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AT&T resets thousands of user passwords as it confirms breached data was its own after all
American telecommunications behemoth AT&T has finally confirmed the authenticity of the 2021 data breach that spilled sensitive user information on the dark web, and has initiated a mass reset of user passcodes. Roughly three years ago, privacy blog RestorePrivacy broke the news of a hacker selling sensitive data belonging to…
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US Congress bans staff from using Microsoft Copilot
The US House of Representatives has reportedly prohibited congressional staffers from using Microsoft Copilot as part of a security push. A report from Axios says the House’s Chief Administrative Officer, Catherine Szpindor, claimed that the AI tool poses a risk due to the potential leakage of data to non-approved cloud…
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GBK slammed after April Fools “joke” raises scam fear
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) has been slammed by customers after an April Fool’s joke email left many worried they had been hacked. The company’s attempt at an April Fool’s joke saw customers sent an email entitled “Order confirmation: 1046758092”, causing some to panic under the belief their accounts had been…
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A New York business chatbot is sending out some particularly bad information
An AI chatbot released by the New York City government designed to assist business owners in accessing information has come under scrutiny for sharing inaccurate and misleading guidance. A report by The Markup, co-published with local nonprofit newsrooms Documented and The City, reveal multiple instances where the chatbot provided wrong…
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Ransomware attackers are increasingly targeting backups — so make sure yours are protected
When deploying ransomware on a target system, threat actors will almost always look to compromise the backups, too. Organizations that lose their backups end up paying a lot more in ransom demands, and losing even more in the recovery process, a new report from cybersecurity researchers Sophos has claimed, highlighting…
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Japanese scientists close in on petabit-class submarine cable tech set to revolutionize Internet speeds — NEC and NTT managed to shuttle hundreds of terabits over thousands of kilometers thanks to a clever algorithm
To cope with the demand for international bandwidth almost doubling every two years, Japanese corporations NEC and NTT have successfully trialed a revolutionary submarine cable technology set to drastically enhance internet speeds under the sea. The transoceanic-class experiment transmitted hundreds of terabits across a staggering 7,280km, a feat made possible…
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