Proton, known for its privacy focused set of services, announced the introduction of Lumo, a privacy-first Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot. It is good to know before you dive in that Proton’s chatbot has two user options that offer a very different experience. If you want Lumo to access the internet you will have to use […]
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A tech startup is using personal data stolen by infostealer malware that it has found on the dark web, and then selling access to that data. And it claims to be working within the law. According to 404 Media, for as little as $50, Farnsworth Intelligence will give companies a look at records from infostealer
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A woman in Florida was tricked into giving thousands of dollars to a scammer after her daughter’s voice was AI-cloned and used in a scam. Sharon Brightwell says she received a call from someone who sounded just like her daughter. The woman on the other end was sobbing and crying, telling her mom that she
In the last week, countless Amazon Ring users on TikTok, Reddit, and X have been saying they believe their Ring cameras were hacked starting May 28. Many posted screenshots of their accounts, showing multiple unauthorized device logins, making these claims hard to ignore. Forbes looked into the issue and even the journalist found several logins
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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Meta execs pay the pain away with $8 billion privacy settlement Adoption agency leaks over a million records Meta AI chatbot bug could have allowed anyone to see private conversations WeTransfer walks back clause that said it would train AI on your files Chrome fixes 6 security vulnerabilities. Get the
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Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and several other members of the social media giant’s top brass agreed to settle increasingly heated privacy violation claims for the price of $8 billion. It is far from the first time that the company, its subsidiary Facebook, or its executives have responded to alleged user privacy violations with billions upon
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Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database online that contained highly personal information from an adoption agency. Jeremiah, who specializes in locating exposed cloud storage, is used to finding sensitive information exposed. However, because of the nature of the information, this one immediately raised his concern and he hurried to find out who
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A researcher has disclosed to TechCrunch that he received a $10,000 bounty for reporting a bug that let anyone access private prompts and responses with the Meta AI chatbot. On June 13, we reported that the Meta AI app publicly exposes user conversations, often without users realizing it. In these cases, the app made “shared”
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File sharing site WeTransfer has rolled back language that allowed it to train machine learning models on any files that its users uploaded. The change was made after criticisms from its users. The company had quietly inserted the new language in the terms and conditions on its website. Sometime after July 2, it updated clause
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Google has released an update for its Chrome browser to patch six security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day. This update is crucial since it addresses one actively exploited vulnerability which can be abused when the user visits a malicious website. It doesn’t require any further user interaction, which means the user doesn’t need to click on anything in
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