OpenAI agent goes rogue and raids digital library

OpenAI agent goes rogue and raids digital library

A rogue OpenAI agent is responsible for a completely autonomous attack on Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The AI models responsible were being tested at the time, and managed to hack into the popular digital library, compromising some internal datasets and...

Cybercrime, hacking a worry for SMBs

Cybercrime costs the global economy $445-billion annually, and cyber espionage and stealing personal information is believed to have affected more than 800-million people during 2013. Although the perception of the risk of cybercrime is increasing (9% from 38% in 2011...

Sony strikes back with DDoS attack

Sony Pictures is using typical hacker tactics in an attempt to prevent compromised information from being downloaded. The information was lost in hacker attack on the Sony systems a couple of weeks ago and has now been made available for download. The data includes...

Hacking into the average living room …

Kaspersky Lab security analyst David Jacoby conducted a research experiment in his own living room to find out how safe his home is from a cyber security point of view. He inspected home entertainment devices such as network-attached storages (NAS), smart TVs, router, Blu-ray player and so on to find out if they are vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

The corporate toilet: a hacking hotspot

There is a long list of consumer devices that can be hacked and the information used to access corporate or personal data. Since the Black Hat security conference in September 2013, the toilet has now been added to that list, and if something as innocuous and...