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Hackers can steal data by messing with a computer’s processor

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Watch out – hackers have a new way to get at your data Shutterstock Copyright: solarseven/Shutterstock Hackers could extract information from software that has been banned from connecting to the internet, by adjusting the speed of a computer’s processor up or down and encoding data in the fluctuations. Details of these fluctuations could then be … Read more

ChatGPT wrote code that can make databases leak sensitive information

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ChatGPT in web and mobile development

A vulnerability in Open AI’s ChatGPT – now fixed – could have been used by malicious actors Amir Sajjad/Shutterstock Researchers manipulated ChatGPT and five other commercial AI tools to create malicious code that could leak sensitive information from online databases, delete critical data or disrupt database cloud services in a first-of-its-kind demonstration. The work has … Read more

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption

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The US National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images A prominent cryptography expert has told New Scientist that a US spy agency could be weakening a new generation of algorithms designed to protect against hackers equipped with quantum computers. Daniel Bernstein at the University of Illinois Chicago says that … Read more

Hackers can make computers destroy their own chips with electricity

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A feature of server motherboards intended to allow remote updates can be abused to trick the machines into damaging themselves beyond repair Technology 19 January 2023 By Matthew Sparkes A remote hack could make servers fry the chips inside them canjoena/Getty Images A flaw in the control systems of server motherboards means they can be … Read more