Government’s Addiction To Contractors Is Creating A Data Privacy Crisis
14 May Government’s Addiction To Contractors Is Creating A Data Privacy Crisis Posted at 09:12h in Blogs by Di Freeze This week in cybersecurity from…
Month: May 2024
Update Chrome now! Google releases emergency security patch
Google has released an emergency security update for its Chrome browser. The update includes a patch released four days earlier for a vulnerability which Google…
The full list of IT projects in the 2024-25 federal budget – Finance – Strategy
The federal government has outlined at least $2.8 billion in planned investments in technology systems and policy development over the next four years, eclipsing last…
Actually Good Multimodal AI · Joseph Thacker
OpenAI just made a big move in the AI space with the release of GPT-4o (“o” stands for “omni”). This new model is crazy because…
400k Linux Servers Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency
A new report from cybersecurity researchers at ESET has uncovered a massive botnet comprised of over 400,000 compromised Linux servers being used for cryptocurrency theft…
Three Rules of Crisis Management: Lessons from the War in Israel
Crises and challenges are a staple of the technology and cybersecurity industries. While we do our best to plan for growth, setbacks, and business resilience,…
Critical Flaws in Cacti Framework Could Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code
May 14, 2024NewsroomNetwork Monitoring / Vulnerability The maintainers of the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework have addressed a dozen security flaws, including…
CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will double its cloud spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the next 36 months, following the renewal of…
Powerhouse AI With Security Threats?
The field of Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a leader in this revolution. This groundbreaking large language model (LLM) redefined the…
Government tables $40m for “safe and responsible” AI – Software – Cloud
The federal government will put $39.9 million into supporting the adoption of artificial intelligence in “a safe and responsible manner”. The bulk of the funding…
Hackers Abuse GoTo Meeting Tool to Deploy Remcos RAT
In a sophisticated cyberattack campaign, hackers are using the online meeting platform GoToMeeting to distribute a Remote Access Trojan known as Remcos. This alarming development…
Kaspersky Reveals Global Rise in APTs, Hacktivism and Targeted Attacks
In summary: The report covers the first quarter of 2024 and shows that a North Korean hacker group called Kimsuky or SharpTongue has been using…