Daily Archives: April 14, 2025

• The time has come for AI-generated art

  Posted on April 14, 2025 at 02:45 CDT by Catherine Barrett • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 22.15 • 2025-04-14

  Look for our BONUS issue on April 21, 2025!!

  MEDIA

  

  By Catherine Barrett

  The horse may have five legs, but it’s already out of the barn.

  AI-generated images are here to stay, and we need to learn how to recognize them and use them legitimately. They’re not authoritative depictions of how things look, but they are handy for illustrating ideas. In what follows, I’ll tell you how they work and address ethical and practical concerns.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.15.0, 2025-04-14).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Media AI, ChatGPT, Copilot, DALL-E, Generative AI, Google Gemini, Leonardo.ai, Midjourney, Newsletters

• Hackers are using two-factor authentication to infect you

  Posted on April 14, 2025 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  We’ve all seen those are-you-human tests that websites use to screen out data-scraping bots — e.g., click all the cars, enter the code we texted you, etc. — but, unfortunately, malicious hackers are now exploiting our trust in these common dialog boxes to trick us into installing malware on our PCs.

  It’s natural for us to simply click through whatever process a particular website may use for two-factor authentication (2FA). But hackers are taking advantage of that sense of familiarity to bypass our usual security measures and infect our machines.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.15.0, 2025-04-14).

  Public Defender Are You Human, ClickFix, Multifactor Authentication, Newsletters, Passkeys, Social Engineering, Two-factor authentication

• 23 and you

  Posted on April 14, 2025 at 02:43 CDT by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

  LEGAL BRIEF

  

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  The pending bankruptcy of 23andMe raises important questions — questions that are relevant not only to those who have trusted that company with personal information, but more generally to anyone who trusts any company with personal information.

  This particular bankruptcy highlights the importance of reviewing user agreements as well as some shortcomings of current federal law. Fortunately, users who act promptly will be able to mitigate the potential risk.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.15.0, 2025-04-14).

  Legal Brief 23 and Me, Bankruptcy, Newsletters, Privacy, Terms of Service

• April’s deluge of patches

  Posted on April 14, 2025 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  It’s a good thing we no longer receive individual updates fixing each unique vulnerability. If we did, we’d be calling “uncle” right about now.

  Historically, the number of patches released each April tends to be large. I attribute this to the final end of the holiday slump, when the folks at Microsoft are back up to full steam and working on fixes with gusto.

  This time around, there are 124 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Azure, .NET, Visual Studio, BitLocker, Kerberos, Windows Hello, OpenSSH, and Windows’ Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.15.0, 2025-04-14).

  Patch Watch CVE-2024-21302, CVE-2025-21204, CVE-2025-26670, CVE-2025-29809, inetpub, KB5002623, KB5002700, KB5055581, KB5057589, Microsoft Edge, Newsletters, Office 2016, Patch Lady Posts, Windows 11 24H2