tech-realism

My brain is caught in a subroutine deciding whether this is hilarious or terrifying. Mostly the first. pic.twitter.com/bSz6HCz4Le— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 7, 2022

Hackers infiltrated the Mexican Defense Ministry, publishing millions of emails that detail the military’s growing influence over the civilian government.

While digital records have improved the delivery of health care and introduced features—such as alerts about potential drug allergies—that can prevent medical errors and patient harm, they have also created unforeseen safety risks and contributed to serious mistakes in treatment. Unintended consequences have resulted from challenges with electronic health records’ (EHRs) usability—meaning the design of these tools, how they’re implemented, and the way clinicians use them.

The hack on the hotel group highlights the potential ripple effects for franchisees, customers and supply chains.

It cannot get anymore dystopian that this.The Israeli army is now using an AI-powered automatic weapon, called Smart Shooter, at a military checkpoint in the old city of Hebron.(video via @abierkhatib) pic.twitter.com/oEVrGcag4b— Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة (@marwasf) September 24, 2022

Federal agencies step in to help with mitigation and investigation efforts.

Companies that manufacture easy-to-assemble firearms are offering products in pieces after the Biden administration rule mandates serial numbers and background checks on kits.

Federal officials are investigating a cyber hack affecting the nation’s second-largest school district.

In the last 5 days, Libs of Tiktok has tweeted and retweeted 14 posts about Boston Children's Hospital. As a result, BCH providers are being inundated in death threats and harassing calls and emails. It's now affecting their services. This is stochastic terrorism, full stop. pic.twitter.com/CEMlRsX6S4— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) August 15, 2022

In which a blogger finds the private key used to sign Hyundai car software updates … by googling it. They used a key pair from a popular tutorial. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/ydoWfjbvsR— Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman) August 13, 2022

Amazon's newest effort to normalize its surveillance network will feature footage from Ring surveillance cameras and commentary from comedian Wanda Sykes.

PALs were not the pals of Strategic Command generals.

Note: The FTC will host a virtual news conference at 12 p.m. ET today on the ANPR announcement.

Amazon’s AWS, Splunk, IBM and others are cooperating on a format for cyber alerts.

Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying and money laundering.

Security chiefs should shop early for coverage and prepare for long questionnaires about their companies’ cyber defenses, industry professionals said.

During a three-week period this year, the credit reporting company sent faulty scores to lenders big and small, resulting in higher interest rates and denied applications.

At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.

We still need the facts about how PACER/CM/ECF was beached and what materials were accessed, but this is terrible news: It was hacked by "three hostile foreign actors." The only way to fix this is with a new system as defined in the Open Courts Act. We need to pass this bill. https://t.co/3ZpjZXWKnC— Free Law Project ⚖ (@FreeLawProject) July 28, 2022

LMAO, anyone else remember the thread on the left? Well, here's how it turned out. pic.twitter.com/nMezrdzI2e— Jerry Aldrich (@jerryaldrichiii) July 26, 2022

We got SOC2 certified so now you have to pay us more.

Gone but not forgotten

Flash loans can have benefits, such as helping traders capitalize on price differences between cryptocurrencies on different exchanges. But flash loans have a dark side.

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times…