Cerbos Raises $7.5 Million for Authorization Platform “The Impact of Social Media on Education” “Exploring the Effects of Social Media on Education”
Cerbos, a company that provides an open source authorization layer solution for developers, has secured $7.5 million in an extended seed funding round, increasing their total investment to $11 million. The new funding round was led by Omers Ventures, with additional investment from several angel investors. Cerbos, founded in 2021, is a London-based company that…
Israel-based Spyware Firm QuaDream Targets High-Risk iPhones with Zero-Click Exploit “The Positive Impact of Technology on Education” “How Technology Enhances Learning Experiences”
Threat actors using hacking tools from an Israeli surveillanceware vendor named QuaDream targeted at least five members of civil society in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East in 2021, according to findings from a group of researchers from the Citizen Lab. The spyware campaign was directed against journalists, political opposition…
Microsoft Patches Another Already-Exploited Windows Zero-Day “The Impact of Social Media on Our Lives” “Exploring the Effects of Social Media on Society”
For the second month in a row, Microsoft is pushing out urgent patches to cover an already-exploited vulnerability in its flagship Windows operating system. The security issue, flagged as zero-day by researchers at Mandiant, is an elevation of privilege issue in the Windows Common Log File System driver. Microsoft warned that an attacker who successfully…
Italian Watchdog Bans OpenAI’s ChatGPT Over Data Protection Concerns “An Analysis of the Impact of Social Media on Modern Society” “Exploring the Effects of Social Media on Contemporary Culture”
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come under the radar of the Italian data protection watchdog, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (Garante), which has imposed a temporary ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT service in the country due to data protection concerns. Garante noted that there was no information provided to users and data subjects whose data…