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Cookie theft: how fraudsters get the digital key to your accounts

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‘Session cookies’ are a primary target for hackers letting them hijack and use your accounts You’ve had a busy morning of life admin, logging into various accounts to check balances and make payments. At the end of a productive few hours you close your laptop and move on …

The Guardian view on AI safety: the push for global regulation must advance | Editorial

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The current US administration is an obstacle, but public demand for protection will ultimately prevail Organisations around the world scrambled on Thursday to fix critical flaws in PHP, the software that powers much of the web. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to take control of affected servers. Some websites …

The race to fix huge PHP code flaw at the heart of the internet - The Latest

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Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made …

Websites across world hit by millions of attempts to exploit PHP code flaw

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Problem in language that underpins 70% of sites has led governments and companies to pull sites offline to patch fault Tell us: have you been affected by the PHP code flaw? What is PHP, and how bad is the computer language flaw causing website shutdowns globally ? Websites around the …

What is PHP and how serious is the computer language flaw causing website shutdowns?

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An estimated 70% of websites use the open-source language. What is the identified vulnerability in it? Website owners faced millions of attempts to exploit a serious security vulnerability in their programming language, it has emerged, triggering a rush by governments and businesses to fix the problem. The newly discovered …

PHP: Pretty Huge Problem with the internet – The Latest

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Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made …

The internet has broken – again. Shouldn’t the tech firms that make billions from it pay to fix it? | Chris Stokel-Walker

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I’ve been banging the drum about these vulnerabilities for years. It will take more than a handful of exhausted developers to keep us safe Parts of the internet are going dark. In the Netherlands, government websites, including its digital ID login service, have become unavailable. Finland has taken …

Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world

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Precautionary takedowns come as experts say bad actors could exploit vulnerability in language used by 70% of sites Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web. Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and …

Serbian prosecutor who investigated Belgrade Trump tower project ‘targeted with spyware’

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Apparent attempt to hack Rade Bajić’s iPhone comes amid efforts to undermine landmark criminal case A Serbian prosecutor who investigated the authorities’ allegedly illegal scheme to help the Trumps build a tower in Belgrade has been targeted with advanced spyware, expert analysis indicates. The finding suggests a disturbing …

What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?

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The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the year Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future – together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already – are …

Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI

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In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent – not so from China There is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and handed to businesses and governments in the west almost free of charge. Every month Chinese …

The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures – as is the fear of ‘falling behind the public’

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Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors “I have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to be all anyone is talking about,” said one cabinet minister, with an ominous stare …

Not cool: who hacked France’s supermarket fridges?

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Whether it was youngsters proving their skills or state sabotage, Europe’s most hacked country was left with a mountain of waste after food began cooking in freezers Shortly before midnight last Sunday, the digital thermostats controlling hundreds of supermarket cold aisles across France began to flicker and rise …

Cyber-attack similar to OpenAI Medicare breach seems likely in UK, says minister

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Kanishka Narayan, concerned by Australian incident, says British cyber defences could be bypassed by artificial intelligence agent UK politics live – latest updates An AI-driven cyber-attack similar to the OpenAI breach of Australia’s healthcare system is likely, “if not inevitable”, in the UK, according to a senior minister. Kanishka …

‘You have a meeting’: the calendar phishing scam growing exponentially

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Appointment or renewal reminder appears in victims’ calendar to lure them into logging in to fake Google, Microsoft or PayPal page You’re preparing for the week ahead and take a look at your Google calendar. There’s an entry for a meeting that you must have completely forgotten …

OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions | Toby Walsh

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We don’t accept drugs killing a few people because they cure most patients. Or a few planes crashing because most land safely. AI should be no different OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was asked to appear before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Australia and explain …

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’

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David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, who led …

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’

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David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, who led …

As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you | Chris Stokel-Walker

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The need for independent regulation grows more obvious by the day. We must keep this tech in check before it’s too late OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me …

Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity

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Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’ Nick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI’s “godlike power to exterminate humanity”, calling it a sign that tech bosses are “breathing their own fumes”. The former UK deputy prime …

Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors

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Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers Vast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an official UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US …

OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

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US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’ Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company. A team at a US-based startup compromised a number …

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