The White House may be at risk of cyber attacks with the recent exodus of at least a dozen senior officials from the cyber security team and the removal of duties and security privileges of those remaining.
Adding to the string of privacy issues, Anonymous promoted a claim that the reverse engineered Tiktok app was found to quietly vacuum up every bit of personal information that it can access.
Kaspersky discovered about 100,000 new banking trojans seeking to steal users' credentials and financial data, warning about increased sophistication of mobile malware and attacks.
CISA warns about the fast flux DNS evasion technique used by ransomware gangs and state-sponsored threat actors to shield cybercrime infrastructure, threatening national security.
A class action suit brought by Meta shareholders that sought $8 billion from its current and former leaders has been settled. The suit was filed as recompense for the $5 billion in fines and added legal costs the company was hit with over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.”
White House “Blueprint for AI Bill of Rights” Creates a Potential Path to Legal AI Ethics Guidelines
The White House AI bill of rights stipulates five guiding principles meant to govern design and deployment: system safety, protection from discrimination, data privacy, notice and explanation, and human alternatives.
Democracy is at risk from companies like Facebook that behave like digital gangsters. And, in fact, there are many similarities between Facebook’s behavior and recent violations and the way that “traditional gangsters” act.
The WeChat privacy questions stem from numerous users posting logins from unknown devices to their accounts, sometimes at very late and odd hours. Users are speculating about Chinese law enforcement inspecting accounts using some sort of a backdoor.
Yandex warded off the largest DDoS attack in history recorded at 22 million requests per second and attributed to a new botnet Meris that exploits MikroTik devices.
Roughly in keeping with numbers seen in recent years, the Google Play Store announced that it blocked 1.43 million bad apps and banned 173,000 malicious or policy-violating developer accounts in 2022.
