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RATs can sniff out your Chinese-made web cameras: here’s how to defend yourself
Malicious campaigns are attacking Chinese-branded IoT devices – web cameras and DVRs – to crack authentication. Unfortunately, vendors are seemingly not in a rush to patch the targeted vulnerabilities.
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Healthcare hacking spree continues as another 225K exposed
US healthcare provider Regional Care, Inc. (RCI) has contacted nearly a quarter of a million people whose data was exposed in a hacker attack.
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TikTok wish lists: a new era of privilege?
Forget Santa – today’s kids are taking their gift lists to TikTok, turning holiday wishes into public demands. Is this the new face of entitlement?
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Congo sues Apple over ‘blood minerals’
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has accused Apple of covering up war crimes in lawsuits filed against the tech giant in Europe.
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Windows to block PornHub? German state leaders hope so
An already controversial draft legislation on youth protection in Germany has now been infused with steroids. The updated proposal requires operating systems to incorporate filtering mechanisms to block access to pornography.
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Two men arrested for 'hazardous drone' ops in Boston adding to UAP hysteria
Two men caught flying drones "dangerously close" to Boston’s Logan International Airport have been taken in by authorities after another weekend of drone anxiety in the Northeast US led to the closure of several nearby airports and military bases.
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Rhode Island left scrambling as Deloitte confirms breach likely impacting thousands
Rhode Island’s main benefits system, RIBridges, was cut off after a likely ransomware attack on Deloitte. In the worst-case scenario, anyone who applied for health coverage has been exposed.
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Europol battles online hate speech while social media platforms sit idle
Europol has supported 18 European law enforcement agencies in helping fight online hate speech and violence against different ethnoreligious groups.
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AI deepfakes are targeting women in politics at alarming rates
A new report has found that women in Congress are 70 times more likely to be targeted by deepfakes than men, often with sexually explicit images created by AI.
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Altman follows Zuckerberg, Bezos with $1M Trump donation
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman on Friday said he will donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund as a gesture of goodwill towards the President-elect before he officially takes office on January 20th.
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TikTok ban: Apple, Google warned to get app stores “ready” for Jan. 19th deadline
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday were warned by US lawmakers to be prepared to enforce a January 19th deadline that would ban TikTok if the Chinese-owned ByteDance refuses to divest the short video app.
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Texas probes AI firms after chatbot tells kid it would understand killing his parents
In a lawsuit filed this week, a mother in Texas says that a Character.AI chatbot encouraged her 17-year-old son to self-harm and suggested it would be understandable to kill his parents for limiting his screen time. The Lone Star State has had enough.
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Zuckerberg, Bezos donate $1 million to Trump following in Musk's footsteps, but what's the endgame?
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon donated $1,000,000 each to Trump’s inaugural fund on Thursday, in what appears to be the latest move by big tech leaders to court the newly re-elected President and stay in his good graces.
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First responders are embracing AI amid cybersecurity concerns
Nearly 90% of law enforcement support using AI to increase efficiency, while almost all are worried about safety.
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Buzzfeed clings to life after selling company behind ‘Hot Ones’ for over $82M
Buzzfeed has sold ‘First We Feast,’ a popular YouTube channel that features the show Hot Ones, for almost $83 million.
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“I’m cooked,” said student after major ChatGPT outage
OpenAI has experienced major worldwide outages across most of its services, including ChatGPT and its recently released text-to-video generation tool, Sora.
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Did Musk have anything to do with Alex Jones’ victory over The Onion?
Alex Jones is rejoicing after The Onion’s bid for his media platform was rejected by a federal bankruptcy judge. Yet, the satirical media outlet vows to pursue purchasing InfoWars.
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So what's the deal with these unexplained drones descending on New Jersey?
New Jersey residents are sounding the alarm after witnesses say they’ve seen and recorded dozens of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) flying across the state over the past month. Now, one congressman has claimed the UAPs are actually Iranian drones being controlled by a "mothership" parked off the East Coast of the US. Cybernews takes a deep dive to find out the real story.
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America’s favorite doughnut chain disrupted by cyberattack
Krispy Kreme, the popular worldwide doughnut and coffeehouse chain, said a network breach in November has caused a major disruption to its online ordering systems during one of the busiest shopping seasons of the year.
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Meta's Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp down for over 100K users
All of Meta Platform’s social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, have been reported down for tens of thousands of users on Monday afternoon.
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