Artificial intelligence just made guessing your password a whole lot easier

Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to create a program that, combined with existing tools, figured more than a quarter of the passwords from a set of more than 43 million LinkedIn profiles. Yet the researchers say the technology may also be used to beat baddies at their own game. […] The Read more about Artificial intelligence just made guessing your password a whole lot easier[…]

BlueBorne: Turn off your bluetooth

Armis Labs revealed a new attack vector endangering major mobile, desktop, and IoT operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux, and the devices using them. The new vector is dubbed “BlueBorne”, as it spread through the air (airborne) and attacks devices via Bluetooth. Armis has also disclosed eight related zero-day vulnerabilities, four of which Read more about BlueBorne: Turn off your bluetooth[…]

Outlook.com looking more like an outage outbreak for Europe

Microsoft’s email services got hit with not one but two bugs today: in addition to an earlier blip with Exchange Online, Microsoft confirmed it is now probing “issues” with “some” Outlook.com users in Europe. According to downdetector.com, more than a thousand users have reported problems such as trouble receiving messages and logging in to their Read more about Outlook.com looking more like an outage outbreak for Europe[…]

Introducing: Unity Machine Learning Agents for Tensorflow

Unity Machine Learning Agents We call our solution Unity Machine Learning Agents (ML-Agents for short), and are happy to be releasing an open beta version of our SDK today! The ML-Agents SDK allows researchers and developers to transform games and simulations created using the Unity Editor into environments where intelligent agents can be trained using Read more about Introducing: Unity Machine Learning Agents for Tensorflow[…]

Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails

One of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients, the Guardian can reveal. […] One of the largest private firms in the US, which reported a record $37bn (£27.3bn) revenue last year, Deloitte provides auditing, tax Read more about Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails[…]