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AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare.
On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities.
The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s prefe…

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping | TechCrunch
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

Microsoft relied on China-based engineers to maintain SharePoint "OnPrem", which was recently exploited by Chinese hackers to breach US government systems (Renee Dudley/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-sharepoint-hack-china-c…

Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China
Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.

Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot Claude
https://apnews.com/article/reddit-sues-ai-company-anthropic-claude-chatbot-f5ea042beb253a3f05a091e70531692d

Reddit sues Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally scraping data from its site
Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so. Anthropic didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

Rheinland-Pfalz: Auf eine Informatik-Lehrkraft kommen 250 Schüler
Informatik soll zum Pflichtfach werden. Trotz einer Steigerung bei den Nachwuchslehrkräften gibt es weiterhin wenige mit diesem Schwerpunkt in Rheinland-Pfalz.

Interesting....
#microsoft

Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China
Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.

#Microsoft ist, wenn so ein Artikel geschrieben wird: Hier wird das #Sharepoint-Patch-Chaos eingeordnet, damit man nicht nur Patches einspielt, die das zugrundeliegende Problem offenbar keineswegs beheben, wie sie behauptet haben:

Microsofts "Secure Future Initiative"? Eher "Secure Future Fassade". Nach dem Sharepoint-Fiasko und der Cloud-Abzocke zeigt Jürgen Schmidt bei heise: Sicherheit bei Microsoft ist oft ein Lippenbekenntnis, solange der Profit stimmt. Sharepoint spielt Risiko-Limbo, und Billig-Admins aus China sorgen für das i-Tüpfelchen. Sicher ist anders! – Sicherheit ist mehr als Marketingparolen. - Microsofts Secure Future Initiative: "Bullshit!"

Cloudflare lässt KI-Crawler auflaufen, wenn nicht für Scraping bezahlt wird
Webseiten können nun von Cloudflare standardmäßig vor Crawler-Zugriffen geschützt werden. KI-Firmen können Betreiber aber auch für Content-Scraping bezahlen.

Check out today's Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--US Senate confirms Cairncross as National Cyber Director,
--Dutch Caribbean offices hit by cyberattacks,
--SharePoint was supported by Chinese engineers,
--Hackers stole crypto now worth $14.5b from LuBain in 2020,
--CISA and USCG found a bunch of OT misconfigs,
--CISA unveils malware analysis platform Thorium,
--DHS to give…

US Senate confirms Cairncross as National Cyber Director
Dutch Caribbean offices hit by cyberattacks, SharePoint was supported by Chinese engineers, Hackers stole crypto now worth $14.5b from LuBain in 2020, CISA and USCG found a bunch of OT misconfigs, CISA unveils malware analysis platform Thorium, DHS to give $100m for state and local cyber, much more

Lange Texte auf Kurznachrichtendienst: Textanhang als neue Funktion auf Threads
Weil auf Threads regelmäßig Screenshots längerer Texte geteilt werden, hat Meta eine Funktion ergänzt: Jetzt kann man bis zu 10.000 Zeichen im Anhang schreiben.