How your solar rooftop became a national security issue

How your solar rooftop became a national security issue

James Showalter describes a pretty specific if not entirely implausible nightmare scenario. Someone drives up to your house, cracks your Wi-Fi password, and then starts messing with the solar inverter mounted beside your garage — that unassuming gray box that converts the direct current from your rooftop panels into the alternating current that powers your…

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles. Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed…

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Crypto investor falls victim to phishing scam, loses M with single click

Crypto investor falls victim to phishing scam, loses $3M with single click

Crypto scammers are switching from code to exploiting human vulnerabilities that don’t require breaking through complex cybersecurity guardrails. A cryptocurrency investor lost $3 million in a phishing scam after signing a malicious blockchain transaction without verifying the contract address, highlighting the risk posed by digital asset scams. A single wrong click was all it took…

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Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities

Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities

Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities.  Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software. Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company’s AI department DeepMind as…

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