US State Dept issues Best Practices for Military use of AI
The “Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy” was released by the US State department on Thursday, explaining their 12 best practices for the development and…
GoDaddy reports major breach spanning 3 years
One of the world’s largest domain registers and hosts was breached in a multi-year attack that compromised customer accounts and their websites, as reported to the SEC. GoDaddy said in…
GoAnywhere vulnerability to blame for 1mil patient info theft
Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tennessee reported to the SEC that they were breached via GoAnywhere MFT, a managed file transfer product by Fortra. 1 million patients’ data were stolen…
Indigo Books breached, payment and points data safe
The retail bookstore that also operates Coles and Chapters locations throughout Canada had their website taken offline on Feb. 8th, citing a “cybersecurity incident“. The breach limited in-store payments to…
Increased risk of cyber attacks on EU financial/power systems says cyber watchdog
State sponsored attacks on European power, telecom and financial systems are still a major concern, despite recent efforts to shore up defenses, according to a report by the European Systemic…
Almost 11 000 WordPress sites infected with Malware but no one knows how
Security firm Sucuri reports that obfuscated code had been injected into the configuration files of infected sites, working as a backdoor and allowing the attacker to redirect visitors to other…
AI DeepFake Audio tool to further misinformation crisis
Prime Voice AI, a tool in beta release created by ElevenLabs, was invented to allow movies and games to be dubbed into different languages while using the same voice. However,…
Bahrain airport and state news sites hacked, back online
On the 12th anniversary of their Arab Spring, a group named Al-Toufan, or “The Flood” claims to have taken down both the state-run Bahrain News Agency and the Bahrain International…
Oakland hit by ransomware, continues to experience network outage of several non-emergency systems
The City of Oakland, California was hit by a ransomware attack on Feb. 8th and some of their non-critical systems are still down, according to their website. “The Information Technology…
Windows 11 spying on users more than any previous version
“The PC Security Channel” on YouTube has demonstrated using the network analyzer ‘WireShark’ that a fresh installation of Windows 11 immediately starts sending telemetry data to not only Microsoft, but…