The Wall Street Journal reports that cargo hijacking fraud remains a serious problem, with losses set to reach $500 million by 2023, four times the previous year. Victims say load board operators need to do more to verify users’ identities, and law enforcement and regulators need to do more to address theft.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been an important safeguard against hackers for years. Apple, for its part, may require users to tap or click “Allow” on their iPhone or Apple Watch before they can change their password, an important protection against fraudulent password resets. But KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that some hackers are weaponizing these MFA push alerts, sending hundreds of requests to users to force them to allow password resets, or at least deal with very annoying device outages. Even if users do reject all of these password reset alerts, in some cases hackers will call users and pretend to be support staff – using identifying information from online databases to falsify their legitimacy – to socialize them works to reset their password. password. The solution to the problem appears to be “rate limiting,” a standard security feature that limits the number of times someone can try a password or attempt to change sensitive settings within a specific time period. In fact, hackers may be exploiting a vulnerability in Apple’s rate limits to carry out a quick attack, although the company did not respond to Krebs’ request for comment.
Israel has long been accused of using Palestinians as subjects to experiment with surveillance and security technology, which it then exports around the world. The surveillance now includes Palestinian Population use of controversial and potentially unreliable facial recognition tools. New York Times Israeli military intelligence reportedly adopted a facial recognition tool developed by a private technology company called Corsight and used it to identify Hamas members, specifically those involved in the October 7 attacks, despite concerns The technology sometimes glitches. and generate false positives. For example, in one case, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was pulled out of a crowd by soldiers who somehow recognized his name, and then he was beaten and charged was a member of Hamas and was interrogated before soldiers told him the interrogation was a “mistake.”
In other dystopian AI news, protector This week reported on a government project in San Jose, California, that uses artificial intelligence computer vision technology to identify homeless encampments and vehicles. In the project, videos recorded from cars driving around the city are provided to participating companies including Ash Sensors, Sensen.AI, Xloop Digital, Blue Dome Technologies and CityRover, which use it as training data to develop a system that can identify tents or tents. system. While the program is described as a way to identify and help those in need, advocates for San Jose’s homeless say they worry the data could be given to police and, as a result, it would only target the city’s most vulnerable. Another form of surveillance of vulnerable residents.
Ammon Bundy, a prominent far-right figure who has been on the run since last year, was charged with child trafficking and ordered to pay $50 million to an Idaho hospital and Charged with contempt of court. Harassment campaigns against its employees. Last month, he posted a provocative video on YouTube titled “Wonder Where Ammon Bundy is?” Bellingcat’s open-source detectives apparently did: They found enough evidence in Bundy’s video , convincingly revealing his location. Bellingcat was able to place Bundy in a county in southern Utah using a school calendar in the background of one shot, a mountain range in another, and materials like highway signs in a third. When contacted by Bellingcat, Bundy denied hiding and wrote somewhat confusingly, “Peace officers can find me at any time if they want.”