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Recommended readings on AI and privacy

Law professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove has made two short essays available to everyone: The AI Inference Problem in Privacy Law AI inferences undermine privacy laws. Whether they recognize inferences or not, privacy laws are in a bind. Rethinking Privacy of the Mind:Β  Why Protecting Neural Data Is Insufficient Is protecting neural data...

Weill Cornell patient data entered into AI tools without authorization

Naomi Diaz reports: New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine disclosed that patient health information was entered into AI tools and processed using machine learning without authorization as part of a radiology research study. Weill Cornell learned of the incident Sept. 6 and launched an investigation, which determined that certain patient information from Weill Cornell Imaging...

Choosing the best tech for the need

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Recently, we were looking for something to solve a problem at the office. Β Rather than spin my wheels looking for the best way to get software A (an Excel spreadsheet) to talk to software B (a line-of-business app that has a SQL backend), I reached out to someone on the […]

Former Meta Exec Shreds the Company’s Muse AI Agent as β€œInsane” Privacy Risk

Victor Tangermann reports: After decades of establishing itself as one of the worst guardians of personal data, Meta raised eyebrows this year by encouraging users to hand over their email logins and credit card information to its new AI agent, Muse. The tool, a privacy nightmare anthropomorphized by a furry apparition, can crawl through years...

Google threatened to block search function in schools. NC schools seek answers

From the β€œsounded-like-extortion-to-us department,” T. Keung Hui reports: Triangle school districts are trying to get more information about how they’ll be impacted by Google’s plan to change access to Google Search in schools. Google set off a firestorm this week when it initially announced that it would turn off access to Google Search for schools...

No need to hack when it’s leaking: Artex edition

Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets. The hacking software, called Artex, is an open source autonomous penetration testing tool, meaning software that automatically probes computer systems for...

Coding Agents Copy Your Secrets to a Hidden File. Thousands Are on GitHub (2)

Shmulik Cohen and Matan Giladi write: Apiiro research found 2,539 real secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repositories: database passwords, cloud keys, API tokens, SSH root logins. Among them: a database vendor’s own admin-level cloud key, a production Azure Postgres password, a Square production token, and the owner password of a medical-records database. 63 organizations, mostly...

In Other News: Trezor Implant, LLMJacking Bills Hit $1M, SAP Flaws Weaponized Within Days

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Synology warns about NAS ransomware attacks, Flowise β€˜hello’ attacks, Chainalysis breach impact expands.

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NT Health issues ban on Meta Glasses as part of review into privacy policy

ABC News reports: NT Health has issued a ban on smart glasses at all of its clinical sites, as part of an internal department review into its privacy policies prompted by a breach at Royal Darwin Hospital earlier this month. The breach involved a medical observer, Dr Neda Mogharehabed, who was visiting Royal Darwin Hospital...

3 Charged in Scheme to Use AI to Impersonate CEOs and Attorneys to Steal $129 Million

The trio, who have nicknames that include β€œRocky Balboa,” β€œSuperman Cash” and β€œFat Boy,” often targeted the companies’ accounting departments.

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Anthropic won’t fix a Claude Dispatch flaw that could let attackers execute remote commands across corporate boundaries

Jessica Lyons reports: A vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude products lets any browser extension that can control Claude Dispatch make Claude Desktop run code on the computer – or even a different machine signed into the same Claude account – with no browser exploit and minimal user interaction required. Anthropic, aware of the problem since May,...
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