Tag: jack
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Slashdot: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/10/0056202/see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a significant privacy concern involving popular apps that are being exploited to harvest sensitive location data through the advertising ecosystem. This data, which is aggregated by rogue…
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The Register: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/backdoored_backdoors/ Source: The Register Title: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed Feedly Summary: Here’s what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts…
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The Register: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/volkswagen_ev_data_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online Feedly Summary: PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security…
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Hacker News: U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/u-s-army-soldier-arrested-in-att-verizon-extortions/ Source: Hacker News Title: U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A U.S. Army soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, has been arrested for allegedly hacking and leaking sensitive telecom data. His arrest highlights a concerning trend of military personnel becoming involved in cybercriminal…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/23/jack-clark/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: There’s been a lot of strange reporting recently about how ‘scaling is hitting a wall’ – in a very narrow sense this is true in that larger models were getting less score improvement on challenging benchmarks than their predecessors, but in a…