Cloudflare, one of the world's largest content delivery networks and web security service providers, is taking on AI bots with a new "Easy button" that simplifies the shutdown of unauthorized content scraping.
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The Qantas breach appears to be isolated to a third-party contact center that the airline uses for customer service queries. Unusual activity was detected on June 30, leading to discovery of the data breach and "immediate" actions to contain it, and up to six million customers may be impacted.
The FBI is warning that one of the world's most prolific and dangerous ransomware groups has now set its sights on the "airline ecosystem" of the region, and has already racked up successful cyber attacks against two major airlines.
A new CISA-NSA joint report follows many calls by both members of the cybersecurity industry and government agencies for a transition to memory-safe languages like Rust, Ruby, Java and C# due to their inherent minimization of memory-related classes of vulnerabilities.
Apparently numerous of these companies have a website search feature that will list what is already printed within a URL linking from the ad to the page. In this case, that means that the search bar is pre-filled with fake support numbers when the target arrives at the page.
The Reddit suit claims that Anthropic began regularly scraping the site in December 2021. After being asked to stop, Anthropic issued a public statement in July 2024 indicating that it had stopped all crawling of Reddit for AI training data.
Google Threat Intelligence Group is now reporting "multiple intrusions" at US-based insurance firms by Scattered Spider, which in some cases has caused outages and business disruptions.
A new set of 16 billion login credentials is not an intentional public leak or data breach. It was accidentally exposed to the internet via improperly secured Elasticsearch and object storage instances for a short period, but long enough for security researchers to hit upon it.
Users of Meta AI may have been ambushed by the fact that no other chatbot offers anything quite like its chat-sharing Discover feed, and that it seems such a privacy-invasive idea that it is baffling a major company would actually include it at all let alone as a standard opted-in feature.
A new and wide-ranging cybersecurity executive order from the Trump administration rolls back some Biden- and Obama-era directives and looks to steer government cyber defense efforts to "identifying and managing vulnerabilities, rather than censorship."
