Microsoft Hires Sam Altman and OpenAI’s New CEO Vows to Investigate His Firing
Microsoft snapped up Sam Altman and another architect of OpenAI for a new venture after their sudden departures shocked the artificial intelligence world, leaving the…
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Johnson Controls Patches Critical Vulnerability in Industrial Refrigeration Products
Johnson Controls recently announced patches for a critical vulnerability found by an external researcher in some of its industrial refrigeration products. According to advisories published…
Yamaha Motor Confirms Data Breach Following Ransomware Attack
The personal information of employees was stolen in a ransomware attack targeting a Philippines subsidiary of Yamaha Motor. The incident, the Japanese mobility and industrial…
5 Steps to Assessing Risk Profiles of Third-Party SSE Platforms
Shifting the approach to cybersecurity from multi-vendor security tools sprawl to a converged Secure Services Edge (SSE) model with a clear migration path to SASE…
Russia’s LitterDrifter USB Worm Spreads Beyond Ukraine
A recently identified USB worm attributed to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group Gamaredon appears to have spread beyond Ukraine, its likely intended target,…
250 Organizations Take Part in Electrical Grid Security Exercise
More than 250 organizations took part last week in GridEx VII, the seventh edition of the biennial exercise focusing on the security of the electrical…
US Announces $70 Million Cybersecurity Boost for Rural, Municipal Utilities
The US Department of Energy has announced a $70 million funding opportunity for electric cooperative, small investor-owned, and municipal utilities to improve their cybersecurity posture.…
K-12 Schools Improve Protection Against Online Attacks, but Many Are Vulnerable to Ransomware Gangs
Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks, but lax cybersecurity means thousands of others are vulnerable to…
ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI Fires CEO Sam Altman, the Face of the AI Boom, for Lack of Candor With Company
ChatGPT-maker Open AI said Friday it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was “not consistently candid in…
FCC Tightens Telco Rules to Combat SIM-Swapping
Moving to clamp down on the growing scourge of SIM-swapping and port-out fraud, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled new rules mandating telcos to…
2 Environmentalists Who Were Targeted by a Hacking Network Say the Public Is the Real Victim
Two environmentalists told a federal judge Thursday that the public was the real victim of a global computer hacking campaign that targeted those fighting big…
In Other News: Major Law Firm Hacked, Chinese Bank Pays Ransom, PyPI Security Audit
SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a…