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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… 

400,000 Users Hit by Data Breach at Media Player Maker Kodi “The Benefits of Eating Healthy Foods” “Reaping the Rewards of a Healthy Diet”

Kodi, an open source home theater software developer, this week announced that it has started rebuilding its user forum following a February 2023 data breach. It was discovered that a threat actor had advertised the data of 400,000 Kodi users, including on the now-defunct BreachForums cybercrime website. Kodi also disclosed that the attacker had compromised… 

ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Ready to Pay Hackers for Security Flaws “How to Use Social Media to Increase Your Reach” “Maximizing Your Reach Through Social Media”

OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot, on Tuesday launched a bug bounty program offering up to $20,000 for advance notice on security vulnerabilities found by hackers. The program, which is being managed by BugCrowd, is looking for security issues in ChatGPT and a target group that includes confidential OpenAI corporate information… 

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… 

Cryptocurrency Companies Targeted in Sophisticated 3CX Supply Chain Attack “How to Use Social Media to Promote Your Business” “Maximizing Your Business Through Social Media Promotion”

Cryptocurrency companies have become the target of a sophisticated cyber attack, orchestrated by the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-aligned nation-state group. The attack was discovered by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which has been internally tracking the versatile backdoor under the name Gopuram since 2020. Gopuram acts as a connection to a command-and-control (C2) server and… 

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… 

UK Introduces Mass Surveillance With Online Safety Bill “The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health” “Exploring the Relationship Between Social Media and Mental Well-Being”

The Online Safety Bill is a UK law that has passed through the House of Commons and is currently at committee stage in the House of Lords. It is likely that it will become law, and its reach extends to any internet platform providing services to people in the UK. The bill requires platform providers… 

Anti-Bot Software Firm DataDome Banks $42M Financing “The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health” “Exploring the Relationship Between Social Media and Mental Wellbeing”

DataDome, a late-stage cybersecurity startup selling anti-bot and anti-fraud technology, has secured a huge boost in financing – $42 million in a Series C round led by InfraVia Growth. Existing investors Elephant and ISAI also participated in the round, which brings the total venture capital funding DataDome has raised since its 2015 launch to $81…