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"French Employment Agency Data Breach Could Affect 43 Million People"France’s Employment Agency recently suffered a data breach that could affect users who registered over the past 20 years, representing 43 million potential users’ data exposed.
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"Nissan Data Breach Affects 100,000 Individuals"Nissan Oceania recently announced that roughly 100,000 individuals were affected by a data breach resulting from a ransomware attack conducted by a known cybercrime group in late 2023.
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"Ineffable Cryptography: A New Approach to Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure"A team of mathematics researchers from RMIT University's Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CCSRI) collaborated with a tech startup called Tide Foundation to develop a breakthrough cybersecurity technology.
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"VR Headsets Can Be Hacked With an Inception-Style Attack"Researchers at the University of Chicago explored a security flaw in Meta's Quest Virtual Reality (VR) system that could enable hackers to hijack users' headsets, steal sensitive information, and manipulate social interactions.
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"GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs"VUSec, the Systems and Network Security Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and IBM Research Europe have announced Speculative Race Conditions (SRCs) as a new class of vulnerabilities in which thread synchronization primitives using conditional bran
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"The Rise of Cyberattacks on Financial Institutions Highlights the Need to Build a Security Culture"Callie Guenther of Critical Start highlights that recent attacks on large financial institutions such as Bank of America call for companies to develop a security culture.
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"Investment Scams Grow, 13,000 Domains Detected in January 2024"According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), experts have detected and blocked nearly 13,000 fake investment platform domains across more than 7000 IPs in January 2024, a 25% increase from December 2023.
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"DARPA Picks 7 Small Businesses for AI Cyber Challenge"As part of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cyber Challenge, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded seven companies $1 million each to develop a cyber reasoning system.
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"Canada Jails LockBit Affiliate for Four Years"Mikhail Vasiliev, a Russian-Canadian national and LockBit ransomware affiliate, has been sentenced to years in prison after pleading guilty to cyber extortion.
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"Stanford University Data Breach Impacts 27,000 Individuals"Stanford University recently notified 27,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack on its Department of Public Safety (DPS).
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"Critical ChatGPT Plug-in Vulnerabilities Expose Sensitive Data"Salt Labs researchers discovered three security vulnerabilities in ChatGPT extension functions that could enable unauthorized, zero-click access to users' accounts and services.
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"Over 12 Million Auth Secrets and Keys Leaked on GitHub in 2023"According to cybersecurity researchers at GitGuardian, GitHub users accidentally exposed 12.8 million authentication and sensitive secrets in more than 3 million public repositories in 2023, with most still valid after five days.