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Sellafield nuclear site compromised by Russian and Chinese hackers
The UK Sellafield site has been breached by hackers with links to Russia and China’s governments, the Guardian has revealed. The site is listed as the UK’s most hazardous, and contains the world’s largest store of plutonium, alongside highly sensitive data relating to nuclear attacks and disasters. The breach has…
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The US government has suffered a whole load of data breaches we never even knew about
In the decade between 2014 and November 2023, the United States government and its various entities and endpoints suffered exactly 1,283 data breaches. In those breaches, 201,184,801 records were affected, costing the government – and thus the average taxpayer – more than $30 billion, new research has claimed. The report…
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Mac users are being targeted again with dangerous malware – here’s what to know
Hackers are tricking macOS users into becoming a part of a proxy botnet by offering them pirated commercial software, researchers have revealed A new Kaspersky report has uncovered dozens of premium programs being offered for free online – but bundled with the installation files are proxy trojan installers malware. In…
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AWS will now let you simulate a major cloud outage to see how well your company copes
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new outage simulator to its Fault Injection Service (FIS) to help customers see how resilient their companies are to major outages. The announcement, made during the company’s AWS re:Invent event, lets customers “put chaos engineering into practice at scale” by introducing simulation for…
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23andMe hackers accessed a whole lot of user’s personal data
Biogenetics company 23andMe has submitted a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) detailing the data breach it suffered in early October 2023. In the filing, the company said that the threat actors accessed data on 0.1% of its customer base – roughly 14,000 individuals if the…
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Defining fairness: How IBM is tackling AI governance
Enterprises are hesitant to adopt AI solutions due to the difficulty in balancing the cost of governance with the behaviours of large language models (LLM), such as hallucinations, data privacy violations, and the potential for the models to output harmful content. One of the most difficult challenges facing the adoption…
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