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Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees Opinion  Nobody likes The Man. When a traffic cop tells you to straighten up and slow down or else, profound thanks are rarely the first words on your lips. Then you drive past a car embedded in a tree, surrounded by blue lights and cutting equipment. Perhaps Officer Dibble had a point.…

William Boston / Wall Street Journal: How militaries and startups like North.io use AI to analyze data and deploy autonomous underwater vehicles to safeguard deep-sea pipelines and cables  —  Militaries and startups use artificial intelligence to sift through vast amounts of data and power autonomous underwater vehicles …

JPMorgan Chase Bank (Chase) will soon start blocking Zelle payments to social media contacts to combat a significant rise in online scams utilizing the service for fraud. [...]

In 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, continued its commitment to cybersecurity by awarding over $2.3 million through its bug bounty program.  This initiative, which began in 2011, has now surpassed $20 million in total payouts, underscoring Meta’s dedication to collaborating with the global security research community to enhance platform safety […] The post Meta Paid Out $2.3 Million to Researchers via Bug Bounty Program appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Google is working on a new security feature for Android that blocks device owners from changing sensitive settings when a phone call is in progress. Specifically, the in-call anti-scammer protections include preventing users from turning on settings to install apps from unknown sources and granting accessibility access. The development was first reported by Android Authority. Users who attempt

Bid from man tortured by trashed bitcoins seems unlikely to sway city council.

Government agents have "qualified immunity" for 2019 actions.

Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers.

2024 is set to be a record year for scammers who received at least US$9.9 billion in crypto revenues from their illicit activities, according to Chainalysis. This figure is projected to rise to an all-time high of $12.4 billion as ongoing analysis uncovers more fraudulent activity. These findings are part of Chainalysis’ research into scams, highlighting high-yield investment scams (50%) and pig butchering (33%) as the two most prevalent fraud and scams. Pig butchering scams … More → The post Pig butchering scams are exploding appeared first on Help Net Security.

Threat actors who were behind the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products in December 2024 likely also exploited a previously unknown SQL injection flaw in PostgreSQL, according to findings from Rapid7. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-1094 (CVSS score: 8.1), affects the PostgreSQL interactive tool psql. "An