https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/hong-kong-company-deepfake-video-conference-call-scam
Police investigate after employee tricked into transferring money to fraudsters posing as senior officers of her firm
Chinese authorities recently said they’re using an advanced encryption attack to de-anonymize users of AirDrop in an effort to crack down on citizens who use the Apple file-sharing feature to mass-distribute content that’s outlawed in that country.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/01/tiktok-editorial-analysis.html
TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hackers were also able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry.” But 23andMe would not say how many “other users” were impacted by the breach that the company initially disclosed in early October.
As it turns out, there were a lot of “other users” who were victims of this data breach: 6.9 million affected individuals in total.
In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson Katie Watson confirmed that hackers accessed the personal information of about 5.5 million people who opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature, which allows customers to automatically share some of their data with others. The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html
In this talk, I am going to make several arguments. One, that there are two different kinds of trust—interpersonal trust and social trust—and that we regularly confuse them. Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. We will make a fundamental category error. We will think of AIs as friends when they’re really just services. Three, that the corporations controlling AI systems will take advantage of our confusion to take advantage of us. They will not be trustworthy. And four, that it is the role of government to create trust in society. And therefore, it is their role to create an environment for trustworthy AI. And that means regulation. Not regulating AI, but regulating the organizations that control and use AI.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/04/sellafield-nuclear-site-hacked-groups-russia-china
It is still not known if the malware has been eradicated. It may mean some of Sellafield’s most sensitive activities, such as moving radioactive waste, monitoring for leaks of dangerous material and checking for fires, have been compromised.
Sources suggest it is likely foreign hackers have accessed the highest echelons of confidential material at the site, which sprawls across 6 sq km (2 sq miles) on the Cumbrian coast and is one of the most hazardous in the world.
Sellafield covers 6 sq km on the Cumbrian coast and is one of the most hazardous nuclear sites in the world. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
The full extent of any data loss and any ongoing risks to systems was made harder to quantify by Sellafield’s failure to alert nuclear regulators for several years, sources said.
However, the team said the results did not hold for images of people of colour, possibly because the algorithm used to generate AI faces was largely trained on images of white people.
Somewhat ironically, while humans seem unable to tell apart real faces from those generated by AI, the team developed a machine learning system that can do so with 94% accuracy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709
A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling, reports say.
https://nrkbeta.no/2023/10/31/forbud-mot-meta-om-bruk-av-persondata-utvides-til-hele-eos/
Datatilsynet vant frem hos Personvernrådet i EU. Tilsynets forbud utvides til flere land.
– Dette er en historisk dag for personvernet, skriver direktør i Datatilsynet Line Coll i en uttalelse til NRK.Datatilsynet beordret i sommer Meta å stanse bruken av nordmenns persondata til adferdsbasert reklame.
Teknologikjempen, som eier Facebook og Instagram, har siden august fått én million i daglige bøter for å ikke følge vedtaket.
Siden har tilsynet bedt Personvernrådet i EU (EDPB) om en bindende hastebeslutning. Denne beslutningen gjør tilsynets vedtak permanent og gjeldende for hele EØS-området. Tidligere gjaldt vedtaket kun for Norge og kun for en midlertidig periode.