Episode #261: Edwin Kwan: Israel-Hamas War Crypto Donation Scams; Hillary coover: Linkedin Chatbot; Mark Miller: Stanford University Breached by Akira Ransomware Group; Mark Miller: This Day in Tech History

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The stories we’re covering today.

 Mark Miller: October 29, 1969. UCLA student Charley Kline attempts to transmit the text, "login", to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute. After the letters L and O are sent, the system crashes, making the first message ever sent on the internet "lo".

Edwin Kwan: Since the Israel-Hamas war, there's been numerous crypto donation scam sites appearing online. Scammers have been capitalizing on the horrific events of the Israel-Hamas conflict by pretending to be legitimate charities and collecting donations.

Hillary Coover: LinkedIn is currently testing the use of generative AI to address cybersecurity queries from its employees and external suppliers. Response times with the chatbot averaged just five seconds compared to the approximately 15 minutes that it took when handled by a human.

Mark Miller: News continues to trickle out about the Akira Ransomware Group breach of the Stanford University Department of Public Safety. This morning, Bitdefender reported that the University is being pressured to pay a ransom of an undisclosed amount in order to stop the leak of 430 gigabytes of private information and confidential documents.