ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps(theguardian.com)

151 points by pera 1 year ago | 47 comments

Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years(theguardian.com)

80 points by macsparrow 2 years ago | 71 comments

ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media(jacobin.com)

199 points by throwaway81523 1 year ago | 191 comments

Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools(politico.com)

62 points by koolba 2 years ago | 74 comments

183M Gmail Passwords Leaked(forbes.com)

11 points by FrostKiwi 1 year ago | 1 comments

Cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone chip coming in 2026, per new report(9to5mac.com)

33 points by spurgu 11 months ago | 34 comments

TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday(reuters.com)

630 points by xnhbx 1 year ago | 1627 comments

Reuters article reporting TikTok is preparing to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday; the capture shows a captcha puzzle instead of the article.

Ghrc.io appears to be malicious(bmitch.net)

352 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 58 comments

Blog post by Brandon Mitchell reporting that ghrc.io, a typo of GitHub's ghcr.io container registry, appears to steal GitHub credentials.

Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach(troyhunt.com)

540 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 358 comments

Troy Hunt's blog post analyzing the National Public Data breach, which was claimed to expose records on 3 billion people.

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise(openwall.com)

4122 points by rkta 2 years ago | 1526 comments

Andres Freund's oss-security mailing list post disclosing a backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma tarballs 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 that compromises SSH servers.

Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks(krebsonsecurity.com)

365 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 231 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article reporting that U.S. federal agents linked a $150 million cryptocurrency heist to master passwords cracked from the 2022 LastPass breach.

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6(washingtonpost.com)

1103 points by alain94040 4 months ago | 1163 comments

Washington Post article reporting that the U.S. government will vet who can use OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model upgrade amid increased federal AI oversight.