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Intel Outside: Researcher downloaded data on all 270,000 Intel employees from an internal business card website
By Mark Tyson published
Security researcher Eaton was inspired to do some gentle prying of Intel websites, after considering the company's hardware security reputation.

Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky
By Nathaniel Mott published
A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.

Russia hacked and took control of a Norwegian dam, police chief claims
By Mark Tyson published
Moscow is to blame for a cyberattack on a dam, which remotely opened the floodgates for a period of around four hours, says Norway's security chief.

ChatGPT agent casually brushes aside ‘I am not a robot’ captcha
By Mark Tyson published
A Redditor has demonstrated the ability of the recently launched ChatGPT agent to casually swat away a captcha, so that it can complete its assigned task(s).

Microsoft says China-based hackers exploiting critical SharePoint vulnerabilities to deploy Warlock ransomware
By Nathaniel Mott published
Microsoft said that critical vulnerabilities in SharePoint are being exploited by a potentially China-linked threat actor, Storm-2603, to deploy ransomware.

Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon's AI coding assistant with a simple pull request
By Nathaniel Mott published
A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device.

This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action
By Mark Tyson published
Team Group's new M.2 2280 SSD comes with a big red button. Hold it one second too long, and it destroys your NAND instead of just erasing the data.

Microsoft's youngest security researcher started collaboration with the company at just 13
By Mark Tyson published
Microsoft has published a blog about one of its youngest and most outstanding security researchers. Dylan started work for MSRC age 13.
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