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"Social Dominates as Victims Take $2.7bn Fraud Hit"According to researchers at the FTC, fraud victims lost $2.7bn to scammers operating on social media between January 2021 and June 2023.
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"AI Researchers Expose Critical Vulnerabilities Within Major LLMs"Computer scientists from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) security startup Mindgard and Lancaster University in the UK have demonstrated the possibility of copying large chunks of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Bard in less than a wee
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"Microsoft Offers Up to $15,000 in New AI Bug Bounty Program"Microsoft recently announced the launch of a new bug bounty program focused on artificial intelligence.
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"New Cyber Algorithm Shuts Down Malicious Robotic Attack"Australian researchers have developed an algorithm capable of intercepting a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) cyberattack on an unmanned military robot and shutting it down in seconds.
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"Hardware Security Verification"Cynthia Sturton, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of projects to strengthen hardware security verification.
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"Telegram, AWS Users Targeted by Hidden Malware Code"According to researchers at the cybersecurity company Checkmarx, Telegram, AWS, and Alibaba Cloud users are the target of a new malware campaign that hides malicious code within specific software functions to make it more difficult to detect.
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"Novel Approach to Personal Identification Based on Eye Movements for Recognition and Security Applications"New research explores the application of deep learning to analyze spectrogram images of the human eye and its movements as a biometric tool.
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"'Predator Files' Report Prompts Call for Worldwide Ban on Spyware"Amnesty International has reported on a series of Predator spyware attacks against EU, US, and Asia civil society, journalists, politicians, and academics.
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"California Enacts Delete Act For Data Privacy"California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law the first bill in the US compelling data brokers to delete all personal data of state residents upon request.
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"Vulnerability Exposed in WordPress Plugin User Submitted Posts"Security researchers at Patchstack have discovered a new vulnerability in the User Submitted Posts WordPress plugin (versions 20230902 and below).
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"NSA Releases a Repository of Signatures and Analytics to Secure Operational Technology"Through the exploitation of Internet-accessible and vulnerable Operational Technology (OT) assets, cyber actors have demonstrated their continued determination to conduct malicious cyber activity against critical infrastructure.
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"Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot updates: Now a One-stop Resource for Known Exploited Vulnerabilities and Misconfigurations Linked to Ransomware"Many ransomware incidents are perpetrated by threat actors exploiting known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). However, many organizations may not know that a vulnerability used by ransomware threat actors is on their network.