Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable ‘Backdoors’ Early in August, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and then put a yellow Post-it onto a stop sign outside the Brooklyn building in which he works. When he and two colleagues showed a photo of […]
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Violent Alt-Right Chats Could Be Key to Charlottesville Lawsuits
Violent Alt-Right Chats Could Be Key to Charlottesville Lawsuits In the weeks leading up to the Charlottesville, Virginia, white nationalist march that left one counter-protestor dead, organizers discussed inserting screws into flagpoles to be used as potential weapons and concealing firearms in the case of a […]
Facebook Creepiness, AccuWeather Tracking, and More Security News This Week
Facebook Creepiness, AccuWeather Tracking, and More Security News This Week In a refreshing change of pace, this week’s security news included little to no escalation of nuclear rhetoric. Let’s count that as a win! Among quite a few losses. Digital financial services provider Enigma, for instance, […]
Microsoft PowerShell Is a Hot Hacker Target, But Its Defenses Are Improving
Microsoft PowerShell Is a Hot Hacker Target, But Its Defenses Are Improving The Trickbot malware that targets bank customers. Password harvesters like Mimikatz. “Fileless malware” attacks. All three are popular hacking tools and techniques, but they’re unconnected except for one trait: They all rely in part […]
All the Ways US Government Cybersecurity Falls Flat
All the Ways US Government Cybersecurity Falls Flat Data breaches and hacks of US government networks, once novel and shocking, have become a problematic fact of life over the last few years. So it makes sense that a cybersecurity analysis released today placed the government at […]
Your Handy Guide to the Many Tech Anxieties of Our Time
Your Handy Guide to the Many Tech Anxieties of Our Time Our tech-enabled lives are ruthlessly efficient, endlessly entertaining—and completely panic-inducing. Whether you’ve become uncomfortably dependent on your digital assistant (heyyy, Alexa), addicted to the deluge of political tweetstorms, paralyzed by phishing attacks, or terrified of […]
Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots for Spying and Sabotage
Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots for Spying and Sabotage [embedded content] The entire corpus of science fiction has trained humanity to fear the day when helpful household and industrial robots turn against it, in a Skynet-style uprising. But a much more near-term threat lurks in the […]
Charlottesville, HBO Hacks, and More Security News This Week
Charlottesville, HBO Hacks, and More Security News This Week The terrible events of Charlottesville, VA, last weekend caused several parties to reevaluate. The so-called alt-right attempted to disown the rally online despite promoting it heavily in advance. Tech companies finally used some of the tools at […]
Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover
Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover They say April is the cruelest month, but HBO may beg to differ. The company kicked off August with an apparently massive breach of its servers, in which hackers pilfered everything from full […]
Verizon Takes Fourth Amendment Stand in Carpenter V. United States
Verizon Takes Fourth Amendment Stand in Carpenter V. United States Fourteen of the biggest US tech companies filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Monday supporting more rigorous warrant requirements for law enforcement seeking certain cell phone data, such as location information. In the statement, […]