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A hacker gained access to the internal messaging systems at OpenAI last year, it was reported. The hacker also stole details about the design of the company's artificial intelligence technologies, the New York Times reported, after they lifted details from discussions in an online forum where employees talked about OpenAI's latest technologies. In April last year, OpenAI executives informed employees …

Shadowy hacker claims he has data of 375 million Airtel users, Airtel says no breach in its systems

Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s parent company, revealed in a Friday SEC filing to investors that hackers breached systems containing sensitive user data earlier in the month, and that it found that data for sale online. The report confirms a hacking group’s claim that it obtained the names, phone numbers, addresses, transaction information and partial credit card information of 560 million Ticketmaster …

British Library struggles for weeks after cyber-attack against site and systems

The British Library is gradually recovering from a “major technology outage as a result of a cyber-attack,” which had affected its website, online systems, and some onsite services since late October at least. The Rhysida ransomware group took responsibility for the attack on the British Library and wanted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, reported TechCrunch on Monday. The …

’9 + 10 = 21’: Hackers expose big flaws and biases in top AI systems

Hackers at the White House DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas tested the top eight large language models to highlight the flaws and biases that generative AI systems have, such as claiming to be human, making false claims about people or places, etc. She was able to convince the AI model to view the First Amendment from the perspective of …

Jessica Cruz and Ed Hopkins are hackers, but not in the way you might expect. They are also known as ethical hackers Dr Thomas says most ethical hackers work for consulting firms, who are then "engaged by basically every other organisation" to attack their systems. Ms Cruz — who studied software engineering but found she preferred "breaking things" — says …

Uber Technologies Inc said on Monday a hacker affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was responsible for a cyber attack that forced the ride-hailing company to shut several internal communications temporarily last week. "The attacker accessed several internal systems, and our investigation has focused on determining whether there was any material impact," Uber said, adding that investigation was still ongoing. …

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Ride-hailing platform Uber on Friday said it has been hit by a cyber attack and is probing the data breach incident with law enforcement officials. According to reports, some of Uber's internal systems were hacked in the data breach and some screenshots on Twitter suggested the hacker got access to the company's internal data. An Uber employee posted that they …

Zoom, an online video collaboration platform has reportedly fixed the most dangerous bug on Apple macOS that could allow hackers to take control of users' operating systems when they open the meeting app. The company said in a security update that the Zoom client for meetings for macOS, starting with version 5.7.3 and before 5.11.5, "contains a vulnerability in the …

A supervisor saw the chemical being tampered with — as a mouse controlled by the intruder moved across the screen changing settings — and was able to intervene and reverse it Oldsmar: A hacker gained unauthorised entry into a remote access software system shared by workers at a Florida city’s water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the …

A hacker gained entry to the system controlling the water treatment plant of a Florida city of 15,000 and tried to taint the water supply with a caustic chemical, exposing a danger cybersecurity experts say has grown as systems become both more computerized and accessible via the internet. The hacker who breached the system at the city of Oldsmar’s water …

During a major hack into Twitter's systems last week, the perpetrators had access to the direct messages of 36 account, "including 1 elected official in the Netherlands", Twitter Support said on Thursday. With 36 accounts they accessed the DM inbox, and with 8 accounts they downloaded the 'Your Twitter Data' archive. The other accounts were of high-profile Americans including presidential …