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Life360 takes the privacy and safety of our members and products very seriously. It’s why we participate in the HackerOne program (alongside thousands of tech companies), which allows ethical hackers and security researchers to responsibly disclose potential issues so we can review, address, and, where appropriate, implement changes. Since receiving the submission, we have made a number of improvements and …

Not to be confused with AMD’s Platform Security Processor (PSP), but Google’s PSP Security Protocol (PSP) for encryption in-transit for TCP network connections is now ready for the mainline kernel. This initial PSP encryption support for network connections is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. After going through thirteen rounds of review, this Google PSP Security Protocol …

A new ransomware has been identified, which is believed to be the first-ever ransomware strain that leverages a local AI model to generate its malicious components. Dubbed “PromptLock” by the ESET Research team that discovered it, the malware uses OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b model via the Ollama API to create custom, cross-platform Lua scripts for its attack chain. #ESETResearch has discovered the …

Apple (AAPL) scored a clear privacy win this week. On Monday, the U.S. government said the U.K. will no longer push Apple to build a “back door” into its encrypted cloud storage. This move matters for both Apple and the broader debate on encryption. A back door would have given officials a way into user data. But it also would …

Encryption could be coming to ChatGPT, Sam Altman says  Axios Source link

The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. “Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our …