What a week! On Monday, police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione and accused him of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione’s five-day run from authorities ended after he was seen eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 300 miles from Manhattan, where Thompson was shot the morning of Dec. 4. Authorities said they found Mangione with fake IDs and a 3D-printed “ghost gun” The model is known as FMDA, or “Free Men Don’t Ask.”
Meanwhile, a spate of mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey and neighboring states caused so much chaos that it quickly drew the attention of federal authorities. While many people wondered why the US military couldn’t simply shoot down the dronessay the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and independent experts The drone mystery may not be much of a mysteryand the drones are probably mostly just airplanes.
As for other terrestrial threats, We delved into the right-wing extremist realm of “active clubs”. small groups of young, fitness-oriented men steeped in extremist ideology and linked to several violent attacks. As the man who co-invented the Active Club network, Robert Rundo, was sentenced in federal court this week, Active Clubs are proliferating around the world.
Finally, we investigated fraud schemes Use tiny cameras to gain an illegal advantage in pokerand we asked the ways People will use generative AI to make the world more dangerous.
But that’s not all. Each week we round up the privacy and security news that we haven’t covered in depth ourselves. Click on the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.
Back in May, Microsoft cheering announced Recall, an AI feature for some Windows PCs that silently takes screenshots every five seconds and then allows you to easily search the resulting digital footprint. Have you forgotten where you saw a recipe online? If you type a few keywords into Recall, you could theoretically find the dish again. It didn’t take long for the privacy and security community to do so find gaping Holes in the function.
In response, Microsoft delayed the launch of Recall and eventually made some significant changes– such as Such as enabling Recall instead of the default enablement, better encryption of the information Recall collects, and adding authentication to access the stored data. Recall finally rolled out to some users this month.
However, this week Recall was tested Tom’s Hardware demonstrated that an important security measure from Microsoft can still fail. With the recall setting called “Filter sensitive information” enabled, Tom’s Hardware’s testing found that it still took screenshots of some sensitive information – such as credit card numbers and social security numbers. When the publication entered a credit card number as well as a username and password into a Notepad window, they were captured in the screenshots. “When I filled out a loan application PDF in Microsoft Edge and entered a Social Security number, name, and date of birth, Recall picked that up too,” Avram Piltch writes. However, the tool did not record any input data for some online shops.
