Techstrong News Recap – February 2, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for February 2nd. First up open AI the creator of chat GTP has introduced a new tool called the AI text classifier to help determine the author of a work. Although openai has highlighted its limitations.

It claims that the tool can also spot AI misuses like automated disinformation campaigns. The use of Chachi GTP and academic settings has raised concerned over academic dishonesty. As some school districts such as the New York City school district have banned its use others are considering using it as a teaching tool.

Even universities across the world are discussing the responsible use of this AI technology. Openai stated that it is currently working on developing new guidelines for educators, but it is not made any specific recommendations yet. Zooming out openai and chat GTP continue to be hot topics as it receives growing attention from the public and governments and has the support of billions of dollars and investment from Microsoft.

As this technology continues to be adopted it will make us have to answer tough questions considering academic dishonesty and other ethical concerns. Next up Google cellular network provider Google fi has confirmed the data breach that is believed to be connected to the recent security incident at T-Mobile. In an email sent to its customers Google informed them of suspicious activity on a third party support system that contained Google fi customer data.

This being said Google stated that the hackers only had access to a limited amount of customer information such as phone numbers account status SIM card serial numbers and mobile service plan details. Google has stated that is working with the network provider to secure the data on the third party system and we'll notify those who may have been impacted. Google has also stated that it would take additional steps to secure the data on third-party systems by identifying and implementing measures to prevent future breaches.

It is currently unclear how many Google fi subscribers have been affected by the breach and the company has not yet confirmed. If the incident is linked to the most recent T-Mobile hack, but the close timing of the breach and the fact that Google uses T-Mobile and US Cellular for Network Services suggest a connection to the hack. While on the topic of security breaches JD Sports, the uk-based sportswear chain has suffered a Cyber attack that may have exposed the personal information of 10 million customers.

The information that could have been accessed includes names addresses email addresses phone numbers and the final four digits of bank cards. According to reports the breach was related to an online order is placed between November 8 2018 in October of 2020. JD Sports is in the process of a collaborating with cybersecurity Specialists and is notified the UK's information commissioner's office about the situation.

Additionally, the company has warned effective customers to watch out for potential scams. The Cyber attack on JD Sports is part of the growing trend of cyber crime targeting UK companies as such with Royal Mail and the Guardian newspaper being hit in the past few months. Next up Ford is declared a reduction in price of up to $6,000 for its electric SUV the Mustang Mach e The move follows similar steps taken by Tesla the leader in EVS to decrease prices on most of its models.

Ford believes that its price cut will trigger a price War among automobile makers for electric vehicles, but also anticipates that automotors will try to maintain their profit margins on EVS as their market share increases. According to Ford the price cuts are part of his strategy to keep the Maki competitive in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle Market. This being said Nissan Chevrolet and Hyundai Kia have not yet announced any changes in prices?

As consumer demand for EVS continues to pick up car companies are desperately trying to get a piece of the pie and this price cut is indicative of just that. com. We've an article looking at a survey over 1,000 150 it professionals that shows devsecops challenges.

In the survey conducted by Cisco app Dynamics 76% of respondents believe that devsecops is essential for organizations, but only 43% have started to implement it. The survey then looks at several of the factors that are holding organizations back from adopting devsecops. com.

On Security Boulevard, we have an article. He had a report estimating a spike in common vulnerabilities and exposures or cve's per month. The report which was conducted by Coalition predicts that more than 1,900 cve's will be disclosed each month with 270 of them being high severity.

com. Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at Red Hats update to its openshift platform that adds operators to make security compliance and networking easier. Red Hat has stated that this update is meant to make it simpler to manage kubernetes at scale regardless of whether it's being deployed in the cloud at a data center or at the edge.

com. And that's today's text wrong news recap.