Trump’s acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT

The acting head of the US cybersecurity agency CISA uploaded sensitive contract documents marked “for official use only” to ChatGPT. According to Politico. Trump-appointed CISA acting director Madhu Gottumukkala triggered a series of automated security alerts designed to prevent theft or inadvertent disclosure of government files from federal networks, the outlet reported Tuesday, citing officials….

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France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack

La Poste, France’s national postal and banking service company, was taken offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, According to a company announcementThe Postal Service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of our information systems,” La Poste’s online mail and banking services, website and mobile app are…

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DoorDash confirms data breach impacting users’ phone numbers and physical addresses

DoorDash disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of an unspecified number of users, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. Despite the fact that hackers stole phone numbers and physical addresses, DoorDash said that “no sensitive information was accessed by unauthorized third parties and we have no indication of the…

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Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet

An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has affected large parts of the web, including websites, banks and some government services. Amazon said Monday morning that the outage had been “fully mitigated” and that most services were returning to normal after a long period of hours during which much of the Internet…

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Satellites found exposing unencrypted data, including phone calls and some military comms

Security researchers have discovered that more than half of all geostationary satellites in Earth orbit are carrying unencrypted sensitive consumer, corporate and military information, leaving this data wide open to spying. Researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland spent $800 on an off-the-shelf satellite receiver and pointed it skyward for three years….

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