Saint’s Hours Drone video footage from the Francisco Police Department exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular and momentous urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google this week demanding that the tech giants remove from their app stores 13 AI-nudifying “face-swapping”
“Your data is private. Period,” period tracker Stardust says on its website. As new research from Mozilla found, some users may find that claim overstated. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health information with third-party analytics company RudderStack. This data
Police in the United Kingdom said Thursday that the imprisonment of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport for London (TfL), the government body that oversees the UK capital’s public transport
For much of my computer science career, I viewed software vulnerability detection as a craft. The best researchers combine technical skill with intuition: the ability to know whether a software bug was a minor bug or a sign of a more serious vulnerability. For decades, machines found bugs and humans decided which ones mattered. Now,
On Tuesday, Microsoft fixed an all-time high number of security bugs across its product lines, largely due to using AI to help the company and outside researchers discover bugs. Among the vulnerabilities fixed was one for the remastered version of the classic 25-year-old war strategy video game Age of Empires II. According to security researchers,
Microsoft this week released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office and other technology product lines, citing the use of artificial intelligence to help discover code vulnerabilities. The technology and cloud giant issued patches for 570 security flaws on Tuesday as part of its scheduled monthly release of fixes, which security researchers have