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An apparently “limited” data breach at an Aussie telco giant turned out to have leaked 280,000 customer details
TPG Telecom confirmed a cyberattack with the country’s securities exchange agency Unidentified crooks stole an employee’s account login and used it to exfiltrate sensitive data Customers of its iiNet sub-brand were affected TPG Telecom, a major Australian telecommunications provider, suffered what it described as a “limited” cyberattack – however, judging…
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Just a tap, and it’s gone – experts warn scammers are now loading your stolen details onto burner phones in devious “ghost tapping” scams
Stolen payment card data is fueling ghost tapping fraud worldwide Burner phones are turning identity theft into organized retail scams Luxury goods bought with ghost tapping are quickly resold online Digital payment services have long promised speed and ease, but the same systems are increasingly being manipulated for fraud. Recorded…
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Apple employees built an LLM that taught itself to produce good user interface code – but worryingly, it did so independently
Apple started with almost no Swift examples and achieved surprising results StarChat-Beta was pushed into uncharted territory without clear guidance Nearly one million working SwiftUI programs emerged after repeated iterations Apple researchers recently revealed an experiment in which an AI model was trained to generate user interface code in SwiftUI,…
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“The dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” – AWS CEO slams plans for AI to replace junior human workers
AWS CEO Matt Garman says younger workers are the most engaged with AI They’re also cheap to train up with skills for the future Workers need to be prepared to learn, and for change Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman has called the idea of firing junior workers because…
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Google Pixel 10 ditches physical SIM card slots for eSIM-only models
Pixel 10 will not have physical SIM cards slots, Google confirms Buyers can transfer eSIMs from Apple to Android and vice-versa However eSIM adoption is uneven and can pose a risk for unprepared travelers Google has confirmed eSIMs will replace physical SIM card slots in its new Pixel 10 smartphone…
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FBI warns Russian hackers are targeting an old Cisco security flaw, so patch now
The FBI has warned of Russian hackers abusing CVE-2018-0171 Configuration files from “thousands” of Cisco devices were already stolen The bug affects many outdated endpoints, so patch now Russian state-sponsored threat actors are abusing a years-old Cisco vulnerability to spy on organizations in the West, the FBI is warning. In…
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