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TikTok banned on government devices in New York
New York City has banned TikTok on government-owned devices, citing security concerns. It joins a number of US cities and states that have put such restrictions on the short video sharing app.
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LinkedIn accounts hacked in global campaign
LinkedIn account hacks led to some victims paying ransom to attackers when threatened with permanent account deletion, researchers say.
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Discord.io suffers data breach, goes offline
Discord.io is stopping all operations for the foreseeable future following a massive data breach. The resulting leak affected over 760,000 users.
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Russia slaps Reddit, Wikipedia with fines
A court in Moscow fined Reddit and Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, for refusing to delete “banned content” about Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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PwC breach spills into Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s largest bank joins the victim list of the MOVEit attacks after the personal data of its 82,217 clients were exposed via third-party vendor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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New York Life data exposed in third-party breach
New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC), one of the world’s largest corporations, was exposed to the MOVEit Transfer attacks via third-party vendor Pension Benefit Information (PBI).
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Xiaomi has blocked Telegram on its Chinese phones: why?
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker, is now effectively considering Telegram to be dangerous, with the company blocking its users in China from installing the app.
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UK’s NHS recommended to use AI in radiotherapy planning
Artificial intelligence could soon be used for the first time in the UK’s hospitals after clinical experts concluded that it could save time and money.
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Hosting service used by criminals taken down in Poland
The Polish Central Cybercrime Bureau has taken down LolekHosted.net, a hosting service exploited by criminals to launch cyberattacks worldwide.
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Qualcomm conned in $150M tech sale fraud
The former head of Abreezio, a tech firm which was fraudulently sold to Qualcomm for $150 million in cash, has pleaded guilty to his role in the scam.
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Google search exposes academics using ChatGPT in research papers
A stupid mistake exposes numerous members of academia using ChatGPT in their research papers, threatening the future of academic writing.
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PBI notifies Prudential of MOVEit breach
Pension Benefit Information, a third party contractor of prestigious firms like the Prudential Insurance Company of America, has joined the ever-growing list of victims of the third-party MOVEit hack.
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“I’m a non-physical nurturing entity” – users report ChatGPT going crazy
“I am learning. I keep growing” is one of the weird responses that ChatGPT recently generated to users, as dozens of them are being shared on Reddit.
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EY breach exposes Bank of America customer credit card numbers
Ernst & Young (EY) said over 30,000 Bank of America customers were exposed via the MOVEit Transfer attacks, with threat actors accessing financial account information and credit card numbers.
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Australian public broadcaster shuts down accounts on X
ABC said protecting journalists from “toxic interactions” on X was a factor behind the decision to cull most of its accounts on the platform.
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TD Ameritrade reveals that MOVEit attacks exposed thousands
TD Ameritrade, a US stockbroker, had over 60,000 clients exposed via the MOVEit Transfer attacks, with attackers taking the financial account data of some users.
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DHS grants $375 million to boost state and local government cyber resilience
The US Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will inject around $375 million into state and local government coffers in order to increase cyber resilience. The sector has been pummeled by ransomware attacks in recent months.
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Five most common cybersecurity vulnerabilities in 2023
Research reveals a list of common vulnerabilities, showing that Apache and OpenSSH services are the most vulnerable.
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Colorado education department admits data breach
Colorado’s Department of Higher Education has admitted to being breached by threat actors. This means that anyone who studied at a public high school in the state between 2004 and 2020 may have had their personal data illegally accessed.
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LetMeSpy spyware maker shuts down over data breach
Android spyware maker LetMeSpy will cease operations two months after hackers stole sensitive user information from its servers.
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