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This week on the Lock and Code podcast… “Connection” was the promise—and goal—of much of the early internet. No longer would people be separated from vital resources and news that was either too hard to reach or made simply inaccessible by governments. No longer would education be guarded behind walls both physical and paid. And […]

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: From threats to apology, hackers pull child data offline after public backlash Your Meta AI conversations may come back as ads in your feed Scam Facebook groups send malicious Android malware to seniors Sendit tricked kids, harvested their data, and faked messages, FTC claims Gemini AI flaws could have exposed

Last week we yelled at some “hackers” that threatened parents after stealing data from their children’s nursery. This followed a BBC report that a group calling itself “Radiant” claimed to have stolen sensitive data related to around 8,000 children from nursery chain Kido, which operates in the UK, US, China, and India. To prove their possession

Meta has announced that conversations with its AI assistant will soon be used for targeted advertising. If you’re the kind of person that notices ads for products just after you spoke about them, you won’t be happy about this update. Meta AI is the company’s generative AI assistant, built into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Sendit’s parent company, saying it signed up children under 13, collected their personal data, and misled them with fake messages and recurring bills. The lawsuit, filed against the app’s owner Iconic Hearts Holdings Inc and CEO Hunter Rice, alleges the company let users under the age of 13

Security researchers discovered three vulnerabilities in Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. Although now patched, this “Trifecta”, as the researchers called it, raises important questions about how safe AI tools really are, especially as they become a part of services many of us use on a daily basis. The flaws were found in three different

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology scrutinized the security of the popular Tile tracker and came out disappointed. Bluetooth trackers are a steadily growing market, and Life360 is one of the major players. In 2021, Amazon expanded its Sidewalk network to include Tile. That means Ring cameras and Echo devices can act as relays,