The ever-increasing influence of Chinese threat actors in the cyber landscape is causing significant concern. As per the latest revelations, a Chinese state-linked group successfully stole data from a U.S. federal agency and targeted several European nations too. Today, we also have a Delaware county facing temporary outages due to …
Read More »Elon Musk bring ‘xAI’ to compete with Chat GPT
Elon Musk launched his own artificial intelligence company xAI to compete with ChatGPT. The new startup is made up of prominent AI researchers. xAI’s artificial intelligence research team is made up of companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft. xAI will be independently operated by X Corp, Twitter’s parent company. According to …
Read More »Digital Security Act to be amended by September : Law Minister
Law Minister Anisul Haque said that the Digital Security Act will be amended by September. He said this after a meeting with Uzra Zeya, Undersecretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights of the US Department of State at the Secretariat on Thursday (July 12). After the meeting, the Law …
Read More »Ransomware tracker: The latest figures-July 2023
Ransomware attacks on schools spiked in June, reaching a new record high. On average, ransomware groups claimed more than one attack per day on educational institutions. In June, there were 37 attacks on schools, which is more than the 24 attacks that occurred the month before. This information is from …
Read More »Bangladesh Gov.t sent thanking mail to Viktor Markopoulos
Bangladesh Gov.t acknowledged the researcher Viktor Markopoulos’s mail. Executive Director of Bangladesh computer council (BCC) Ranajit Kumar said, we mail him today thanking to let us know the data leak issue to us. He said, the mail sent by Viktor Markopoulos helps us to find the very important data leak …
Read More »The GPT-4 API Available To Everyone
OpenAI’s API is now providing access to GPT-4, their latest text-generation model. It is available to the public, allowing users to experience its benefits. As part of its upgrade, the company also made GPT 3.5, DALL-E, and Whisper available. “Whisper” is the designation for OpenAI’s speech-to-text model, whereas “DALL-E 2” …
Read More »Daily Cybersecurity update, July 12, 2023
Once again proving that the educational sector is a favorite target among threat actors, a Michigan community college fell victim to a data breach. The incident possibly exposed the personal information of over 750,000 people. Another day, another government attacked. The Ministry of Digital Transformation in Trinidad and Tobago suffered …
Read More »“Cyber Digital transformation summit” is being held at Dhaka today
2nd annual “Cyber digital transformation summit” is being held at Dhaka today. Non profit international organization “Information system security association” (ISSA) is the host of the event. The event is now continuing a renowned hotel at Dhaka.
Read More »Govt planning to create ethical hackers: ICT State Minister
ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak said, Gov.t think about creating ethical hackers. He said this to the reporters after an emergency meeting with the critical information infrastructure (CII) Monday (10 July) at ICT division on the issue of data leak recently. The minister said, till now we came to …
Read More »Apple Issues an Emergency Patch to Address a Zero-Day Flaw
Apple released Rapid Security Response updates for its Safari web browser, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day vulnerability that was being actively exploited. By exploiting the WebKit vulnerability known as CVE-2023-37450, malicious actors may execute arbitrary code while handling specially designed web content. The iPhone maker said it …
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