Sam Altman is Back as OpenAI CEO Just Days After Being Removed, Along With a New Board
The ousted leader of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him late last week, culminating a days-long power struggle that shocked the…
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Humans Are Notoriously Bad at Assessing Risk
Risk assessment should be a rational and objective undertaking. We as humans, with our emotions, can sometimes be irrational and subjective. As security professionals, this would seem…
Kansas Officials Blame 5-Week Disruption of Court System on ‘Sophisticated Foreign Cyberattack’
Cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has…
Citrix, Gov Agencies Issue Fresh Warnings on CitrixBleed Vulnerability
Australian and US governmental agencies and Citrix this week issued fresh warnings on the exploitation of a critical NetScaler product vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2023-4966 (CVSS…
LLM Security Startup Lasso Emerges From Stealth Mode
End-to-end generative AI security startup Lasso Security has emerged from stealth mode with $6 million in a seed funding round led by Entrée Capital, with…
CISA Offering Free Cybersecurity Services to Non-Federal Critical Infrastructure Entities
The US cybersecurity agency CISA has announced a new pilot program to provide managed cybersecurity services to critical infrastructure entities that need support. For years,…
Tor Network Removes Risky Relays Associated With Cryptocurrency Scheme
The Tor Project announced on Monday that it has removed many relays due to the high risk they posed to the network’s integrity and users.…
Canadian Military, Police Impacted by Data Breach at Moving Companies
The Canadian government has announced that information pertaining to its employees and to military and police personnel was exposed in a data breach at third-party…
Sumo Logic Completes Investigation Into Recent Security Breach
Cloud monitoring, log management, and SIEM tools provider Sumo Logic has completed its investigation into a recent security incident and the company says it has…
Microsoft Paid Out $63 Million Since Launch of First Bug Bounty Program 10 Years Ago
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has paid out $63 million in rewards to the security researchers participating in its bug bounty programs. The tech…
Insider Q&A: Pentagon AI Chief on Network-Centric Warfare, Generative AI Challenges
The Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence offer, Craig Martell, is alarmed by the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT to deceive and…
CISA Releases Cybersecurity Guidance for Healthcare, Public Health Organizations
The US cybersecurity agency CISA has published new guidance to help healthcare and public health organizations understand the cyber threats and risks to their sector…