Meta to pay $1.4 billion over unauthorized facial recognition image capture
Meta has settled a Texas lawsuit over gathering biometric data for Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” feature without informed consent.
Read moreMonth: July 2024
Can GPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?
Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
OpenAI’s newest model is “a data hoover on steroids,” says one expert—but there are still ways to use it while minimizing risk.
Read moreApple fixes Siri vulnerabilities that could have allowed sensitive data theft from locked device. Update now!
Apple has released security updates that patch vulnerabilities in Siri and VoiceOver that could be used to access sensitive user data.
Read moreDon’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck”
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:06:45 +0000
More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds.
Read moreWindows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools
Credit to Author: David Weston| Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:24:03 +0000
We examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.
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Read moreOnyx Sleet uses array of malware to gather intelligence for North Korea
Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:57:18 +0000
On July 25, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted an individual linked to the North Korean threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Onyx Sleet. Microsoft Threat Intelligence collaborated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in tracking activity associated with Onyx Sleet. We will continue to closely monitor Onyx Sleet’s activity to assess changes following the indictment.
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Read moreAI Pulse: Brazil Gets Bold with Meta, Interpol’s Red Flag & more
Credit to Author: AI Team| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000
The second edition of AI Pulse is all about AI regulation: what’s coming, why it matters, and what might happen without it. We look at Brazil’s hard não to Meta, how communities are pushing back against AI training data use, Interpol’s warnings about AI deepfakes, and more.
Read moreThreat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator
Only trust official sources they say, but what happens when a Google vetted ad is for a Google product?
Read moreThe State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2024
Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:52:07 +0000
402 healthcare IT/cybersecurity leaders share their latest ransomware experiences, revealing fresh insights into the realities facing the healthcare sector today.
Read moreA Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:20:51 +0000
This year’s Intelligence Authorization Act would mandate penetration testing for federally certified voting machines and allow independent researchers to work on exposing vulnerabilities.
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