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Security News Update for the Week Ending May 3, 2024

Cyberattack Ramifications: Chain Closes ALL STORES to Contain Attack Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has closed all stores to contain a cyberattack. While many stores stop accepting online orders or credit cards after a cyberattack, it is very rare to see a company stop doing business until further notice. However, they have not notified authorities […]

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AI Needs Your Data and It Needs it Badly

Item 1 – Apple is reported to be in negotiations with news companies and other publishers (like NBC and Conde Nast) to “license” their back catalog of content for their AI projects. Apple is offering, supposedly, up to $50 million to license their content, but, at least for now, the content creators were not fans […]

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OpenAI Faces Defamation Suit After ChatGPT Fabricates Lawsuit Info

Armed America Radio host Mark Walters is Suing OpenAI after their software completely fabricated a court filing saying that Walters was involved in a lawsuit filed against him for embezzling funds of the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun rights group. A so-called journalist discovered that by using ChatGPT for research and used the hallucination. The […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 14, 2023

OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 7, 2023

Twitter Limits Number of Tweets You Can See Per Day Due to – according to Twitter – an insane amount of data scraping, Twitter is limiting the number of posts an unverified (free) account can see to 1,000 per day; new unverified accounts are limited to 500 a day. Verified (paid) accounts are limited to […]

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Security News Update for April 14, 2023

Tech Industry Pain Good for NSA Rob Joyce, NSA’s cyber director, says that they are seeing a boost in recruitment following waves of layoffs in the tech sector. While he is not giving numbers, any help with mid and high level recruiting would be good for the good guys. Remember that due to the clearance […]

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