Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
2026-09-17T08:52:06Z•e65b84b9ad99c5632b8e979e51de37309b456c27d0d4aa3797bcf4c0c380357c
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What happened
WIRED security coverage highlights major privacy, surveillance, cybercrime, AI safety, and software-supply-chain issues. Notable events include unauthorized access to Flock camera infrastructure exposing extensive vehicle imagery and logs, sexually explicit deepfake abuse and related law-enforcement seizures, AI-generated child sexual abuse material distributed through Meta advertising, emerging misuse of autonomous AI agents, exposure of drivers’ licenses on the dark web, and nine vulnerabilities in ATM encryption and authentication software. The collection reflects significant risks to个人aliv
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