Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software

Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the ...

NordVPN Hack Claim — Is Your Data Secure? Here’s What Really Happened

NordVPN, which has a 17% VPN market share in the U.S., has issued a security update following claims of a hack attack and ...
PCMag

Cyber Fidget Is Part Fidget Toy, Part Educational Hacking Tool, and I Want One

What happens when you combine an Arduino-based microcontroller with a palm-sized aluminum box and clicky buttons? A fidget ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

Whisper hack reveals how robots can be seized in seconds

A whisper should never be enough to take control of a six-figure humanoid robot That was until the Chinese scientists at ...
Wired

2 Men Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Hacker Group Likely Trained in a Cisco ‘Academy’

Cisco’s Networking Academy, a global training program designed to educate IT students in the basics of IT networks and cybersecurity, proudly touts its accessibility to participants around the world: ...
techtimes

Signs of Hacking: How to Know If Your Computer Is Compromised and Essential Cybersecurity Tips

Spot signs of hacking early: Detect if computer compromised with key indicators, tools, and cybersecurity tips to secure your system fast. Pixabay, pixelcreatures Rising cyber threats make early ...
IEEE

Prompt Override: LLM Hacking as Serious Game

Abstract: In this demo paper we present Prompt Override, a serious game in which players engage in prompt-based hacking challenges by manipulating the system prompt of a large language model (LLM) to ...
Ars Technica

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...
The New York Times

A Swath of Bank Customer Data Was Hacked. The F.B.I. Is Investigating.

SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase. By Rob Copeland Stacy Cowley ...
Wired

Security News This Week: A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and Targets

Plus: State-sponsored AI hacking is here, Google hosts a CBP face recognition app, and more of the week’s top security news. The United States issued a seizure warrant to Starlink this week related to ...
WRAL

Former US defense contractor employee pleads guilty to selling hacking tools to buyer in Russia

(CNN) — An Australian man on Wednesday pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to steal powerful hacking tools from a US defense contractor and sell them to a buyer in Russia, the Justice ...
CNN

Former US defense contractor employee pleads guilty to selling hacking tools to buyer in Russia

An Australian man on Wednesday pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to steal powerful hacking tools from a US defense contractor and sell them to a buyer in Russia, the Justice Department said.