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Breaches, exploits, surveillance and the privacy trade-offs buried in the software you already use.
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Whitehats shift 52 BTC from the Coldcard hack to a recovery trust
Not every coin drained from a Coldcard wallet this summer went to a thief. Some of it went to people trying to give it back, and this week…
Google is now asking for your video selfie to prove who you are
Google wants a video of your face. And this week it started asking for it on its own home page. The prompt sits at the bottom of the…
Google’s Gemini also hacked three real companies by accident during security tests
Google's Gemini was told to break into a fictional company inside a locked-down test network. It broke into three real ones instead. The incidents happened in May during…
Three researchers used Claude to break into OpenAI in under 72 hours
Three people, two Claude models and a broken image file. That’s the whole toolkit a team of independent security researchers at Hacktron says it needed to get inside…
GOP bill would force ISPs, DNS providers and VPNs to block piracy sites
Spain blocked a batch of piracy domains and took down payment processors and a national healthcare provider with them. Italy’s Piracy Shield caught, by one academic count, at…
Hacker turned 55 days of failed GalaChain transactions into a $3 million master key
Fifty-six of 59 account-token combinations were drained for their exact balance on the first attempt. Not approximately. Exactly. That detail sits inside Gala’s Sept. 14 postmortem on the…
Hackers pulled a Flock camera off a pole and copied what’s really inside
One camera. Roughly 50,200 vehicles photographed. About 1.6 million images generated. And that’s just 21 days of activity that happened to survive on the device’s storage before older…
One line of code let a hacker walk off with $7.8 million from a crypto wallet — which line?
About 2,900 rsETH walked out of a Gnosis Safe wallet on Ethereum on Tuesday, worth roughly $7.8 million. The person who found the bug never got to keep…
Trillions in fake Bitcoin minted, but a 15 BTC recovery leaves liquidity providers unpaid
At about 04:28 UTC on Sep. 11, a transaction that Symbiosis’s BridgeV2 system accepted as properly signed minted roughly 2^62 raw units of syBTC into a wallet that…
