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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Critical Infrastructure Orgs Cautioned About Chinese Drones, While Water Plants Advised To Boost Incident Response

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said this week. Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending January 19. 1 - Critical infrastructure orgs warned about using Chinese drones Here’s a warning from the U.S.

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Verizon’s VPN: security boon or privacy boondoggle?

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The wireless-service provider is marketing its Safe Wi-Fi VPN as an ad-blocking privacy protector and charging users $3.99 A more important detail: Verizon’s app, which, judging by its privacy policy , is largely based on McAfee’s VPN service, does not disclose how much user traffic it logs, or which kinds of information it collects.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: ChatGPT-like Tools Will Boost Developers’ Speed – and Amplify Cyber Risk

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Thus, organizations need to put in governance guardrails to prevent issues like: Data privacy violations Legal and regulatory infringement AI malfunctions due to malicious tampering Inadvertent use of copyrighted content or code To get more details, read the full study “ Unleashing developer productivity with generative AI. ”

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Don’t let your company’s reputation be held for ran$om

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This poses serious risks to the confidentiality, privacy, and compliance of your organization. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines 2 ransomware as “a form of malware designed to encrypt files on a device, rendering any files and the systems that rely on them unusable. ransom) to decrypt the data.

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2017 in cybersecurity and privacy news

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From rampant ransomware to the Equifax breach to geopolitical machinations, it’s hard not to be a cynic about the past 12 months of security and privacy news. And not all federal cybersecurity decisions this year were necessarily harmful to consumers. And although his administration took part in banning from U.S.