Blog Digest Juli 2024

Blog Digest Juli 2024

These are the heated Cybersecurity Weeks

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on July 31, 2024
time to read: 5 minutes

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77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds

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Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it

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A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too

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AI-powered scams and what you can do about them

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AI isn’t necessarily taking your job: 12 reasons to ease those worries

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All the existential risk, none of the economic impact. That’s a shitty trade

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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach

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Crisis communication: What not to do

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Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking the scammer a question only CEO Benedetto Vigna could answer

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Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results

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Hackers use PoC exploits in attacks 22 minutes after release

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How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us

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I’m a tech startup founder. We weed out job applications written with ChatGPT by hiding a prompt just for AI in our listings

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iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for ‘hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours’ and even the AI company’s own chatbot disapproves

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Inside a Violent Gang’s Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree

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Introducing Windows 11 checkpoint cumulative updates

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Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web

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Microsoft leak of PlayReady developer

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Phish-Friendly Domain Registry ‘.top’ Put on Notice

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Public urge immediate data collection after ransomware attack

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Quantifying the Probability of Flaws in Open Source

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The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions

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The Not-So-Secret Network Access Broker x999xx

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The SEC Wins ‘Shadow Insider Trading’ Trial

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The sperm whale ‘phonetic alphabet’ revealed by AI

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Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes

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When the Crowd Strikes Back

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Woman used dead man’s severed thumb to steal from bank account, police say

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YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice

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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