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“Log-out king” Instagram scammer gets accounts taken down, then charges to reinstate them

March 29, 2023 admin 0 Comments baas, ban-as-a-service, instagram scam, instascammer, news, obn, obn brandon, obnbrandon, takedown-for-hire

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A fraudster going by OBN Brandon has been defrauding Instagram influencers and entertainment figures out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by taking down their accounts and then asking for money to get them back up again.

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ChatGPT happy to write ransomware, just really bad at it

March 29, 2023 admin 0 Comments

We asked ChatGPT to help us write some ransomware. It threw aside its safeguards and wrote some terrible code.

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Fake DDoS services set up to trap cybercriminals

March 28, 2023 admin 0 Comments booter, ddos, distributed denial of service, National Crime Agency, NCA, news, underground

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The British National Crime Agency has been setting up fake DDoS services to teach people a lesson in what not to do online.

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ChatGPT helps both criminals and law enforcement, says Europol report

March 28, 2023 admin 0 Comments chatgpt, impersonating, jailbreak, large language models, llms, misinformation, news, restrictions

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Subject matter experts at Europol were asked to explore how criminals can abuse LLMs such as ChatGPT, as well as how they may assist investigators in their daily work

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Solving the password’s hardest problem with passkeys, featuring Anna Pobletts

March 27, 2023 admin 0 Comments podcast

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This week on Lock and Code, we speak with Anna Pobletts about the death of passwords, and how passkeys can become the non-compromising fix to authentication’s biggest problems.