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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure “intact mental health”

The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop. “We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder… Read More »

New type of supply-chain attack hit Apple, Microsoft and 33 other companies

Getty Images reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story Last week, a researcher demonstrated a new supply-chain attack that executed counterfeit code on networks belonging to some of the biggest companies on the planet, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla included. Now, fellow researchers are peppering the Internet with copycat packages, with more than… Read More »

Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network

Nick Wright. Used by permission. reader comments 56 with 51 posters participating Share this story For months, Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen sensitive data from potentially millions of its customers and executed malicious code on their phones and computers, a security researcher said on Thursday. Sam Curry, a… Read More »