Scientists at cloud security company Wiz discovered Microsoft artificial intelligence researchers accidentally compromised a large collection of private data.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2023
Researchers at Canada-based Citizen Lab found a vulnerability in Apple devices was used to spread spyware from Israeli cyber-intelligence group NSO.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2023
Artificial intelligence tools have given scammers a potent weapon for trying to trick people into sending them money.
The New York Times From ACM News | September 1, 2023
In the AI era, publishers are more aggressively blocking crawlers because there's no upside, for now, in handing over their data to AI companies.
Axios From ACM News | August 31, 2023
Exploring ways to supplement conventional computer vision data with metadata collected from physics-based sensors and systems.
Samuel Greengard From ACM News | August 31, 2023
A joint statement from a dozen countries called on social media platforms to address illegal data scraping, emphasizing that local laws require them to protect...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2023
Adalytics reported Google's YouTube advertised adult products from over 300 brands on close to 100 YouTube videos geared toward children, with several ads displaying...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2023
A post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm developed by researchers at Google and Switzerland's ETH Zurich enables quantum-resistant encryption for FIDO2 security...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2023
A multi-institutional team of researchers developed malware to extract caller information by screening vibration data from ear speakers recorded by a smartphone's...Texas A&M Engineering News From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2023
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
Esther Shein From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2023
A driverless Cruise taxi with a passenger collided with a fire truck Thursday night, just one week after state officials allowed the service to expand.
The New York Times From ACM News | August 21, 2023
Software company Vicarius unveiled vuln_GPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool that automatically identifies and repairs software vulnerabilities, at the...Dark Reading From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2023
Cybersecurity researchers at Trellix have identified vulnerabilities in commonly used applications in data centers that could allow hackers to gain access and shut...CyberScoop From ACM TechNews | August 16, 2023
University of Massachusetts Amherst's Brian Levine and a dozen computer scientists have developed a computational model that evaluates customer reviews of social...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 16, 2023
Bank of Ireland has fixed technical problems that allowed some customers to withdraw or transfer funds above what was in their accounts, it said Wednesday after...Reuters From ACM News | August 16, 2023
Nearly 2,500 hackers at the DEFCON conference's AI Village spent this past weekend poking and probing some of the most popular large language models for flaws.
...Axios From ACM News | August 14, 2023
Researchers at NIST suggest good strategies for talking to kids about online privacy and security, from a young age through high school.
National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | August 14, 2023