Author: HackWatchit

Consider this: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s $700 billion conglomerate, operates one of the most influential investor websites on the planet, utilizing HTML that predates YouTube, employing table-based layouts and single-color backgrounds that Buffett personally insists on keeping “simple.” Craigslist processes over 2 billion page views monthly through an interface that hasn’t changed since 2000, deliberately rejecting modern design because founder Craig Newmark believes complexity reduces functionality. Meanwhile, IRS.gov receives 1.4 billion visits annually during tax season through a navigation system so convoluted that TurboTax built a $3 billion business simply by making tax filing less painful. Healthcare.gov’s initial launch disaster…

State-sponsored hackers compromised the email accounts of several Washington Post journalists Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2025 State-sponsored hackers compromised the email accounts of several journalists working at the Washington Post. A cyberattack, likely carried out by state-sponsored hackers, compromised the Microsoft email accounts of Washington Post journalists, including reporters covering China and national security. “A cyberattack on the Washington Post compromised email accounts of several journalists and was potentially the work of a foreign government, company officials told some affected staffers in recent days, according to people familiar with the situation.” reads the report published by The Wall Street Journal.…

In the last couple of years, I have worked mainly with large language models, training, fine-tuning, prompting and so on, since this was highly requested in the market and by users. But I believe that LLMs that work mainly on text is only the beginning of GenAI. At a certain point, everybody will want physical AI, where models can see, hear, feel, and reason in a more grounded, human way. So let’s get started with multimodality. In this notebook, I introduce LLaVA, an architecture capable of interpreting both images and text to generate multimodal responses. In this tutorial, we are…

  The State Department faces the challenge of securing federal identities across the world — including in adversarial locations — while maintaining one of the most complex threat profiles in government. The department’s global operations include 32 bureaus representing the U.S. footprint across nations and time zones, each with a different mission, different risks and different cultural practices. This representation and vulnerable landscape led agency leaders to shift from traditional perimeter security to centralizing identity-focused efforts. The State Department’s cybersecurity strategy begins with the mission of enabling Foreign Service officers to conduct U.S. foreign policy anywhere in the world. Gharun…

Kali Regenold // My time here at Black Hills Information Security has been short so far, but I believe it’s been the most important four months of my computer science and security career. I started at the end of last semester, so sometime in April. At the time I thought I was way in over my head, and I guess I kind of was. I didn’t know the first thing about security. I was super stressed coming in and felt like I knew nothing. I mean, if I made any wrong step the entire company could go down! I was…

Reddit is one of the largest online platforms in the world, where millions of users come together daily to share stories, ask questions, post updates, and exchange opinions on virtually every topic imaginable. In general, Reddit is a legitimate site with strong rules, and it’s supported by a large and active user base that helps report and remove harmful or misleading content. Moderators, both official and community-based, work hard to maintain order and enforce the rules within each subreddit. However, Reddit is not without risks. Some posts may contain false information, misleading advice, or even scams meant to trick you into…

Automotive giant Scania confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident where threat actors used compromised credentials to breach its Financial Services systems and steal insurance claim documents. Scania told BleepingComputer that the attackers emailed several Scania employees, threatening to leak the data online unless their demands were met. Scania is a major Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks, buses, and industrial and marine engines and is a member of the Volkswagen Group. The company, which is known for its durable fuel-efficient engines, employs over 59,000 people and has an annual revenue of $20.5 billion, selling over 100,000 vehicles yearly. Late last week,…

In the early days of cryptocurrency, owning digital assets came with a lot of anxiety. Digital wallets were mostly controlled by a single user through a string of random characters, known as the Private Key. Lose it or forget it, and the treasure would get locked away forever. This “single point of failure” problem scared most people away because it was both inconvenient and terrifying.This vulnerability led to devastating hacks and accidental losses that became cautionary tales in the history of blockchain. From exchanges collapsing due to compromised hot wallets to individuals losing their entire fortune because of losing the…

By Byron V. Acohido Last week at Microsoft Build, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich made headlines by telling the truth. Related: A basis for AI optimism In a rare moment of public candor from a Big Tech executive, Russinovich warned that current AI architectures—particularly autoregressive transformers—have structural limitations we won’t engineer our way past. And more than that, he acknowledged the growing risk of jailbreak-style attacks that can trick AI systems into revealing sensitive content or misbehaving in ways they were explicitly designed to avoid. That moment, captured in a GeekWire field report, marks a turning point: one of the architects…