security
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Company Leaves 752,00 Birth Certificate Copy Applications Publicly Exposed On Amazon Cloud Account
An online firm that helps customers obtain copies of their birth certificates from state and local authorities left some 720,000 applications on an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage system, TechCrunch reported on Monday.
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The System For American .gov Domains Is An Open Target For Fraudsters
You’d think it would be hard to talk the U.S. government into giving you some random town’s .gov email address. You’d hope the process would be rigorous. But as one hacker explained to security researcher Brian Krebs, securing a U.S. government-endorsed top-level domain is actually frighteningly easy.
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Terrifying Camera App Flaw Left Millions Of Android Phones Vulnerable To Spying
Even if you’re diligent about app permissions, sometimes you just can’t predict how or when a bad actor will abuse them. This time around, a team of security researchers found a terrifying flaw with the Android camera apps that could let malicious apps completely take control over a phone’s camera to spy on users without…
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Henry Kissinger Warns That AI Will Fundamentally Alter Human Consciousness
Speaking in Washington, D.C. earlier today, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger said he’s convinced of AI’s potential to fundamentally alter human consciousness”including changes in our self-perception and to our strategic decision-making. He also slammed AI developers for insufficiently thinking through the implications of their creations.