I aggregate and share links to articles, reports, or other materials pertaining to my professional interests. Topics covered tend to include:
- cybersecurity,
- national security,
- data security,
- privacy,
- artificial intelligence ,
- critical infrastructure,
- other miscellaneous content.
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- In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.
- Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
- Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
- The clandestine Russian operation was carried out by Moscow’s GUGI undersea warfare directorate to test a destructive sabotage capability, sources said.
- The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
- 45 days of Signal history may be exposed by German police messaging surveillance using linked devices, Netzpolitik says. Read what the documents reveal
- Ontario’s transparency watchdog is warning that the government is dodging its orders more frequently, including orders that would shed light on how a multi-billion dollar government fund pushed grants to supporters including one to an adult entertainment club.
- Names and addresses have ended up on social media of supporters of an Essex mayoral candidate.
- Loblaw Companies Limited’s PC Health launched an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot earlier this month, and the company says it processed more than 100,000 questions in its first week.
- AI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat.
- Freedom-of-information reforms focus on speed, but access rights also depend on finding the right records and redacting them correctly.
- In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
- A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
- Data theft and extortion biz, that is
- The Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.
- Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users
- Prime Minister has given OpenAI boss a stern talking-to
- Generative AI can flood project approvals with sophisticated public submissions. Governments need better tools to assess and organize them.
