Monthly Archives: April 2024

Google Warns: Android Zero-Day Flaws in Pixel Phones Exploited by Forensic Companies

Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2024-29745 – An information disclosure flaw in the bootloader component CVE-2024-29748 – A privilege escalation flaw in the firmware component “There are indications that the [

U.S. Cyber Safety Board Slams Microsoft Over Breach by China-Based Hackers

The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year. The findings, released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday, found that the […]

Microsoft and Quantinuum shatter quantum computing boundaries with record-breaking error correction

Microsoft and Quantinuum today announced the creation of the world’s most reliable logical qubits. The breakthrough is achieved with Microsoft’s qubit-virtualization software and error-handling protocols, which when run on Quantinuum’s ion-trap quantum hardware, produced over 14,000 error-free experiments. This unprecedented dependability moves quantum computing from the “noisy” (NISQ) level era to Level 2 Resilient quantum […]

Stability AI takes AI-powered audio generation to the next level with Stable Audio 2.0

After introducing 3D video generation from 2D images last month, Stability AI announced Stable Audio 2.0 to take AI-generated audio to the next level. Stable Audio 2.0 builds upon Stable Audio 1.0 and allows users to generate songs, consisting of intro, development, outro, and stereo sound effects, up to three minutes in length. Apart from […]

Phrasly AI Review: Is It as Good as Advertised?

While looking for an AI writing assistant, I stumbled onto a few platforms that made outrageous claims. Therefore, I decided to test them, starting with this Phrasly AI review. Phrasly claims to rephrase AI content from sources like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, making it indistinguishable from human writing. It also promises to make AI-generated content […]

‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claiming the group had turned over a new leaf and gone legitimate. But new research […]