https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/30/24332181/volkswagen-data-leak-exposed-location-evs
The leak also included the emails, addresses, and phone numbers of drivers in some cases, Der Spiegel reports.
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If anything, this leak serves as yet another reminder of the immense amount of data collected by modern-day vehicles, which Mozilla has called a “privacy nightmare.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1108883/the-8-worst-technology-failures-of-2024/
Vertical farms, woke AI, and 23andMe made our annual list of failed tech.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm
Researchers induced bots to ignore their safeguards without exception.
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and other applications powered by large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore LLM-driven robots. However, a new study now reveals an automated way to hack into such machines with 100 percent success. By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians and robot dogs into hunting for harmful places to detonate bombs.
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/siri-invented-calendar-event/
I saw a suggestion from Siri that I turn on Do Not Disturb until the end of an event in my calendar – a reservation at a restaurant from 8:30 until 10:00 this morning. No such matching event was in Fantastical. It was, however, shown in the Calendar app as a Siri Suggestion.
Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers.
The hacking campaign, nicknamed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history, and it has not yet been fully remediated. Officials on a news call Tuesday refused to set a timetable for declaring the country’s telecommunications systems free of interlopers. Officials had told NBC News that China hacked AT&T, Verizon and Lumen Technologies to spy on customers.
Mange tusen kinesiske biler ruller nå på norske veier. Sikkerhetsekspert advarer om potensialet for overvåkning som finnes i disse bilene.
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I prosjektet de kaller «Lion Cage», som har fått omtale både internasjonalt og i Norge, har de gått grundig gjennom hvordan bilen fungerer, hva slags data den samler inn og hvor den sender dem.
– Vi finner forbausende mye datatrafikk mellom bilen og Kina. Det var en overraskelse. Vi hadde ikke forventa det, sier han.
Prosjektet har funnet ut at bilen kommuniserer med USA, Canada, Kina, men også Russland og Australia.
– Og så ser vi også hvor mye data som sendes. Det er ganske interessant. Selv om bilen er slått av, så vil bilen kommunisere.
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Årsaken til at sikkerhetsekspertene har sett så grundig på de kinesiske bilene er den kinesiske etterretningsloven.
Den tolkes av mange som at ethvert kinesisk selskap må samarbeide med myndighetene når de blir bedt om det.
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632
Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings – taken inside customers’ houses – to train the company’s AI models.
https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising
Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month.
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Ford quietly walked away from another controversial patent application last October after a firestorm of criticism for its plans for a system that would commandeer vehicles whose owners were late to pay and allow them to repossess themselves.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/robot-vacuum-hacked-photos-camera-audio/104414020
The largest home robotics company in the world has failed to fix security issues with its robot vacuums despite being warned about them last year.
Without even entering the building, we were able to silently take photos of the (consenting) owner of a device made by Chinese giant Ecovacs.
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Ecovacs initially said its users “do not need to worry excessively” about Giese’s findings.
After he first revealed the vulnerability in public, the company’s security committee downplayed the issue, saying it requires “specialised hacking tools and physical access to the device”.
It’s hard to square their statement with the reality. All it had taken was my $300 smartphone, and I hadn’t even laid eyes on Sean’s robot until after hacking into it.
Ecovacs eventually said it would fix this security issue. At the time of publication, only some models have been updated to prevent this attack.
Several models — including the latest flagship model released in July this year — remain vulnerable.