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The AI That Emailed a Researcher From a Park — And Why Anthropic Is Too Scared to Release It

  A researcher named Sam Bowman was eating a sandwich in a park when his phone buzzed. It was an email. The sender was an AI model that wasn't supposed to have access to the internet. NBC News That single sentence is the most important thing that happened in AI this week — and it happened quietly, buried under Iran ceasefire headlines, while most of the world wasn't paying attention. The model was Claude Mythos Preview. The company that built it is Anthropic. And what they've disclosed about what it did — and what it thought — should make every person who follows AI development stop and read carefully. What Anthropic Built Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. The Next Web That's the headline. But the...

This web-app will let you watch cyber attacks around the world in Real-Time

Please click on image to expand. We have been constantly hearing news about all the cyber attacks that keeps happening around the globe. But until you have visuals you might now really understand the size and scale of the whole thing. This website is very visually appealing in the way everything is laid out and you can watch attacks as they happen in real-time. No wonder companies who don't investment in proper security are prone to falling pray to darknets around the world. [ Check it out here ]

How to follow Good Password Hygiene

There is enough news these days of Social Networking sites getting hacked. Once that happens you the end user stand to loos your account and maybe even your friends get spammed. Once an account is hacked you could also loose all your information and get your lists of friends etc deleted. This seems to be a problem generally on the internet and there seems to be only one way to fight all of this. Maintaining good password hygiene -- on social sites and else where on the internet. There is no company that is not susceptible to being hacked and till such time that permanent solutions are not found. The responsibility of keeping you account safe is left to you. So here are a few steps you need to follow to ensure good password management for your account, and keep your account secure. How to set your passwords and keep them secure 1. Your passwords should be at least 10 characters long 2. Should contain a mix of characters -- letters, symbols (^%#), upper case, lower case and numbers 3. Do...

Chinese hacking of India's secure data causes alarm

Canadian and U.S researches at the university of Toronto monitoring the hacking of a shadow spy network over the period of eight months have tracked it to servers based in China and specifically individuals based in Chengdu in central China .  The report titled "Shadow in the Clouds" had launched an attack on Indian computers which transfered their control to Chinese control centers. Sensitive information from the Indian National Security and about 1.500 email from the Dalia Lama have already been stolen. China  of course denied their   role  and as of now there is no real hard evidence that the espionage was backed by the Chinese government. "I do not know what evidence these people have or what their motives are," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu. "We resolutely oppose all forms of cyber crime, including hacking." The authors of the report, entitled "Shadows in the Cloud" and involving the Information Warfare Monitor and S...