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Getting a stranger’s phone kicked off the cellular network costs a few dollars
Researchers at Michigan State University and three partner schools bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, copied the identification number printed on the sealed box, and reported …
OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI
OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined …
Researchers built a $7 gadget for anyone paranoid about hidden cameras in hotel rooms
Most of us, staying in a hotel room or a vacation rental, have wondered at least once whether we’re safe there, whether someone might be watching or recording us without …
A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller
Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them moving together, on …
Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported
A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed …
An AI CAPTCHA solver talked itself out of the right answer
You have probably spent a few seconds of your life turning a picture until it lines up. Some sites, instead of asking you to tick a box, show you a circular chunk of a photo …
A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains
A phrase on a suspicious website turned into an investigation of phantom banks built to support scams, according to new research from Allure Security. Molly DeQuattro, the …
Researchers find a loophole that lets expired credit cards make unauthorized payments
A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown that a contactless credit card keeps working past its printed expiration date, even after the cardholder gets a …
Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without physically opening or …
When companies get specific about AI, revenue growth looks different
Companies that provide specific evidence of how they use AI tend to record stronger revenue growth. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Larridin examined a study …
A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months
Most security stories start with something broken. This one starts with everything working as designed. Researchers at Reco have been tracking a campaign they call City-Forum, …
Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G
Researchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers to steal information, …
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