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Valve waited 15 months to patch high-severity flaw. A hacker pounced

(credit: Valve) Researchers have unearthed four game modes that could successfully exploit a critical vulnerability that remained unpatched in the popular Dota 2 video game for 15 months after a fix had become available. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-38003, resided in the open source JavaScript engine from Google known as V8, which is incorporated into...

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Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that

Enlarge (credit: Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and Internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if Twitter suffers a data breach, or to company staffers with the right permissions to access them. Both scenarios are arguably more likely in Elon...

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Microsoft Teams Free data won’t transfer over to Microsoft Teams (free)

Enlarge / Having a great meeting in Microsoft Teams. (credit: Microsoft) There is a free Microsoft Teams tier now, and there will continue to be a free Microsoft Teams tier after April 12, 2023. But in a bureaucratic twist, neither product will have anything to do with the other. Current users of Microsoft Teams Free...

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In Paris demo, Google scrambles to counter ChatGPT but ends up embarrassing itself

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of previously announced technologies in a low-key presentation that included losing a demonstration phone. The demo, which...

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Hackers are selling a service that bypasses ChatGPT restrictions on malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Carol Yepes) Hackers have devised a way to bypass ChatGPT’s restrictions and are using it to sell services that allow people to create malware and phishing emails, researchers said on Wednesday. ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions and perform tasks in a way that mimics...