Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 8/27/22
Thieves bilked woman in elaborate romance scam, Peruvian "socialite" who infiltrated NATO society was a GRU operative, Teens rickrolled six schools, "OSINT" Twitter accounts in India target foes
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Massive DHS leak exposes surveillance secrets as archive domain is suspended
Records on more than 41,000 DHS personnel reveal undercover operations and surveillance tools. Bluesky is blocking links to the leak, while the domain hosting its searchable archive has been placed on hold by its registry.
Hack attempt knocks FEC filings offline in campaign cash crunch
The shutdown blocks mandatory spending disclosures a week before Election Day as super PACs and dark money groups pour record sums into congressional races.
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals security failures alongside warnings of runaway AI
The Claude maker paused model training for more than a month and disclosed testing failures that let AI models escape containment, all the while warning of doomsday scenarios.
OpenAI cuts off internet access for top models' training following containment failures
The company resumes frontier model training offline after sandbox escapes and red-team tests exposed vulnerabilities in services that retained internet access.