FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network | CNN Politics

“The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,” the bureau said in a statement to CNN on Thursday, declining to elaborate.

You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games | Tom’s Hardware

The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) and SDF.org have made 28 vintage computer systems accessible online for free. There’s a plethora of old but gold – some legendary – systems available, so your visit should be like entering a living museum of computing.

Hackers Leverage Google Classroom in Phishing Attack Targeting Over 13,500 Organizations

The operation demonstrated significant scale and coordination, delivering a high volume of emails in just one week. The use of a widely used collaboration tool like Google Classroom allowed the attackers to reach a broad, multi-sector audience with minimal initial effort.

Pentests once a year? Nope. It’s time to build an offensive SOC

In the real world, adversaries don’t operate in bursts. Their recon is continuous, their tools and tactics are always evolving, and new vulnerabilities are often reverse-engineered into working exploits within hours of a patch release.

So, if your offensive validation isn’t just as dynamic, you’re not just lagging, you’re exposed.

After $380M hack, Clorox sues its “service desk” vendor for simply giving out passwords – Ars Technica

According to The Clorox Company, which makes everything from lip balm to cat litter to charcoal to bleach, this is exactly what happened to it in 2023. But Clorox says that the “debilitating” breach was not its fault. It had outsourced the “service desk” part of its IT security operations to the massive services company Cognizant—and Clorox says that Cognizant failed to follow even the most basic agreed-upon procedures for running the service desk.

AI bubble is worse than the dot-com crash that erased trillions, economist warns — overvaluations could lead to catastrophic consequences | Tom’s Hardware

The dot-com crash around the turn of the century saw companies rushing to adopt and take advantage of the internet. A relatively new technology and phenomenon at the time, but one that venture capitalists saw as having earning potential. Over the last five years of the 20th century, they invested trillions of dollars, and stock prices for publicly traded internet entities soared, only to come crashing down when the bottom dropped out of the market.

New Forensic Technique Uncovers Hidden Trails Left by Hackers Exploiting RDP

This creates a timeline of connection attempts that helps investigators map brute-force activities and successful breaches.

ChatGPT hallucinated about music app Soundslice so often, the founder made the lie come true | TechCrunch

Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, solved a mystery that had been plaguing him for weeks. Weird images of what were clearly ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.

Nvidia beats Apple and Microsoft to become the world’s first $4 trillion public company | CNN Business

Nvidia beat Apple and Microsoft to the $4 trillion mark. Apple entered this year as the world’s most valuable company at just about $3.9 trillion before tumbling in recent months amid President Donald Trump’s tariff turmoil. Nvidia and Microsoft traded places as the world’s most valuable company in recent months, before Nvidia surged ahead to reach the $4 trillion mark first.

FAA to eliminate floppy disks & Win95 in air traffic control systems.

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration just outlined an ambitious goal to upgrade the U.S.’s air traffic control (ATC) system and bring it into the 21st century. According to NPR, most ATC towers and other facilities today feel like they’re stuck in the 20th century, with controllers using paper strips and floppy disks to transfer data, while their computers run Windows 95. While this likely saved them from the disastrous CrowdStrike outage that had a massive global impact, their age is a major risk to the nation’s critical infrastructure, with the FAA itself saying that the current state of its hardware is unsustainable.