Security News > 2023 > July
An overwhelming number of respondents familiar with ChatGPT were concerned about the risks it poses to security and safety, according to Malwarebytes. Machine learning models like ChatGPT are "Black boxes" with emergent properties that appear suddenly and unexpectedly as the amount of computing power used to create them increases.
The port of Nagoya - which shifted 2.68 million shipping containers and 164 million tons of cargo in 2022 - has moved precious few in the last 24 hours after finding itself the latest victim of Russia's notorious LockBit ransomware gang. Japanese media have reported substantial disruptions at the port and named LockBit as the culprit.
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six tries. Voice authentication - which allows companies to verify the identity of their clients via a supposedly unique "Voiceprint" - has increasingly been used in remote banking, call centers and other security-critical scenarios.
A North Korean satellite allegedly designed for reconnaissance was not viable for its alleged intended purpose, according to South Korea's military on Wednesday. North Korea attempted to put the satellite into orbit on May 31, but it instead plunged into the sea soon after it was launched.
A former Amazon manager described by prosecutors as the "Mastermind" behind a nearly $10 million scheme to steal money from the online megaretailer using fake invoices has been sentenced to 16 years behind bars in federal prison. Amazon Warehouse ops manager Kayricka Wortham - also known as "Kayricka Dupree" and "Kayricka Young" - pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the US on November 30, and allegedly committed more crimes while on release after posting bond.
Thales cloud security study shows that 79% of organizations have more than one cloud provider and 75% of companies said they store at least 40% of their sensitive data in the cloud. While Thales, in its 2023 Cloud Security Study, found that well over a third of businesses experienced a data breach in their cloud environment last year versus 34% in 2021, organizations are increasingly caching sensitive data in multiple cloud environments.
Boffins at the University of California, Davis have devised a purportedly practical way to apply a memory abuse technique called Rowhammer to build unique, stable device fingerprints. UC Davis researchers Hari Venugopalan, Kaustav Goswami, Zainul Abi Din, Jason Lowe-Power, Samuel King, and Zubair Shafiq have found they can use Rowhammer to create device fingerprints in a brief amount of time that are unique and unchanging, even when the devices come from the same maker, with identical hardware and software configurations.
With quantum technologies proliferating, business leaders may be wondering whether quantum computing is appropriate and secure for their work. A business should use quantum computing if the mathematical problem that needs to be solved is too complex for conventional computing to complete in a practical amount of time.
International cops have arrested a suspected "Key figure" of a cybercrime group dubbed OPERA1ER that has stolen as much as $30 million from more than 30 banks and financial orgs across 15 countries. According to Interpol, which led the international task force in Operation Nervone to take down the gang's ringleader, OPERA1ER has stolen at least $11 million - but possibly as much as $30 million - from organizations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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