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The Register
You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy
Graham Cluley
In episode 56 of The AI Fix, Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight, a woman describes her husband falling in love with ChatGPT as “not ideal”, WhatsApp's AI helper isn't helpful, Graham serenades a pack of headless robot dogs with his rendition of “Don't stop me know”, and our hosts debate whether AI turning our brains to porridge is actually a bad thing. Graham tells the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge, and Mark stumps the world's best AIs with an easy question.
Graham Cluley
Find out why AI is stupid, what Toys "R" Us has done that's even more annoying than putting that "R" in its name, why Graham Cluley has an angry AI girlfriend, and much much more in episode five of "The AI Fix" podcast
The Register
Snoopers Charter: Dead cows don't snitch Information wants to be free. This usefully ambiguous battle cry has been the mischievous slogan of hackers since early networking thinker Stuart Brand coined it in the early 1980s. Intended as part of a discussion about the inherent contradictions of intellectual property, it has bestowed irony in many other places since.… Opinion
The Hacker News
Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions are regarded as the common practice to prevent identity threats to administrative accounts. In theory, the PAM concept makes absolute sense: place admin credentials in a vault, rotate their passwords, and closely monitor their sessions. However, the harsh reality is that the vast majority of PAM projects either become a years-long project, or even
The Register
Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences The week before Easter may be a short one for many in the -reading world, but that won't stop us from opening it with a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of things you did at work that had interesting consequences.… Who, Me? Reg
The Register
Keep It Simple, Stupid Scattered Spider and Iranian government-backed cyber units have more in common than a recent uptick in hacking activity, according to Ariel Parnes, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces' cyber unit 8200.… Interview
The Register
Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner? Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when "but it's both" is the default. Apply it to Microsoft's decision to make bug reports include not only a working example but a video of the same, and the meter oscillates wildly. What were they thinking? What did they expect?… Opinion
Graham Cluley
OpenAI's ever-so-clever ChatGPT's software was doing something really-rather-stupid: storing users' chats on their Mac computers in plaintext. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The Hacker News
It got stupid again. The internet still feels held together with tape. Bad plugins, old bugs, fake tools, trusted apps doing shady things. Same mess, new wrapper. And now the weird stuff is normal. Forums go down and come back worse. Cheap hackers get better toys. AI starts breaking real systems. Great. Read the whole thing before it ruins your week anyway. Unauthenticated