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FBI warns of malicious free online document converters spreading malware

Security Affairs

The FBI warns of a significant increase in scams involving free online document converters to infect users with malware. The FBI warns that threat actors use malicious online document converters to steal users sensitive information and infect their systems with malware. ” reads the alert. ” reads the alert.

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New Revelations from the Snowden Documents

Schneier on Security

Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. At this point, those documents are more historical than anything else. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits. Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago.

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Documents about the NSA’s Banning of Furby Toys in the 1990s

Schneier on Security

Via a FOIA request, we have documents from the NSA about their banning of Furby toys.

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OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

Schneier on Security

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced , but there’s still a lot of confusion. It seems not to be true.

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AI chatbot provider exposes 346,000 customer files, including ID documents, resumes, and medical records

Malwarebytes

Some of the records that were found included: Identification documents including passports, which contain information like full names, dates of birth, passport numbers, and other information cybercriminals love to get their hands on.

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Roger Grimes on Prioritizing Cybersecurity Advice

Schneier on Security

. […] This specific CISA document has at least 21 main recommendations, many of which lead to two or more other more specific recommendations. Any person following this document is…rightly…going to be expected to evaluate and implement all those recommendations.

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NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments

Schneier on Security

Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker ­ and not its government customers ­ is the party that “installs and extracts” information from mobile phones targeted by the company’s hacking software.