If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who’s actually reading any of it? This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
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FBI arrests man accused of using Steam games to drain victims’ crypto wallets
Prosecutors accused 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins of publishing on Steam several fake video games that contained malware, infecting thousands of victims, and stealing crypto from some of them. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the…
Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars
Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Amazon fixing bug…
Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack
Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will “remain suspended” in the United States following a hack. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy…
Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research
One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was ‘squeaky clean,’ while another app was seen sharing users’ health data with an analytics company, underscoring vast differences in user privacy among these apps. This article has been indexed from Security News…
UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in jail for hacking London’s metropolitan transit system. This article has been indexed from Security…
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world’s most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major…
Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II
The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Microsoft patches bug in video game…
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee’s credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube…
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft’s monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company’s product line, thanks to discoveries with AI. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Microsoft…
US charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims
The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: US charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over…
Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Iran…
Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Iran…
Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that short-links to the messaging app had “stopped working.” This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online…
Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI
Apple would not comment on the “security breach,” which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple’s network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch…
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
The LAPD, one of Flock’s biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock…
US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded. This…
US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
CISA said it “missed” an opportunity to get ahead of the security incident by not creating a response plan ahead of time. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: US cyber agency CISA…
Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies
A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group to extort American victim companies into paying the hackers. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Florida ransomware negotiator convicted…
Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers
The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver’s license numbers so far in 2026. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Another massive data breach exposed millions…