How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii's death registration system to fake his own death
Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang … Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange Mastodon: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @...
A researcher finds another flaw in Georgia's voter registration cancellation portal, which has suffered bugs that made submitting requests for Georgians trivial
The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name …
A look at Musk-backed America PAC's “Register to Vote” online campaign, which collects users' personal data in swing states, but does not help them register
https://www.cnbc.com/... (NYTimes had reported in July, “The group has taken pains to be secretive. Joe Lonsdale...played a key role in the group, recruiting many of his friends — including the Jimmy...
How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power
The East African country's identity card system has become integral to banking, voting — and targeting critics X: @privacymatters , @silvermanjacob , @oliviasolon , @oliviasolon , @rinachandran , and ...
Beeper says “Beeper Mini is back” but now requires users to log in with their Apple ID, as phone number registration doesn't work; Beeper makes the service free
Bug fixes and other improvements — We've created an updated version … Anurag Singh / Dexerto : Android iMessage app releases new update to sidestep Apple block Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines :...
The US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won an art competition, despite Adobe Photoshop alterations and 624+ text prompt revisions
thus nothing could be granted to him. [image] @glynntarrant : It's good to see Jason is still struggling with trying to copyright this AI generated image. Also, since he was and still is unwilling to ...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art
Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics. — In what might be a first … Tweets: @ccskeleton and @profjohanna Tweets: @ccskeleton : I hate this. They shoul...
Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022
Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022
U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.