Blog Digest February 2024

Blog Digest February 2024

These are the Changes of Cybersecurity Springtime

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on February 29, 2024
time to read: 6 minutes

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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months

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AI-generated voices in robocalls are illegal, rules FCC

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AI falsely accuses, fines artificial intelligence expert of using phone while driving

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Air Canada’s chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake

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Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like ‘I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy’

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As EV sales surge and cars get heavier, parking garages will have to change

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David Kahn, historian who cracked the code of cryptology, dies at 93

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DNA testing: What happens if your genetic data is hacked?

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Following lawsuit, rep admits ‘AI’ George Carlin was human-written

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Gemini Has a Problem

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Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

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Hackers got nearly 7 million people’s data from 23andMe. The firm blamed users in ‘very dumb’ move

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MIT and IBM Find Clever AI Ways Around Brute-Force Math

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No, 3 million electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack

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Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident

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Sora Can’t Handle the Truth

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This AI Is Learning to Decode the ‘Language’ of Chickens

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You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious

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Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen Researchers new side channel attack can reproduce partial fingerprints to enable attacks

About the Author

Marc Ruef

Marc Ruef has been working in information security since the late 1990s. He is well-known for his many publications and books. The last one called The Art of Penetration Testing is discussing security testing in detail. He is a lecturer at several faculties, like ETH, HWZ, HSLU and IKF. (ORCID 0000-0002-1328-6357)

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