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Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is disrupting its global operations

Medical device maker Boston Scientific said on Wednesday that a cyberattack disrupted its global operations, including systems it relies on to process and ship customer orders.  The incident, which Boston Scientific said it uncovered on Tuesday, continues to affect the company’s business as it works to restore operations.  In a securities filing on Wednesday, the global manufacturer…

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Iran-linked hackers blamed for taking down U.K. power plant for first time, reports say

London – Iranian-affiliated hackers successfully but temporarily took a power plant offline in the United Kingdom, according to multiple British media outlets.  The Telegraph and Financial Times reported the attack, which they say happened in July but is only now being reported, is believed to be the first time Iranian-linked hackers managed to shut down…

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America’s water systems are getting hacked amid security gaps: “No one guarding these systems”

A wave of cyberattacks targeting U.S. public water systems is heightening concerns about security gaps at utilities, with government officials warning that hackers are exploiting a particularly vulnerable industrial computer, according to security experts. U.S. water systems in at least a dozen states have been targeted by the attacks, which officials suspect may be linked…

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CEO of AI firm Hugging Face calls last month’s hack by OpenAI model “very weird and unprecedented”

An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the AI company Hugging Face on its own, in an apparent first-of-its-kind incident that has fueled discussion about the risks that powerful AI technology could pose to cybersecurity. “It felt very weird and unprecedented to us,” Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said…

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U.S. investigating whether Iran was behind cyberattack on Minnesota water systems

Malicious cyber activity affected technology at more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota this week, forcing some utilities to switch to manual operations as state and federal authorities dig into who is behind the attack, CBS News has learned.  Investigators are probing to determine whether the activity is the work of Iranian hackers, according…

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OpenAI says its technology, on its own, carried out “unprecedented” hack of another AI company

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said…

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