Data Security

Microsoft announced that it’s expanding the general availability of Azure OpenAI, which allows more businesses to apply for access to AI models such as GPT-3.5, Codex and DALL•E 2. 

University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany was hit by a cyberattack in November that has been claimed by the Vice Society ransomware operation, which has also exposed data allegedly stolen from the university, including sensitive details involving its operations, students, and employees, reports BleepingComputer.

Cyberattack compromises largest Canadian alcohol retailer's site BleepingComputer reports that Canada's largest beverage alcohol retailer Liquor Control Board of Ontario had its website compromised in a cyberattack that involved malicious code injection for customer and credit card data exfiltration at checkout.

Meta has sued surveillance service Voyager Labs alleging that it developed proprietary software that leveraged fake accounts to facilitate data scraping campaigns targeted at the users of its services Facebook and Instagram, as well as YouTube, Twitter, Telegram, and LinkedIn, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

CircleCI revealed in a late Friday update that a breach of their IT systems last December was done through the compromise of an employee's laptop and credentials, both of which were used to steal valuable internal and customer data. The company is now working with multiple third-party providers to rotate secrets, tokens and is aware of "less than five" customers who have reported unauthorized access to their third-party applications following the hack.

Once the exclusive province of government and military systems, database encryption has come of age, as enterprises seek more potent measures to secure data.

Texas-based employee benefit plan administrator Bay Bridge Administrators had more than 251,000 individuals' personal data compromised following a data breach in September, reports SecurityWeek.