On Thursday, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)announced that it had established a task force on ChatGPT, a potentially significant first step towards a uniform policy on setting privacy regulations for artificial intelligence. “The EDPB decided to launch a dedicated task force to foster cooperation and to exchange information on possible enforcement …

StormWall projects a 170% increase in DDoS Attacks by the end of 2023 and urges businesses to implement mitigation strategies. Leading cybersecurity provider, StormWall, has released a comprehensive report on the state of Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS attacks) in Q1 2023. The report, based on an analysis of …

There has been a 53 per cent increase in ransomware incidents in India in 2022 when compared to 2021, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said in a report. The CERT-In, in its India Ransomware Report released on April 13, said, in 2022, among various sectors, IT and ITeS …

A cyber attack group from Indonesia has been allegedly targeting 12,000 government websites in India, according to a cybersecurity alert issued by the Centre. The alert, accessed by Moneycontrol, was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) on Thursday. “It has been reported that websites of …

While an increasingly number of regulations have made the reporting of data breaches mandatory, a majority of IT professionals in the United States say they have been told to keep quiet about an incident, potentially running afoul of legal requirements. In a survey released last week, 42% of the more …

Western Digital has finally restored the My Cloud service after more than a week following a hack, but those behind the breach claim to have stolen customer data. The My Cloud service returned on Wednesday, 10 days after Western Digital officially reported an outage that made the online storage platform …

Hyundai reported a data breach that impacted car owners in Italy and France and people who booked their test drives. The company has warned that hackers accessed customers’ data. Hyundai owns roughly 3% of the market shares in Italy and France, selling nearly half a million vehicles a year in …

With improved protocol support, various bug fixes, and several enhancements, Wireshark has released version 4.0.5. On March 3, 2023, the most recent version of Wireshark 4.0.4 was made available; this is the second upgrade of this year. The open-source packet analyzer Wireshark is free to use. It is employed in developing software and …

Half of CISOs will formally adopt human-centric design practices into their cybersecurity programmes, while adoption of zero trust architecture will rise Fifty per cent of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) will adopt human-centric design to reduce cybersecurity operational friction; large organisations will focus on implementing zero-trust programmes; and half of …

The Jerusalem Post reported that hackers targeted water controllers for irrigation systems at farms in the Jordan Valley, as well as wastewater treatment control systems belonging to the Galil Sewage Corporation. Farms were warned by Israel’s National Cyber Directorate prior to the incident, being instructed to disable remote connections to these systems …