A phishing exercise conducted by the IT department of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) has backfired, after causing unnecessary panic amongst students and staff.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Author: Graham Cluley
In episode 13 of "The AI Fix"", meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody's voice, and discover an AI that rick rolls its users.
Graham tells Mark about AI's political ambitions and discovers what ChatGPT has in common with the reluctant ruler of the universe, while Mark introduces Graham to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
A production partner of Netflix has suffered a serious security breach which has resulted in yet-to-be-released episodes of popular shows to be leaked online.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Cybercriminals have succeeded in stealing the payment card information from over 110,000 animal lovers over several months after meddling with Oregon Zoo's online ticket payment system.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
In episode 12 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet an LLM having an existential crisis, ChatGPT speaks Welsh for no reason, Graham does an impression of a water spout, Eric Schmidt shares a new and unexpected take on "do no evil", and our hosts feel like David Attenborough as they witness herds of Waymo robotaxis honking their late-night mating calls at each other.
Our hosts discover why it's OK to make AIs out of human brains, Mark takes Graham on an emotional roller coaster through the AI afterlife, and Graham comes last in a "who's the best Graham on the podcast?" competition.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
An investigation dating back almost ten years has seen the extradition this week to the United States of a man suspected to be the head of one the world's most prolific Russian-speaking cybercriminal gangs.
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) says it has been investigating a cybercriminal using the online handle "J P Morgan" since 2015, alongside parallel investigations run by the United States FBI and Secret Service.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Scammers are once again using deepfake technology to dupe unwary internet Facebook and Instagram users into making unwise cryptocurrency investments.
AI-generated videos promoting fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platform Immediate Edge have used deepfake footage of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and His Royal Highness Prince William to reach an estimated 890,000 people via Meta's social media platforms.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there's no sound on a video of an AI dentist.
Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named "L Ron", a traffic cone saves the world, and Mark has a heated argument with belligerent ChatGPT.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
A notorious ransomware group has demanded more than half a billion dollars from victims in less than two years.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
According to the FBI, billions of dollars have been lost through Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks in recent years, so you may well think that there is little in the way of good news.
However, it has been revealed this week that police managed to recover more than US $40 million snatched in a recent BEC heist just two days after being told about it.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.