Plus: Five Guys announces that it has been hacked
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Public schools in New York City have banned the use of ChatGPT by its students and teachers due to concerns over its negative effect on learning. The decision was confirmed by the New York City Department of Education. More: - ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence software that has recently made headlines for enabling users to write essays and solve different programming problems simply by asking it to do so in plain English.
- According to the school district, the tool does not help students develop critical thinking, instead teaching them to expect the answers to be at their disposal whenever they want it without actually working for it.
- Other individuals, however, have expressed their dissatisfaction with this decision, claiming that the tool could be beneficial for teachers in their classrooms, similar to how Google is currently used to improve certain classes.
- New York has the largest school district in the U.S.; therefore, the fact that it has banned ChatGPT may play a role in convincing other districts throughout the country to follow suit.
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Meta has been fined $414M by the Irish Data Protection Commission for its ad privacy policy. The social media giant is set to appeal the decision. More: - The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta's Ireland branch with two separate fines: a $222.5M fine for breaking GDPR rules in its Facebook privacy policy and a $191M fine for Instagram's privacy rules.
- It is believed that both social media platforms used their terms of service to insert a clause that led to them gaining consent to target their users with ads based on their activity.
- The fines come as a result of an investigation that was initiated after two users located in Austria and Belgium filed complaints.
- Meta has disputed the conclusion by the privacy agency, claiming that it believes it respects the current privacy laws in the EU and will appeal the decision.
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France has fined Apple $8.5M for breaking its data privacy rules by collecting data on the App Store without user consent. The national French data authority claims that by doing so, Apple broke article 82 of GDPR. More: - According to CNIL, Apple has made it difficult for users to disable profiling by advertisers by making the button hard to find.
- Furthermore, the agency claims that user profiling happened automatically on iOS 14.6, resulting in a direct case of privacy breach.
- Apple stated that it is disappointed by the decision and believes its products do more than other companies in the space to help protect user privacy.
- CNIL has previously fined U.S.-based companies such as Google and Facebook for breaching this particular GDPR rule.
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Burger chain Five Guys announced that it has been hacked by an unknown threat actor. Hackers may have stolen the names, Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers from job applications. More: - So far, it is believed that over 100 individuals have had their data stolen, but this figure could grow as details emerge.
- The affected individuals are being offered free credit monitoring and identity protection services.
- The company claims that it tracked the breach on Sept. 17, 2022, and concluded its investigations in early December. So far, the fast-food chain has shared very little detail regarding technical information on the methodology used to breach the company and the campaign's origin.
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The Bluebottle hacker group is targeting the financial sector in French-speaking countries. The group is also tracked as DESKTOP-GROUP. More: - The group does not use custom malware in its hacking campaigns, choosing instead to deploy dual-use tools.
- Bluebottle's activity and its methods share similarities with another hacker group tracked as OPERA1ER, but researchers have not been able to directly connect the two so far.
- Some of these similarities include the following:
- Same domain in both hacking campaigns.
- Some of the same tools used: Ngrok, PsExec, RDPWrap, Revealer Keylogger, and Cobalt Strike Beacon.
- Targeting French-speaking countries in Africa
- OPERA1ER has caused over $30M in damages through its hacking campaigns.
- The group relies exclusively on open-source programs and trojans that can be found and bought on the dark web.
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- ManageEngine has tracked CVE-2022-47523, a security flaw that could enable hackers to have access to database entries.
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