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Book Review: Gonzo journalist Barrett Brown’s memoir a piquant take on hacktivism’s rise

Gonzo journalist and inveterate anti-establishment troublemaker Barrett Brown has published his much-awaited memoir, “My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous.”

 

Takeaways: How intelligence agencies’ are cautiously embracing generative AI

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

 

US intelligence agencies’ embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll otherwise be smothered by an avalanche of data as surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

 

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI

The CIA’s first chief technology officer Nand Mulchandani is marshaling generative AI tools to the intelligence agency.

 

Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer

One of Latin America’s most storied journalists, Gustavo Gorriti has endured death threats from drug traffickers, survived Peru’s harrowing Shining Path insurgency and a kidnapping by silencer-toting military intelligence agents during a 1992 presidential power grab.

 

US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race

U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like a swarm of bees to overwhelm an enemy.

 

Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack

A Biden administration-appointed review board has issued a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency.

 

Justice Department sues Apple, alleging it illegally monopolized the smartphone market

The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high.

 

Microsoft says it hasn’t been able to shake Russian state hackers

Microsoft says it is still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email of senior company executives in November and have since been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data.

 

Book Review: ‘Means of Control’ charts the disturbing rise of a secretive US surveillance regime

In the book “Means of Control,” former Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau exposes in disturbing detail how private Beltway contractors have grown a secretive surveillance regime, AP technology reporter Frank Bajak writes.

 

Georgia’s largest county is still repairing damage from January cyberattack

Georgia’s largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government offices by a cyberattack a month ago.

 

The Chinese government carefully watches those it deems a threat. Here’s a glimpse into how

Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government.

 

Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations

Microsoft says U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use generative artificial intelligence in mounting and organizing offensive cyber operations.

 

US rolls out visa restriction policy on people who abuse spyware to target journalists, activists

The Biden administration is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware.

 

Journalists, lawyers and activists hacked with Pegasus spyware in Jordan, forensic probe finds

A new report says Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of nearly three dozen people, including journalists, lawyers and human rights activists.

 

US says it disrupted a China cyber threat, but warns hackers could still wreak havoc for Americans

FBI Director Chris Wray has told House lawmakers that Chinese government hackers are busily targeting critical infrastructure inside the United States, including water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation systems.

 

HP Enterprise discloses hack by suspected state-backed Russian hackers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise says suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its email system and stole data from cybersecurity and other employees.

 

Insider Q&A: Small federal agency crafts standards for making AI safe, secure and trustworthy

A little-known federal agency, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, was tapped by the Biden administration to set testing parameters for ensuring generative AI systems are safe, secure, trustworthy and socially responsible.

 

Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members

Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of cybersecurity and legal employees.

 

US retail mortgage lender loanDepot struggles with cyberattack

The U.S. retail mortgage lender loanDepot says it’s struggling with a cyberattack that has impacted loan processing and phone service.

 

Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation

A prominent disinformation scholar is accusing Harvard University in a whistleblower disclosure of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive into a damning trove of Facebook files.

 

Breaches by Iran-affiliated hackers spanned multiple U.S. states, federal agencies say

U.S. and Israeli authorities say a small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made.

 

Congressmen ask DOJ to investigate water utility hack, warning it could happen anywhere

Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how hackers breached a water utility system near Pittsburgh.

 

Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons

Artificial intelligence employed by the Pentagon has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones, helped Ukraine fight Russia, predicts when Air Force jets need maintenance and tracks rivals’ satellites in space.

 

Insider Q&A: Pentagon AI chief on network-centric warfare, generative AI challenges

Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer Craig Martell is alarmed by the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT to deceive and sow disinformation.

 

US regulators sue SolarWinds and its security chief for alleged cyber neglect ahead of Russian hack

U.S. regulators have sued SolarWinds and its top security executive for fraud for allegedly concealing poor cybersecurity practices ahead of the Texas-based technology company’s stunning hack by Russian spies.

 

UAW escalates strike against lone holdout GM after landing tentative pacts with Stellantis and Ford

The United Auto Workers union has widened its strike against General Motors, the lone holdout among the three Detroit automakers, after reaching a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis.

 

X promises ‘highest level’ response on posts about Israel-Hamas war. Misinformation still flourishes

The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, says it is struggling with a flood of posts sharing graphic media, violent speech and hateful conduct about the latest war between Israel and Hamas.

 

Leading Egyptian opposition politician targeted with spyware, researchers find

Security researchers say a leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with Predator spyware after announcing a president bid.

 

Book Review: Novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow pens a manual for destroying Big Tech

“There is no fixing Big Tech,” Cory Doctorow, a novelist and public-interest technologist who gained online fame with the blog “Boing Boing,” writes in his new book “The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means of Computation,” a manifesto for people who want to destroy it.

 

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