Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It’s 2030 and China’s furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a full military invasion, China attempts to first cripple its rebellious neighbor’s critical infrastructure.… READ MORE HERE…

‘Minor issue’ with showing accounting customers ‘unrelated business information’ required repairs Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker’s accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.… READ MORE HERE…

The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.… READ MORE HERE…

With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over Updated  The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its Chinese parent ByteDance or face a ban in the United States. The decision eliminates the final legal obstacle to the federal government forcing a shutdown of the platform for US users on January 19.… READ MORE HERE…

Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn’t mere decoration on the pages of law books – it actually means carriers need to secure their networks, the FCC has huffed.… READ MORE HERE…

Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there’s something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis  Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in scope as it is late in the game.… READ MORE HERE…

Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.… READ MORE HERE…