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The telecom company that allowed a Biden deepfake scam will have to pay the FCC $1m
Lingo Telecom has been ordered to pay a $1 million civil penalty by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after it relayed a falsified robotic recording of a President Biden voice message urging voters not to turn up to the New Hampshire primary, labelling it a ‘bunch of malarkey’. The FCC…
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Microsoft patches critical security bug in Copilot Studio that could have leaked private data
Microsoft Copilot Studio had a security issues which could have allowed threat actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from vulnerable endpoints, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researcher Evan Grant from Tenable, who found and reported on the vulnerability, which is described as an information disclosure flaw stemming from a server-side request forgery…
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“Something has gone seriously wrong” — Dual-boot Windows and Linux systems get worrying warning following Microsoft update
Linux users running dual-boot systems with Windows have reported their devices suddenly failed to boot, displaying a worrying “Something went seriously wrong” message. It has since been confirmed that a dodgy security update from Microsoft was to blame for the problem, which was designed to address CVE-2022-2601 as part of…
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Slack AI could be tricked into leaking login details and more
Security researchers claim to have uncovered a way to trick Slack’s AI assistant into sharing sensitive information and other secrets with unauthorized users Slack, which is used by more than 35 million people worldwide, introduced its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool in September 2023, allowing users to summarize multiple unread…
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GitHub Enterprise Server has a critical security flaw, so patch now
GitHub Enterprise Server, the self-hosted version of the GitHub platform, was found carrying a vulnerability that allowed malicious actors to elevate their privileges to admin. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6800, and has a severity rating of 9.5/10 (critical), is described as an XML signature wrapping issue. It happens when the…
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Russia blames mass tech outages on DDoS attack
The Russian government has blamed the widespread outage of several popular mobile applications on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The outage affected a number of messaging apps and online services, including Telegram, WhatsApp, Skype, Wikipedia, Steam, Discord, Twitch, and VKontakte – a Russian social network. However, people in…
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