July 30, 2024 Meta has agreed to pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas over the unauthorized use of biometric data from Facebook users, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced more...
July 30, 2024 In a filing with a federal appeals court, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that TikTok has been collecting sensitive information about American users and transmitting it to China. The DOJ claims that TikTok more...
July 29, 2024 In a landmark decision, a federal district court in New York has ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the U.S. border. more...
July 28, 2024 **Google Apologizes After Passwords Vanish for 15 Million Windows Users** Google has issued an apology after a bug caused a significant number of Windows users to lose access to their saved passwords. The problem, which more...
July 28, 2024 OpenAI is developing new capabilities for its artificial intelligence bot, ChatGPT, in an attempt to surpass Google as the leading search engine. The company is testing a search feature that integrates real-time information into ChatGPT, more...
July 28, 2024 As AI models grow larger, their insatiable need for data is increasingly being met by other AI models generating synthetic data. While this can fill knowledge gaps for chatbots, it also presents the risk of more...
July 25, 2024 CrowdStrike is facing criticism after offering a $10 UberEats voucher to apologize for a global IT outage that disrupted operations across airlines, banks, and hospitals. The outage, caused by a faulty software update, affected 8.5 more...
July 25, 2024 KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor, unknowingly hired a North Korean hacker who attempted to introduce malware into the company’s network. CEO Stu Sjouwerman revealed that the hacker, who used a stolen US identity and an more...
July 25, 2024 A security company accidentally hires a North Korean state actor posing as a software engineer. CrowdStrike issues its Post Incident Review and a failure in crisis communications. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. I’m Jim Love, more...
July 24, 2024 Security vendor CrowdStrike released an update from their initial Post Incident Review (PIR) today. The company's CEO has committed to being transparent regarding what the company learns about the causes of this disastrous incident. There more...
