cybercrime
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A New AI-Driven Cyberattack Can Steal Your Data Just By Listening to You Type
A new study published by a number of British researchers reveals a hypothetical cyberattack in which a hacker could leverage recorded audio of a person typing to steal their personal data. The attack uses a homemade deep-learning-based algorithm that can acoustically analyse keystroke noises and automatically decode what that person is typing. The research showed…
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Google Is Restricting Internet Access for Some Employees to Combat Cyberattacks
Google is restricting some employees’ Internet access in a pilot program created to combat cyberattacks. An internal memo informed employees that 2,500 were selected to use the internet-free desktop PCs, but the memo was revised to include the caveat that they have the option to opt out of the program while others can volunteer, CNBC…
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For Sale: A Formerly Popular Dark Web Marketplace
Anybody in the market to buy a defunct darknet site? If you are, you might try reaching out to the backers of Genesis Market, the once high-and-mighty peddler of stolen data. They seem to be getting desperate to sell their once prized possession for scrap. The Record reports that a number of posts have recently…
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Australia Threatens to Fine Musk’s Twitter $700,000 Per Day Over Hate Speech
Australia’s eSafety commissioner said that hate has skyrocketed on the social network – potentially in violation of Australian law.