The Information Highway

The Information Highway

Sergiu Gatlan has covered cybersecurity, technology, and other news beats for more than a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips.

Microsoft drops SMB1 firewall rules in new Windows 11 build

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Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. 

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Veeam warns of critical bugs in Veeam ONE monitoring platform

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Veeam released hotfixes today to address four vulnerabilities in the company's Veeam ONE IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform, two of them critical.

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OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages

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OpenAI has been addressing "periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours. 

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ChatGPT down after major outage impacting OpenAI systems

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"Between 5:42AM - 7:16AM PT we saw errors impacting all services. We identified the problem and implemented a fix. We are now seeing normal responses from our services," the company said. 

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WhatsApp now lets users hide their location during calls

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WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy feature that helps Android and iOS users hide their location during calls by relaying the connection through WhatsApp servers. 

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Top Breaches Cost ($) of 2024

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Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024