Category: Privacy & Security
How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools | TechCrunch
Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post...
More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey | TechCrunch
The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A new survey has...
ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack | TechCrunch
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its...
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others | TechCrunch
Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group...
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies | TechCrunch
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of...
Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations | TechCrunch
A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations,...
US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate | TechCrunch
The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and...
CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July | TechCrunch
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water...
WhatsApp tightens account security with stronger two-step verification and more | TechCrunch
WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it’s launching new security features and updates to help users keep their accounts secure,...
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face | TechCrunch
Alabama’s attorney general announced Monday that it sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into...
