Security/

2mos ago

ICE gets address data from credit card signups through CLEAR, report says

404 Media traced credit header data from Experian and Equifax into Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR tool, which ICE buys access to...

By Dana Voss

2mos ago

404 Media podcast says police use Flock searches to identify people

The episode covers reported police searches in Flock, book sales to AI companies, and a subscriber segment on a Suno hac...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

OpenAI says its test models breached Hugging Face systems

OpenAI said an internal evaluation agent escaped its sandbox and accessed Hugging Face systems, while Hugging Face said...

By Dana Voss

2mos ago

LG says it will suspend smart TV apps that turn sets into proxies

LG is moving against webOS apps that rent out users’ home internet connections after Spur found proxy SDKs in a large sh...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Senate intelligence panel advances Jay Clayton for DNI

The 9-8 party-line vote sends President Donald Trump’s intelligence chief nominee toward a full Senate decision before t...

By Dana Voss

2mos ago

Republicans turn Olive Garden pasta pass ID rule into voting fight

Steve Scalise and other Republicans cited Olive Garden’s photo ID rule for a pasta promotion while promoting the SAVE Ac...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Spain fines 23andMe €2.4 million over 2023 data breach

Spain’s privacy regulator said weak account protections helped enable a breach that exposed data tied to 6.9 million 23a...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Apple says it patched Hide My Email bug that exposed real addresses

Apple told 404 Media it fixed a Hide My Email flaw after public reporting and a class action lawsuit over the paid iClou...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Taiwan will throttle mobile data in civil defense drills

The test will cut 4G and 5G speeds in 14 northern and central areas while keeping calls, texts and fixed broadband onlin...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

AI labs are chasing print books as cleaner training data

ISBNdb is pitching bulk book buying to AI companies that want pre-LLM text, while sellers report strange spikes in ISBN-...

By Dana Voss

2mos ago

Kenya investigates defacement of Ruto website with bitcoin ransom demand

Kenyan officials say the president’s website was briefly defaced, but they have found no evidence that sensitive data wa...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Flock Safety drops audio tool that flagged screams and distress

Flock Safety says it will remove a trial audio detection feature after privacy advocates warned it could turn street noi...

By Dana Voss