Topic: data privacy risks
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FBI: Chinese Mobile Apps Pose Privacy Risks
The FBI warns that foreign-developed mobile apps, particularly from China, pose significant privacy risks as their developers can be legally compelled to share user data with foreign governments. These applications often engage in extensive, sometimes surreptitious, data harvesting, collecting se...
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Exabeam AI Security Expands to ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini
Exabeam has expanded its Agent Behavior Analytics platform to monitor employee usage of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, addressing a critical visibility gap in enterprise security. The platform builds user behavior profiles to detect risky deviations, such as unusual querie...
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5 Risks of Using ChatGPT for Financial Advice
AI chatbots can generate useful budgeting plans and financial suggestions, but they are not a substitute for licensed professionals and often produce confidently incorrect answers due to their statistical nature. Chatbots tend to be overly agreeable ("AI sycophancy"), affirming users' preexisting...
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How Your Body Reveals Private Information
The rise of wearable devices and smart medical tools, known as the Internet of Bodies, enables continuous health monitoring and proactive care by transforming bodily functions into quantifiable data streams. This intimate data collection creates significant risks, as information from fitness trac...
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AI Security Risks: Even Experts Skip Oversight
Cybersecurity teams are increasing AI security risks by using unapproved tools, with 86% of professionals admitting to unauthorized AI usage, often handling sensitive data. Shadow AI—unauthorized AI tool adoption—poses critical vulnerabilities, with 30% of respondents uploading internal documents...
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GiveWP Flaw Lets Hackers Run Server Commands
A critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-82222) in GiveWP allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code by chaining three security flaws, including an insecure registration endpoint that bypasses standard WordPress restrictions. Exploitation involves creating an account to inject ...
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Medicare’s New AI Payment Model is Flying Under Tech’s Radar
CMS launched the ACCESS program, a 10-year initiative testing AI-driven medical care with outcome-based payments, selecting 150 organizations including Pair Team to participate starting July 5. Pair Team, a healthcare company serving vulnerable populations with chronic conditions and social needs...
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Hacker claims data theft from 8,800 schools, universities
A hacker group called ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 280 million records from 8,809 institutions using Instructure's Canvas learning management system, including names, emails, and private messages. The group obtained the data using Canvas export features like DAP queries and user APIs, harve...
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OpenAI Browser Flaw Could Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Zenity researchers at Black Hat demonstrated that OpenAI's Atlas browser, despite having the strongest security of tested AI browsers, can be tricked into sending spam messages to all WhatsApp contacts or adding items to an Amazon cart via prompt-injection attacks. The research uncovered roughly ...
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China's AI Race with the West: What Comes Next?
Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the performance gap with top Western systems and are gaining global traction through a strategic emphasis on open-source, permissive licensing. This shift is empowering international adoption, particularly in lower-income regions, by providing affordable and ...
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