas City security community
A hacking and extortion gang has taken credit for a cyberattack and data breach at Uber Freight, the ride-sharing giant’s logistics subsidiary. A spokesperson for Uber Freight told Reuters, which first reported the incident, that there was no effect on its business operations and that its systems were running normally (The company did not immediately
The FBI is reportedly investigating how a North Korean was hired to work for a U.S. federal government agency. News of the investigation was first reported by Federal News Network, citing a senior FBI official speaking at a conference on July 28 in Washington, D.C.. The official confirmed to Federal News Network that the FBI
Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called
For more than a decade, the cybersecurity industry has been assigning names to different hacking groups. Some of them, like Fancy Bear, have crossed over into the mainstream because of their prominent hacks and memorable names. Others are only known within the cybersecurity industry. Oftentimes, even industry insiders can’t keep track. In part, that’s because
Framework, a company that makes modular repairable computers, said it has notified all of its customers that hackers stole their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses, due to an incident at a company that provides business intelligence. On Thursday, several Framework customers said on social media that they had received an email from
