Plus: Flock Safety faces Congressional scrutiny; new vulnerabilities revealed at DEF CON and Black hat conferences.
The breach hit two components of the judiciary’s records system: Case Management/Electronic Case Files, or CM/ECF, used by legal professionals to upload and manage case documents; and PACER, which is used by the public (includingIt’s unclear who carried out the breach, which is still being investigated, though the possibility of a nation state-sponsored attack hasn’t been ruled out.
Neither the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which runs the records systems, nor the Justice Department have commented. The breach itself poses a number of potential harms down the road. Any leak could expose–and consequently endanger–confidential sources. It could also tip off suspects being investigated, but who haven’t yet been arrested or charged, given them a chance to destroy evidence or otherwise cover up their tracks. Given the sensitivity of the data hosted on the platform, you might expect it to be well secured. But earlier this year, Michael Scudder, chair of the Committee on Information Technology for the federal courts’ national policymaking body, told the House Judiciary Committee the systems were “outdated, unsustainable due to cyber risks, and require replacement.”, which has been doing plenty of reporting on Flock Safety, reports that two members of Congress have launched a formal investigation into the company. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will be looking into Flock’s “role in enabling invasive surveillance practices that threaten the privacy, safety, and civil liberties of women, immigrants, and other vulnerable Americans.” Last week, Vegas was home to two major cybersecurity conferences: the Black Hat and DEF CON. These annual gatherings of security pros produced a ton of new security findings. Some highlights:to mess with smart home devices. It began with a poisoned Google Calendar invitation, which included instructions to turn on smart home products. When Gemini was later asked to summarize upcoming calendar events, the instructions were triggered to turn off lights and switch a connected boiler on. Google said the research had led it to speed up security improvements to protect against similar attacks.Cyberscoop. They claimed that may increase the risk of user information being exposed. Apple said it didn’t agree with the findings and said they didn’t represent privacy violations.Also at DEF CON, a group of researchers from Samsung and Georgia Tech, called Team Atlanta, won the $4 million top prize of the AI Cyber Challenge, run by the Pentagon’s research arm DARPA. Their winning entry was an AI program that could autonomously find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities. “As hackers we started this competition as AI skeptics, but now we truly believe in the potential of adopting large language models when solving security problems,” said Georgia Tech professor and Samsung’s vice president of research Taesoo Kim.
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