Number of customer records affected in Latitude data breach rises to 14M
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot powered by GPT-4
146b threats detected worldwide in 2022
Thousands of customer IDs ransacked in Latitude cyber attack
Fortinet Global Threat Landscape Report for second half of 2022
PC company Acer confirms 160GB of data stolen in its latest breach
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30 November 2022
Financial services company Latitude has disclosed that the severity of its data breach in mid-March is much worse than initially reported. In a statement made on 16 March, Latitude announced 225,000 customer documents were stolen by attackers using employee login credentials. However, the number of records exposed is now expected to rise to 14 million […]
Microsoft announced last week it will be launching ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot’, an embedded productivity tool powered by revolutionary AI system, GPT-4. According to Microsoft, Copilot will be integrated with applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. The announcement was made three days after a Google revealed plans for AI features within Google Workspace, […]
A new report by security software company Trend Micro has revealed cyber threat detection has increased to record breaking numbers. Rethinking Tactics: 2022 Annual Cybersecurity Report found 146 billion threats detected from 2021 to 2022, an increase of 55 per cent. Trend Micro’s Technical Director for Australia and New Zealand, Mick McCluney, stated that the […]
Over 100,000 identification documents were stolen as part of an attack on Latitide Group Holdings (LGH). In a statement made on 16 March, LGH announced customer documents such as driver’s licenses and customer records were stolen by attackers using employee login credentials. The ASX statement was made as part of a cyber incident report requesting […]
Fortinet Global Threat Landscape Report for second half of 2022 Fortinet has released its semiannual Global Threat Landscape Report for the second half of 2022. The report by FortiGuard Labs, the threat intelligence and research organisation at Fortinet, presents findings and insights from six months of intense research. The key highlights from the report include […]
Acer has confirmed one of its servers has been hacked with 160GB of data being accessed. The Taiwanese PC manufacturer recently detected unauthorised access to one of its document servers for repair technicians. On March 6 a threat actor posted on a popular hacking forum that they had obtained a hoard of technical data from […]