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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 …

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 …