Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for Friday, January 27, 2023
This episode features discussion on Data Privacy Week, data breaches involving GotTo and Zendesk, an
Data Privacy Week: Consumers, companies differ on privacy priorities, says study
Cisco Systems studies show organizations list legal compliance as a privacy priority, but consumers list transparency as
Data Privacy Week: Build privacy and usability into products, says Telus CPO
The telco’s chief privacy and data officer offers advice to privacy pros and cheif
Cyber Security Today, Jan. 27, 2023 – Over 800,000 victims in a hack, Dutch hacker allegedly pedaled data of everyone in Austria and more.
This episode reports on DDoS attacks in Germany, 61,000 open source Python projects patched on GitHub, Porsche problem with NFTs, facial recognition being allegedly used against lawyer
Google disrupts Dragonbridge group promoting Chinese disinformation on YouTube
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) stated that it terminated over 50,000 accounts used by a China-based group to attempt to influence Western audiences over the last year by creating various channels and populating them with pro-China and anti-American content. TAG has been monitoring Dragonbridge activities since 2019. Much of the content produced by DRAGONBRIDGE is […]
U.S. offers US$10million bounty to anyone with Hive ransomware links
The United States has publicly stated a reward of up to $10 million for any information linking to the Hive ransomware group. This follows the FBI’s revelation that ransomware operations have extorted approximately $100 million from 1,500 businesses since 2021. “If you have information that links Hive or any other malicious cyber actors targeting U.S. […]
Bar prosecutors threaten robot lawyer founder with jail
The much-anticipated appearance in court of the robot lawyer has been canceled after “State Bar prosecutors” threatened the man behind the company that created the chatbot with prison time. Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, tweeted that: “Good morning! Bad news: after receiving threats from State Bar prosecutors, it seems likely they will put me in […]
Bitwarden moves to secure encryption design
Bitwarden, a password vault vendor, has improved the mechanism’s default security configuration in response to increased condemnation of the encryption technique it employs to safeguard users’ secret encryption keys. The number of PBKDF2 hash iterations used to compute the decryption key for a user’s password vault is criticized as being excessive. The media has mostly […]
Microsoft makes available solution for unresponsive start menu
Microsoft has provided a workable solution for Windows 10 and 11 users who have noticed their Start menu has become unresponsive and that some applications will not open or work properly. At the heart of the problem, users discover that not only is the Start menu unresponsive, but also Windows Search and Universal Windows Platform […]
ChatGPT used to fix software bugs
According to researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and University College London, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot is very good at fixing software bugs. “We find that ChatGPT’s bug fixing performance is competitive to the common deep learning approaches CoCoNut and Codex and notably better than the results reported for the standard program repair approaches,” the researchers […]
