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Ex-senior New York State staffer charged in cash-for-favors scandal with China
2024-09-04 00:53

Bagging two posh properties, three luxury cars on a govt salary a bit of a giveaway – allegedly The US Department of Justice has accused a now-former senior official of the New York State...

AWS Summit New York 2024: Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock Gains Claude 3 Haiku and Contextual Grounding
2024-07-10 17:18

In particular, contextual grounding for Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock provides customizable content filters for organizations deploying their own generative AI. AWS Responsible AI Lead Diya Wynn spoke with TechRepublic in a virtual prebriefing about the new announcements and how companies balance generative AI's wide-ranging knowledge with privacy and inclusion. Guardrails is expanding into the independent ApplyGuardrail API, with which Amazon businesses and AWS customers can apply safeguards to generative AI applications even if those models are hosted outside of AWS infrastructure.

New York Times warns freelancers of GitHub repo data breach
2024-06-13 19:52

The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached in January 2024. "The New York Times recently communicated to some of our contributors regarding an incident that resulted in the exposure of some of their personal information," a Times spokesperson told BleepingComputer.

New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
2024-06-08 17:10

Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to BleepingComputer. "Basically all source code belonging to The New York Times Company, 270GB," reads the 4chan forum post.

'New York Times source code' leaks online via 4chan
2024-06-07 23:39

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Owner of Incognito dark web drugs market arrested in New York
2024-05-20 19:36

The owner and operator of Incognito Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal narcotics online, was arrested at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on May 18. "LIN had ultimate control over more than one thousand vendors, more than 200,000 customers, and at least one other employee who assisted LIN in the management of the site," according to the indictment [PDF].

New York Increases Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Companies
2023-11-03 11:01

Boards of directors, or other senior committees, are charged with overseeing cybersecurity risk management, and must retain an appropriate level of expertise to understand cyber issues, the rules say. Directors must sign off on cybersecurity programs, and ensure that any security program has "Sufficient resources" to function.

New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
2023-07-25 11:05

The details are scant-the article is based on a "Heavily redacted" contract-but the New York subway authority is using an "AI system" to detect people who don't pay the subway fare. Joana Flores, an MTA spokesperson, said the AI system doesn't flag fare evaders to New York police, but she declined to comment on whether that policy could change.

Hackers steal data of 45,000 New York City students in MOVEit breach
2023-06-26 16:15

The New York City Department of Education says hackers stole documents containing the sensitive personal information of up to 45,000 students from its MOVEit Transfer server.The Clop ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit Transfer attacks on June 5 in a statement shared with BleepingComputer, with the cybercrime gang saying it breached the MOVEit servers of "Hundreds of companies."

New York City latest to sue Hyundai and Kia claiming their cars are too easy to steal
2023-06-08 14:32

Hyundai and Kia cars were stolen 977 times in New York City in the first four months of 2023, and authorities have had enough. "This represents a roughly 660 percent increase in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles as compared to those same months in 2022, when there were only 148 such thefts," blasts the complaint [PDF] filed with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.