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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 …

Microsoft has introduced a new update to Bing.com that includes a significant change in its search results — the addition of ChatGPT responses to search queries. Instead of featured snippets, in some cases, users will now see Bing AI answers to their queries, with prompts to continue conversations with the …

It took some time, as regulatory issues had to be solved, but Meta’s WhatsApp business payments tool is finally live in Brazil. The company chose the country as a key testing space for the new venture. The service, provided in partnership with payment processors including MercadoLibre’s Mercado Pago, Itau Unibanco’s …

On March 1, 2023, the Biden administration published its National Cybersecurity Strategy. This is not an executive order, but an outline of how the administration will guide the evolution of cybersecurity at the national level. The federal government can only impose its wishes on federal agencies. It cannot impose those wishes at …

While it may be tempting to top off your phone at one of those free charging stations found in airports or shopping centers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) advises against it. In a recent PSA, the agency’s Denver branch notes that bad actors have figured out how to use …

Microsoft Threat Intelligence experts say a threat group is associated with “QuaDream,” an Israeli-based private sector offensive actor (PSOA). It employed a zero-click exploit called END OF DAYS to compromise the iPhones of high-risk individuals. Reports say QuaDream sells a platform called REIGN to governments for use in law enforcement. A collection …

It’s been almost half a year since the revolutionary ChatGPT was released. Amazingly, it reached 100 million users in just two months. ChatGPT has an unimaginable potential to answer things that need a lot of research. Due to its increasingly demanding usage, securing it from threat actors is also essential. The …

A new study by a cybersecurity firm has revealed that most commonly used passwords are vulnerable to artificial intelligence (AI) tools and can be cracked almost instantly. AI chatbots like ChatGPT have made it easier to perform tasks just by sending prompts. However, it seems these large tools are also …

Sophos has released a new security advisory that has fixed 3 of its significant vulnerabilities, allowing threat actors to execute arbitrary code injection on Sophos Web Appliance (SWA). CVE(s): CVE-2023-1671 – Pre-Auth Command Injection CVE-2022-4934 – Post-Auth Command Injection CVE-2020-36692 – Reflected XSS via POST method CVE-2023-1671 – Pre-Auth Command Injection in Sophos …

In recent times, it has been observed by the security researchers at Kaspersky’s SecureList that the official Google Play store’s security has become increasingly vulnerable to the schemes of the threat actors. These shady actors have exploited various loopholes to develop tools that can effectively Trojanize the existing Android applications, making them …