OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.

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New Pink Extortion Group Targets Microsoft 365 Cloud Data Via Vishing Scams

Cybersecurity researchers are warning businesses about Pink Extortion Group, a threat actor that uses voice phishing to bypass multi-factor authentication and steal files from cloud environments.

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New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration

OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks.

The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and

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The Apple Watch needs a better Siri more than the iPhone right now

Apple’s partnership with Google could supercharge its own health suite and wearable. Here’s how.

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Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming

Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.

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The 7 coolest gadgets I saw at Computex 2026 (and when you can buy each one)

Nvidia announced its new RTX Spark processor at Computex 2026, launching a wave of new high-performance ultrabooks.

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Acer Swift Air 14 vs. MacBook Neo: I compared both budget laptops – this model wins

Acer’s new $699 Swift Air 14 is a direct response to the MacBook Neo. Here’s how it compares, by the specs.

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Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack

Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign.

The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories.

“Access to this

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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs

Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent.

The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release.

Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.

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Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry.

The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world,

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