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  • "ChatGPT Is a Data Privacy Nightmare. If You've Ever Posted Online, You Ought to Be Concerned"
    According to Uri Gal, a Professor of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney Business School, ChatGPT poses significant privacy risks. ChatGPT is supported by a Large Language Model (LLM) that requires large quantities of data to…
  • "3.3 Million Impacted by Ransomware Attack at California Healthcare Provider"
    The personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of more than 3.3 million individuals were recently stolen in a ransomware attack at California healthcare provider Regal Medical Group.  The incident occurred on…
  • "Pig Butchering Scams Are Evolving Fast"
    Pig butchering scams have already resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars. Although attackers, primarily crime groups in China, have written scripts and playbooks for carrying out the attacks, new discoveries from researchers at the…
  • "Cybersecurity Experts Warn Against Valentine's Day Romance Scams"
    Several US government agencies and non-profits have recently warned individuals against romance scams connected with Valentine's Day.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued two separate statements over the last week to warn citizens…
  • "Information Overload Is a Key Barrier to Effective Threat Intelligence, Says Mandiant"
    Nearly half of organizations identify applying threat intelligence throughout cybersecurity operations as one of the top difficulties they face today. Although most business leaders (96 percent) are satisfied with the quality of threat information their…
  • "Indian Social Media App Slick Exposed Childrens' User Data"
    The Indian social media app Slick exposed an internal database containing users' personal information, including information belonging to school children. Since December 11, a database including the complete names, mobile phone numbers, birth dates, and…
  • "Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data"
    Researchers at USC Viterbi have created a data-securing algorithm that enhances fairness. Shen Yan, a newly graduated Ph.D. student at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and co-author of "FairFed: Enabling Group Fairness in Federated…
  • "Millions of Online Shoppers Could Be at Risk From Hardcoded Shopify Tokens"
    Millions of Android e-commerce app users are at risk of having their sensitive data obtained by criminals. According to a recent analysis by BeVigil of CloudSEK, researchers discovered 21 e-commerce apps with 22 hardcoded Shopify Application Programming…
  • "Pro-Russia Hacker Group Killnet Targets NATO Websites With DDoS Attacks"
    Killnet, a pro-Russia hacking group, launched a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack against NATO websites, including the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) website. The incident was confirmed by NATO, while the hacker group revealed its…
  • "Integreon CyberHawk-AI Identifies Patterns of Frequently Compromised Information"
    Integreon has recently unveiled the development of CyberHawk-AI, an advanced automated technology that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the process of extracting and analyzing sensitive data following cyber breaches.   The company…
  • "Researchers Uncover 700+ Malicious Open Source Packages"
    Security researchers at Sonatype have discovered another sizeable haul of malicious packages on the npm and PyPI open source registries, which could cause issues if unwittingly downloaded by developers.  The researchers found 691 malicious npm…
  • "City of Oakland Hit by Ransomware Attack"
    The City of Oakland, California, recently announced that it was forced to take some systems offline after falling victim to a ransomware attack.  The cyberattack started last Wednesday night and led to network outages due to systems being…