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Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator

Enlarge (credit: FT Montage/EPA) Millions of US military emails have been misdirected to Mali through a “typo leak” that has exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords, and the travel…

Exploited 0-days, an incomplete fix, and a botched disclosure: Infosec snafu reigns

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Organizations big and small are once again scrambling to patch critical vulnerabilities that are already under active exploitation and cause the kind of breaches coveted by ransomware actors and…

Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cybernetic llama. (credit: Midjourney) On Tuesday, Meta announced Llama 2, a new open source family of AI language models notable for its commercial license, which means…

Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues

Enlarge (credit: Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images)) OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed due to concerns…

JumpCloud, an IT firm serving 200,000 orgs, says it was hacked by nation-state

Enlarge JumpCloud, a cloud-based IT management service that lists Cars.com, GoFundMe, and Foursquare among its 5,000 paying customers, experienced a security breach carried out by hackers working for a nation-state, the company said…

AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday and sank another 6.7% today

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Eugene Mymrin) AT&T's stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone…

Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of James Madison writing the US Constitution using AI. (credit: Midjourney / Benj Edwards) If you feed America's most important legal document—the US Constitution—into a tool designed to detect…

Fran Drescher: “We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, members of the SAG-AFTRA actors' union (and its president, actor Fran Drescher) announced their decision to go on strike in solidarity with the WGA strike that has…

Microsoft takes pains to obscure role in 0-days that caused email breach

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) On Friday, Microsoft attempted to explain the cause of a breach that gave hackers working for the Chinese government access to the email accounts of 25…

WordPress plugin installed on 1 million+ sites logged plaintext passwords

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) All-In-One Security, a WordPress security plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught three weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and storing…