Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests
- Europol, Eurojust say more than 100 attack servers disrupted — Two arrested in France and Spain, warrants out for 6 Russians
Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers
Hertz and other agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and A.I. to flag even tiny blemishes, and customers aren't happy. Bluesky: @unxpctd.xyz and @quinnypig.com Blues...
Ookla: Starlink use rose by 35% above average in Spain and Portugal on April 28, as a widespread electricity outage exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms networks
Widespread electricity outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms — Spanish and Portuguese mobile … X: @redskullpro and @imnotharryjames X: @redskullpro : In Spain...electri...
Sources and business records detail how Barcelona has emerged as an unlikely hub for spyware companies, raising concerns from digital rights groups
Toward the end of 2023, an Israeli security researcher from Tel Aviv said that he was approached on LinkedIn with an opportunity to work abroad with “good pay.” Bluesky: @zackwhittaker , @rondeibert ,...
How Spain relies on the VioGén algorithm to score the likelihood of recurring domestic violence and decide protection measures, with at times fatal consequences
Spain has become reliant on an algorithm to score how likely a domestic violence victim is to be abused again … X: @tdietterich , @stevebholt , @ichbinilya , @noisejockey , @ichbinilya , @jonathancohn...
Analysis: at 2023's end, 48% of the top news websites in the US, the UK, and eight others had blocked OpenAI's crawler and 24% had blocked Google's AI crawler
In this factsheet we describe the proportion of top news websites in ten countries that block AI (artificial intelligence) crawlers. X: @carnage4life , @risj_oxford , @risj_oxford , @risj_oxford , @ri...
The FBI, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia seize ransomware gang ALPHV's dark web leak website; the US also seized “several websites” run by ALPHV
An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.
Elon Musk offering no timeline for Twitter's “temporary” reading limits, and CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, may give Meta a perfectly timed launch for Threads
With users in uproar over restrictions and outages … Jody Godoy / Reuters : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say BBC : Confusion at Twitter continues over Elon Musk's twe...
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests
The European Union's fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what's to come for AI services. LinkedIn: Yash Thakker . Mastodon: @Woodchaz@social.vivaldi.net . Tweets: @adamthierer and @gonnetpedro LinkedI...
Public records and a 2019 version of its user guide show just how invasive AnyVision's facial recognition software can be; AnyVision's customers include schools
One school using the software saw that a student's face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week Tweets: @evan_greer , @evan_greer , @jessedamiani , @themarkup , and @alfredwkng Tweets: Evan...