US government says it got hacked — again

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a breach of its platform, which federal, state, and local governments and law enforcement use to share intelligence, with one senior lawmaker warning that the information spill could risk national security. News sites Nextgov, which first broke news of the incident, and Bleeping Computer report that DHS officials…

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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reigniting fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s digital rights unit The…

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Password supervisor maker LastPass says hackers stole buyer help case information throughout Klue breach

Password supervisor maker LastPass says hackers stole buyer help case information throughout Klue breach

Password supervisor maker LastPass is notifying clients that their private info and buyer help case data have been stolen throughout a current hack at one in every of its expertise companions, marking the corporate’s newest information breach in recent times. In an e mail shared with TechCrunch from an affected buyer, LastPass mentioned the breach…

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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘harmful’ US authorities ban on Anthropic’s strongest fashions

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘harmful’ US authorities ban on Anthropic’s strongest fashions

A bunch made up of dozens of cybersecurity specialists, together with a number of well-known veterans of the business, published an open letter to the U.S. authorities asking it to elevate the export management order on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos fashions. In keeping with the open letter, “this motion has taken the perfect fashions away…

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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t blissful in regards to the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t blissful in regards to the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Anthropic launched its newest mannequin Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and restricted model of its highly effective and much-hyped cybersecurity mannequin Mythos. However not everyone seems to be proud of the restrictions, and a number of cybersecurity researchers and professionals have aired complaints on-line.  “[Fable] rejects any request that could possibly be…

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