Mark Hughes
@markhughes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@claesdevreese
This would be the biggest failure of government to understand technology and the consequences of deploying it that we've ever seen. #OpenAI however know exactly what they're doing.

The #security implications of this are unfathomable. They may as well publish the data on the web as put it into an #LLM.

#UKLabour#PeterKyle#LLMs
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#Denmark summons #US envoy over claims of interference in #Greenland

Denmark’s foreign minister summoned the top US diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least 3 people with connections to President Donald #Trump have been carrying out #covert #influence operations in Greenland.

#geopolitics#USexpansionism
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-us-trump-6c9544314792cf1e287e21af06111c1e
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Public broadcaster #DR said Danish government & #security sources which it didn’t name, as well as unidentified sources in #Greenland & the #US, believe that at least 3 US nationals w/ connections to #Trump have been carrying out #covert #influence operations in the territory.

1 of those people allegedly compiled a list of US-friendly Greenlanders, collected names of people opposed to Trump & got locals to point out cases that could be used to cast #Denmark in a bad light in US media.
Nick
@internic@mathstodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

A friend found a tab open in Safari on their iPhone that they had not (knowingly) opened and whose history indicated it had visited a succession of locations, including multiple web searches and several different websites (some related to the web searches, some not). What are the likely ways that this could have occurred? Could this indicate a larger problem?

My best guess is that a site they opened had ads from some ad network with malvertizing on it that opened the extra tab and caused it to visit the various locations, but I'm really not sure.

#infosec #security #malware#iOS#iPhone
Nick
@internic@mathstodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

A friend found a tab open in Safari on their iPhone that they had not (knowingly) opened and whose history indicated it had visited a succession of locations, including multiple web searches and several different websites (some related to the web searches, some not). What are the likely ways that this could have occurred? Could this indicate a larger problem?

My best guess is that a site they opened had ads from some ad network with malvertizing on it that opened the extra tab and caused it to visit the various locations, but I'm really not sure.

#infosec #security #malware#iOS#iPhone
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

The account by the #whistleblower, Charles Borges, underscores concerns that have led to lawsuits seeking to block young software engineers at the agency built by #ElonMusk from having access to #confidential government #data. In his complaint, Borges said #DOGE members copied the data to an internal agency server that only DOGE could access, forgoing the type of “independent security monitoring” normally required under agency policy for such sensitive data & creating “enormous vulnerabilities.”
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Borges did not indicate that the database had been breached or used inappropriately.

But his disclosure stated that as of late June, “no verified audit or oversight mechanisms” existed to monitor what #DOGE was using the #data for or whether it was being shared outside the agency. That kind of #oversight would typically be provided by the agency’s career #information #security professionals, Borges said in his account.

#Trump#Musk#InfoSec #privacy #law