Your LG TV could be the biggest security vulnerability in your home or your office, new research from Bitdefender has found. The LG WebOS TV operating system’s versions 4 through 7 are seemingly riddled with security vulnerabilities that allow hackers to add themselves as a user, take over the device and exploit command injection vulnerabilities … Read more
If someone were to infect your Meta Quest VR headset with malware, they could trick you into seeing things in the virtual world which weren’t real, experts have warned. Academics from Cornell University recently published a paper describing the possibility of hijacking people’s VR sessions and controlling their interactions with internal applications, external servers, and … Read more
It’s every researcher’s worst nightmare. A careless click on an e-mail and years of laboratory data are instantaneously encrypted by hackers. Or a piece of legacy lab equipment is compromised through its ancient, zero-security connection to the Internet. The machine might have been a godsend for running experiments from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but … Read more
Someone broke into almost a dozen IMF email accounts, but it’s yet unknown what they did with the information found there. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), a UN financial agency funded by 190 member countries, confirmed the breach in a press release published late last week, as well as in a short statement given to … Read more
Researchers have found a way to pull out over a million pieces of information from the memory of GPTs such as ChatGPT. Using fairly simple prompts they have demonstrated that it’s not too hard to get this data from AI systems such as ChatGPT and other similar large language models. This news is concerning for … Read more