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Cyber Security Archive

Archives for September 2024

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
AT&T will pay the FCC $13 million to settle a hacking investigation.

The FCC investigated AT&T’s “supply chain integrity” after hackers stole customer data from a vendor’s cloud environment in January 2023. “AT&T failed to ensure the vendor: (1) adequately protected the customer information, and (2) returned or destroyed it as required by contract,” the FCC says.

AT&T also entered into a consent decree as part of the settlement.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Your Discord calls will soon be end-to-end encrypted.

“Today, we’ll start migrating voice and video in DMs, Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams to use E2EE,” Discord’s Stephen Birarda writes in a blog post. Discord is rolling out the ability to log in to Discord using passkeys, too.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
Some more analysis of the Hezbollah pager explosions.

Wired weighs in against the theory that pager batteries were overheated by a cyberattack to cause today’s fatal explosions, concluding an electronics shipment was more likely compromised and packed with explosives — and noting it wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“GAZEploit.”

With the “GAZEploit” attack, researchers found they could predict what somebody was typing on the Vision Pro’s virtual keyboard by analyzing the eye movements of their Persona, according to Wired.

Apple fixed the issue with visionOS 1.3 by suspending a Persona when the person is using the virtual keyboard.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Dangerous game.

A hacker tricked ChatGPT to share details on how to make a bomb in part by instructing it to play a game, TechCrunch reports. It’s the latest loophole to get around ChatGPT’s safety guardrails.