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Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns | TechCrunch

The states of Florida and Texas are moving to end their relationship with surveillance giant Flock, as the...

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Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson | TechCrunch

A prolific hacking group has taken credit for last week’s cyberattack against U.S. pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson, leading...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Dr. Leslie Saxon holds implantable cardioverter-defibrillators by three leading manufacturers, St. Jude Medical, left, Boston Scientific and Medtronic, at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, May 20, 2010. The smart defibrillators monitor and transmit information about heart activity daily to hospital personnel. (Photo by Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images)
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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Apollo Global Management signage in New York, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Apollo's CEO said it's getting harder for active managers to beat indexes in public markets and that it is easier for investors to find alpha in private markets. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants | TechCrunch

Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal...