85% of business leaders in a new study believe that their public facing APIs and web applications have fallen victim to automated attack from malicious bots.
Report contends that the pandemic was used as an excuse to normalize various elements of mass surveillance, with some of these having no real impact on Covid-19 response at all.
The average cost of data breach has hit an all-time high, up almost 10% from last year to $4.24 million. That average cost increases greatly when remote workers are involved (to $4.96 million).
The SITA incident is a very significant supply chain attack, with a number of major airlines reporting that their frequent flyer programs were compromised as a result of the breach.
Car rental company Avis has suffered a data breach impacting nearly 300,000 customers after an unauthorized third party accessed a business application.
New law has passed in Washington state which will limit the use of facial recognition technology but some are concerned that it does not offer enough protections against marginalized groups.
The McHire AI bot was created by Paradox.ai, which claims that 90% of McDonalds franchisees make use of it in their hiring pipeline. Hacking it apparently did not require any amount of technical knowledge at all, merely trying “123456” as an administrator password.
The AWS outage that caused widespread global disruption for about half of Monday has officially been resolved, but numerous lingering issues remain that could take days or even weeks to fully resolve.
The supply chain attack on third-party library Axios has forced OpenAI to revoke its code-signing certificate and require users to update their macOS certificates.
Microsoft Azure cloud container vulnerability allows an attacker to escape their container and compromise other user's containers on the same cloud services by executing malicious code.
