Cybersecurity Insights: User Awareness and System Vulnerabilities Recent discussions spotlight the ongoing challenges related to user prompts in cybersecurity protocols, which are often meant to safeguard individuals from malicious activities. While the intentions behind such alerts are commendable, their effectiveness largely hinges on users comprehending the warnings and exercising caution…
Massive Data Exposure on WhatsApp Highlights Privacy Vulnerabilities In a significant development for data privacy, researchers from Austria have demonstrated that a systematic check of WhatsApp’s contact discovery feature has led to the exposure of an estimated 3.5 billion phone numbers associated with users of the messaging platform. This capability…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Fraud Risk Management, Regulation Regulatory Pressure Needed for Meta to Address Revenue from Fraudulent Activities Suparna Goswami (gsuparna) • November 14, 2025 (Image: Shutterstock) What would prompt a business to curtail a revenue stream known to exploit its customers? Typically, ethical considerations drive companies to safeguard…
Key Insights: Cisco researchers identified significant security vulnerabilities in several popular open-weight AI models. Multi-turn adversarial attacks were found to be substantially more effective than single interactions. These findings highlight critical concerns regarding AI safety, data privacy, and the integrity of AI models. Cisco has uncovered critical security vulnerabilities in…
Meta’s Battle Against Scam Ads: Insights from Former Executive In 2019, billionaire Dutch television producer John de Mol initiated legal action against Facebook, alleging the platform’s negligence in preventing scammers from misusing his likeness in fraudulent advertisements. In response, Facebook dispatched Rob Leathern to Amsterdam to engage with de Mol’s…
Endpoint Security, Litigation, Standards, Regulations & Compliance U.S. Court Bars NSO Group from WhatsApp and Orders Destruction of Hacking Code Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • October 20, 2025 Image: Shutterstock/NSO Group/ISMG A significant legal ruling from a U.S. district court has permanently restricted Israeli spyware firm NSO Group from utilizing its…
A federal court ruling has mandated that NSO Group, a prominent spyware manufacturer, must cease using its Pegasus application to target WhatsApp users. This significant decision, delivered by Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, comes in response to a lawsuit initiated…
A significant outage affecting Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region, located in northern Virginia, resulted in extensive disruptions to numerous websites and online platforms globally on Monday morning. Amazon’s primary e-commerce site, alongside services such as Ring doorbells and the Alexa smart assistant, experienced substantial interruptions. Other affected platforms included Meta’s…
Emerging Jailbreak Technique Poses New Threats to Language Models Cybersecurity research has recently unveiled a new jailbreak technique that undermines the safety mechanisms of large language models (LLMs), potentially enabling the generation of harmful or malicious content. This multi-turn attack strategy, termed “Bad Likert Judge,” has been revealed by researchers…
