Fooling an AI Article Writer
World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice…
Security
Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around…
Over 500K MikroTik RouterOS systems potentially exposed to hacking due to critical flaw
Experts warn of a severe privilege escalation, tracked as CVE-2023-30799, in MikroTik RouterOS that can be exploited to hack vulnerable…
New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
The details are scant—the article is based on a “heavily redacted” contract—but the New York subway authority is using an…
API Security in 2023: Major Insights from Postman’s State of the API Report
📣 Good news for all tech enthusiasts! The highly anticipated 2023 State of the API Report, conducted by Postman –…
A flaw in OpenSSH forwarded ssh-agent allows remote code execution
A new flaw in OpenSSH could be potentially exploited to run arbitrary commands remotely on compromised hosts under specific conditions.…
Google Reportedly Disconnecting Employees from the Internet
Supposedly Google is starting a pilot program of disabling Internet connectivity from employee computers: The company will disable internet access…
2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: Introduction
In early June 2023, OWASP released the final version of the OWASP API Security Top-10 list update. At that time…
Friday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores
Neat: Chromatophores are tiny color-changing cells in cephalopods. Watch them blink back and forth from purple to white on this…
AI and Microdirectives
Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions…