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Microsoft Defender Mistakenly Tags Legitimate URLs as Malicious
Microsoft Defender Mistakenly Tags Legitimate URLs as Malicious
Microsoft Defender, the default security platform for Windows, is currently causing confusion among users as it mistakenly flags legitimate URLs as malicious, causing several false positives. Microsoft has confirmed that it is inv...
SafeMoon Token’s Liquidity Pool Drained in $8.9 Million Hack
SafeMoon Token’s Liquidity Pool Drained in $8.9 Million Hack
SafeMoon, a decentralized finance (DeFi) token, has been hacked for roughly $8.9 million, according to reports. The cybercriminal exploited a newly created “burn” feature in SafeMoon’s smart contract, artificially pumping the toke...
Scammer Receives 4-Year Prison Sentence After Being Caught in the US
Scammer Receives 4-Year Prison Sentence After Being Caught in the US
Solomon Ekunke Okpe, who is a 31-year-old from Nigeria, has been sentenced to four years and one month in prison for his participation in a cybercriminal group that operated from Nigeria and Malaysia. The group carried out a serie...
OpenAI Admits to Data Breach and Security Concerns in ChatGPT
OpenAI Admits to Data Breach and Security Concerns in ChatGPT
OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, has confirmed a data breach caused by an issue in an open-source library. After a glitch, which inadvertently allowed people to access chat data from other users and resulted in a data brea...
President Biden Issues Executive Order Banning Spyware Use by U.S. Government Agencies
President Biden Issues Executive Order Banning Spyware Use by U.S. Government Agencies
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Monday, prohibiting the use of commercial spyware by U.S. government agencies. The directive comes after the discovery that the threat was more extensive than previously indicated...
Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Chatbot for Cybersecurity Professionals
Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Chatbot for Cybersecurity Professionals
Microsoft is introducing Security Copilot, a chatbot aimed at assisting cybersecurity professionals in understanding critical issues and identifying solutions. The AI-driven chatbot is built upon OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model and...
MacStealer Malware Extracts iCloud Keychain Data on macOS
MacStealer Malware Extracts iCloud Keychain Data on macOS
A recently identified information-stealing malware, MacStealer, is targeting macOS users, compromising their credentials in iCloud Keychain, web browsers, and cryptocurrency wallets, as well as gaining access to various sensitive...
Unprotected Database Leaves Personal Details of Special-Needs Students Vulnerable
Unprotected Database Leaves Personal Details of Special-Needs Students Vulnerable
Researchers at vpnMentor have stumbled upon an unsecured database that holds sensitive personal records of special-needs students and their parents. The recent report highlights that this database, which was not password-protected...
U of New Orleans Restores Limited Services After Cybersecurity Attack
U of New Orleans Restores Limited Services After Cybersecurity Attack
Following a potential cybersecurity breach, the University of New Orleans (UNO) has said that it has successfully negated the threat to its network and is working to restore services with assistance from the state’s cybersecurity...
General Motors Chief Cybersecurity Officer Appointed to CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee
General Motors Chief Cybersecurity Officer Appointed to CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee
General Motors Co.’s Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Kevin Tierney, is now a member of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC). Tierney is one of the 13 new appointees to the commi...