Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse
Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse

Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos. Floc…

Just when we thought targeted ads couldn’t get any worse, these were found serving malware

Al Jazeera journalists were infected, but the number of victims could be a lot bigger.

OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports
OpenAI in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, The Information reports

“Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that finds and fixes sec…

Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack
Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack

“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 Oct…

Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides

Canada’s planned surveillance law is the latest grim step in a series of threats to encryption that are spreading around the world.

Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports
Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports

“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are…

Biomemory’s DNA Shield stores critical data in synthetic DNA — beyond the reach of cyberattacks

DNA Shield provides offline storage for critical digital assets, data that must remain unchanged and protected from emerging threats and technologies

Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists

Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come
MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s Lond…

D-Link, Ubiquiti devices hijacked by hackers to plunder stolen bandwidth

Someone hacked network-attached devices to install… legitimate software? For nefarious purposes, still.