Posts by Dr Jason R.C. Nurse
The Netherlands is the first European country to approve Tesla’s supervised Full Self-Driving
www.theverge.com/transportati...
Silicon Valley insiders believe we are on the precipice of a world in which AI can improve its own capabilities—but the industry may have just found another way to ratchet up the hype behind its technology, @matteowong.bsky.social and @lilashroff.bsky.social report.
Lead generation websites that offer health insurance quotes collect sensitive personal data and sell it to multiple buyers within seconds of a user clicking submit.
#health #insurance #research
www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/10/h...
Foster City, California said it was forced to pause all public services outside of emergency responses in light of a ransomware attack discovered on Thursday morning.
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In their latest for Binding Hook, @jasonnurse.bsky.social & Will Lyne show that the #ransomware ecosystem has fragmented. It is now crowded with smaller, more agile actors. As the landscape shifts, new threats require new tactics to combat.
Read full article: bindinghook.com/a-fragmented...
Why LinkedIn is a hunting ground for threat actors
The business social networking site is a vast, publicly accessible database of corporate information. Don’t believe everyone on the site is who they say they are.
www.welivesecurity.com/en/social-me...
New research presents the most compelling evidence yet that generative AI directly stores and reproduces material used to train it—a finding that could have massive legal consequences for the tech industry, Alex Reisner reports.
Cybercriminals stole the sensitive information of 17.5 million Instagram accounts, including usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and more.
This data is available for sale on the dark web and can be abused by cybercriminals.
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The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking
Key finding:
“Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking…”
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
.. the very type of crime that they should have been working to stop,” said the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
The three men agreed to pay the ALPHV BlackCat administrators a 20% share of any ransoms received in exchange for access to the ransomware and extortion platform.
🦹🏽♂️ When good guys go bad: “These [security professionals] used their sophisticated cybersecurity training and experience to commit ransomware attacks...”
#cybercrime #ransomware #cybersecurity #justice #crime #profession #extortion
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TechCrunch looks back at the biggest data breaches, disruptive cyberattacks, and damaging hacks of 2025, from the raiding of U.S. government databases to a hack every month in South Korea.
Why do researchers keep finding so many prompt injection issues?
Perhaps it is because many AI system designers and defenders are misunderstanding the risks.🚨
Find out more⬇️
www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/prompt-injecti...
Last month’s #JaguarLandRovercyberattack may cost £3.5B in revenue, but the bigger issue is the impact on 230,000 workers at JLR and in the supply chain facing layoffs, work reductions, and lost wages. @jasonnurse.bsky.social, Tom Johansmeyer & Gareth Mott: bindinghook.com/jaguar-land-...
Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
Under the new policy, ChatGPT will be trained to no longer engage in "flirtatious talk" with underage users, and additional guardrails will be placed around discussions of suicide.
A person, known as Dr. Jason Nurse, standing in the front of a room having a presentation.
Picture of a city with big colored letters in the foreground that say "Manchester".
Reposted from our colleagues who are currently visiting #EuroUSEC25 in Manchester 🇬🇧
Day 2 of #EuroUSEC25 is about to start, and amazing Dr. Nurse (@jasonnurse.bsky.social) is getting everyone on track for an inspiring day with a lot of good papers.
#SECUSO
Hear from our inspiring panel speaker @jasonnurse.bsky.social, University of Kent and @cybsafe.bsky.social, joining us at the Northern WARP 5th Annual Conference on the 12th September!
Tickets are FREE to anyone in the WARP community 👉 northernwarpconference5.eventbrite.co.uk?aff=BlueSky
ICYMI from Def Con: Eaton Zveare found bugs in a carmaker's centralized dealer web portal that allowed "unfettered access" to customer data and systems inside. Portal allowed remote control of some car functions, like door unlocking. The bugs highlight the risks of these web-connected data portals.
Warm, Encouraging Email From CEO Quickly Identified As Phishing Attempt
Warm, Encouraging Email From CEO Quickly Identified As Phishing Attempt theonion.com/warm-en...
OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information.
The feature rollback follows reports of ChatGPT conversations being discoverable in Google results.
www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/o...
Treating Online Abuse Like Spam
What would happen if technology companies treated online abuse more like spam? A key advantage: users would have the choice to address potentially abusive content or to ignore it altogether. Here’s why that matters: innovation.consumerreports.org/Digital-Hara...