ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

Getty Images Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays, planning parties, and learning about new topics. Now we can add malware development and the pursuit of other types of cybercrime to the list. Researchers at security […]

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Rackspace confirms ransomware attack hit a small percentage of its Hosted Exchange customers

Dive Brief: Rackspace, in the conclusion to its post-incident investigation, said the threat actor behind the December ransomware attack accessed the Personal Storage Table of just 27 of the company’s 30,000 Hosted Exchange customers, according to an update released Thursday.  Rackspace said there is no evidence the attackers were able to obtain, view, disseminate or […]

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Tech unemployment remains low, but hints of a slowdown emerge

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Amid tech industry layoffs, employers economywide added 130,000 tech workers in December, according to a CompTIA review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. This is a decline of 5 percentage points compared to last […]

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Algorithms Need Management Training, Too

The European Union is expected to finalize the Platform Work Directive, its new legislation to regulate digital labor platforms, this month. This is the first law proposed at the European Union level to explicitly regulate “algorithmic management”: the use of automated monitoring, evaluation, and decision-making systems to make or inform decisions including recruitment, hiring, assigning tasks, […]

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What’s at stake for 33M compromised LastPass users?

A seemingly run-of-the-mill breach at LastPass in August produced one of last year’s most alarming security incidents. Downstream impacts mounted as the year came to a close, months after the password manager claimed the threat contained. LastPass users and business customers should be on high alert and change all passwords immediately, following a subsequent breach […]

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Sustainable Procurement for Businesses & the Environment

Sustainable procurement and sustainability in businesses are more than just fancy buzzwords. Statistics support this argument: 60% more businesses engage in sustainable procurement than two years ago. 33% of consumers choose products and services that they believe make a positive social and environmental impact. 89% of sustainability managers and decision-makers state that sustainability has a […]

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‘M3GAN’ Will Out-Earn ‘Avatar’ if There Is Any Justice in This World

There’s a movie genre I tend to find moderately amusing but cannot in good conscience respect: the meme flick. You know what I’m talking about. Snakes on a Plane. The Grumpy Cat Christmas movie starring Aubrey Plaza. The upcoming Cocaine Bear. These are forthrightly bonkers movies that exist so people will watch them at least semi-ironically and post […]

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Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You

After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of the larger trove with duplicate entries removed. The social network has not yet commented […]

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6 security experts on what cyberthreats they expect in 2023

Consider cyberthreats variations on a theme — the new and novel are rare.  Instead, at their core, many of the top cyberthreats organizations encounter stem from human error and mistakes. That’s why experts are quick to call out the perils of phishing and spear phishing attacks.  Those initial mistakes can serve as a bridge to […]

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Smart Home, Health Tech, and Everything Else We Saw at CES

Michael Calore: Fantastic. Julian Chokkattu: Smart. Adrienne So: Because by God, I will not be standing in a line for terrible coffee for 20 minutes when I have to get to a press conference. I’m just going to brew that up in my room while I’m getting ready, getting dressed in the morning. And I’m […]

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