Cyber Markets Round-up: Week 28, July '23: Laying out the foundation for effective cybersecurity responses

Plurilock CEO?Ian L. Paterson?goes into detail about how the behavioral biometrics technology allows for continuous authentication and top-notch security for users.

MOVEit cyber incident - Sun Life U.S.?from Sun Life's website

As announced on the Sun Life website, Pension Benefit Information, LLC (known as PBI), one of the vendors that Sun Life works with, advised that one of its servers was accessed by an unauthorized third party as part of the global attack.

What does this mean?

Some U.S. personal member information that Sun Life shared with PBI to support their business has been accessed.

On the brighter side of things

PBI has advised Sun Life that it is currently not aware of any indications of identity theft or fraud in relation to this event.

Suncor swaps out laptops after cybersecurity incident as energy sector takes stock of risks?from?CBC Canada

Suncor is replacing employee computers after a cybersecurity incident last week shut down debit and credit processing at Petro-Canada gas stations across the country, among a series of other security measures at the Calgary-based company.

It's not clear from the memo what the scope of the computer recall is or what departments were affected, but one expert said that if the recall is extensive, it would be an indication of a serious situation.

Within the oil and gas sector, ransomware is the primary threat to the country's reliable supply of oil and gas, according to the report from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, though the sector is also likely to be targeted by state-sponsored cyber espionage "for commercial or economic reasons.

Twitter Blocks Data Access To ChatGPT Tool, What Next??from?Coingape

After placing limits on how many tweets users can view per 24 hours, Elon Musk’s social media platform Twitter appears to have made a serious move when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbots like ChatGPT.

A new restriction placed on Twitter is reportedly affecting a blockage to the platform’s data access to ChatGPT web browser extension. Before taking effect, the OpenAI chatbot could easily browse Twitter data and perform regular actions like summarize a series of tweets.

Minnesota legislature increases investment in cybersecurity for state government, schools from?CBS News

State lawmakers this year earmarked millions for the effort to match federal funds in the federal infrastructure law specifically for cybersecurity.

The legislature approved $24 million for a grant program so school districts can boost cybersecurity and physical building vulnerabilities. It also authorized the use of existing "safe to school" revenue, used for safety needs, for digital safety upgrades.

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