In France, a 15-year-old has been taken into temporary custody over suspected involvement in the hacking of a government website. The Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés (ANTS) stores personal identification data used for ID cards, passports, and driver’s licenses. The teenager is accused of taking part in a data breach that resulted in millions of records being offered for sale on the dark web. Simon Moritz reports, with details from colleagues at France 2.
Two of Silicon Valley's best known tech moguls, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are going to face off each other in court with the trial getting underway with jury selection on Monday. The lawsuit is brought by Musk, who accuses Altman of fraud and is seeking more than $130 billion in damages, for 'betraying' the AI startup's founding mission of being non-profit. Plus, labelling rules on honey jars are set to toughen from mid-June in France, taking a new EU indication of origin rule into effect.
Frontend cloud platform Vercel, the creator of Next.js and Turbo.js, has warned about a data breach after a compromised third-party AI application abused OAuth to access its internal systems.
A Vercel employee used the third-party app, identified as Context.ai, which allowed the attackers to take over their Google Workspace account and access some environment variables that the company said were not marked as “sensitive.”
“Environment variables marked as ‘sensitive’ in Vercel are stored in a manner that prevents them from being read, and we currently do not have evidence that those values were accessed,” Vercel said in a security post.
The incident compromised what the company described as a “limited subset” of customers whose Vercel credentials were exposed. These customers have now been reached out to with requests to rotate their credentials, Vercel said.
According to reports surfacing on the internet, a threat actor claiming to be the Shinyhunters began attempting to sell the stole
Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligence
Emma Brockes’ article struck a chord (It’s finally happened: I’m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears, 8 April). I am reading Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, in which the eminent French historian and soon-to-be-executed resistance worker gives a first-hand account of the collapse of the French army in 1940. He attributes the debacle at least in part to a failure of imagination on the part of the French general staff, who were incapable of grasping that technology, and war, had fundamentally changed since 1918.
Brockes’ article suggests that we, and our leaders, are suffering from the same inability to understand that a technology which is currently amusingly alarming will develop in less amusing ways – the future Marshal Ferdinand Foch had, according to Bloch, earlier dismissed aircraft as being a toy for hobbyists and not of any military interest.
AI company says purpose of its Claude Mythos model is to bolster defenses against hacking in common applications
Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses.
Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which no patch or fix exists, prompting the San Francisco-based AI startup to form an alliance with cybersecurity specialists to bolster defenses against hacking and withhold wide distribution.
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