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"Ohio City Hit by Cyber Incident: What We Know"Cleveland City Hall recently announced a temporary closure after a significant "cyber incident" that impacted the city's systems.
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"EmailGPT Exposed to Prompt Injection Attacks"A new vulnerability has been discovered in EmailGPT, a Google Chrome extension and Application Programming Interface (API) service that uses OpenAI's GPT models to help Gmail users write emails.
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NSA and Universities Partnering to Advance Cybersecurity ResearchNSA Research invited leading university research institutions across the country to the National Cryptologic Museum for a day-long event to tackle the ongoing challenge of securing critical cyber systems.
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"Tech Cybersecurity Duo Recognized for Data Research"Bo Chen and Niusen Chen won Michigan Technological University's 2024 Bhakta Rath Research Award for their work to ensure information on today's mobile devices can be stored securely and deleted permanently.
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"New Gitloker Attacks Wipe GitHub Repos in Extortion Scheme"Attackers are wiping GitHub repositories' contents and asking victims to contact them on Telegram. CronUp security researcher German Fernandez discovered the malicious campaign.
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"'Commando Cat' Digs Its Claws Into Exposed Docker Containers"In a campaign called "Commando Cat," cybercriminals use misconfigured Docker containers to conduct cryptojacking. The campaign emerged earlier this year.
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"Ransomware Report Finds 43% of Data Unrecoverable After Attack"Veeam found that ransomware victims permanently lose an average of 43 percent of the data impacted by an attack.
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"26% of Organizations Lack Any Form of IT Security Training"Hornetsecurity reports that 26 percent of organizations do not train end users on Information Technology (IT) security.
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"Why Hackers Love Logs"Computer log tampering is almost always part of a system compromise. Computer log files record application actions. They help identify system issues like design malfunctions and malicious activity. However, their value is often overlooked.
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"SPECTR Malware Targets Ukraine Defense Forces in SickSync Campaign"The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued a warning about "SPECTR" malware attacks on the country's defense forces. These attacks are part of the "SickSync" espionage campaign.
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"Google Funds New Cybersecurity Clinics at 15 Colleges"Google and the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics awarded 15 colleges, universities, and community colleges up to $1 million each to open cybersecurity clinics at campuses.
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"Microsoft Bows to Public Pressure, Disables Controversial Windows Recall by Default"Microsoft has decided to disable its Windows Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs by default. The feature, considered a security and privacy risk, was turned on by default, requiring users to go through checkboxes to opt out of the software.