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Stefanie Schappert

New York

Senior Journalist at CyberNews

#cybersecurity #cyberchick #cyberstef #cybersecuritystef M.S. Cybersecurity | Senior Journalist @CyberNews writer, reporter, news producer

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  • 2 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

    The Trump administration is "noticeably absent" from this year's Pall Mall conference in France, where 21 nations signed a pact vowing responsible government use of spyware, surveillance, and other commercially available cyber intrusion tools. Hosted by France and the UK, the second annual Pall Mall conference was held at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris on April 3rd and 4th, and attended by at least 45 nations.

  • 2 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

    The US Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Tuesday disclosed to Congress that hackers had access to the email accounts of top federal banking regulators and 150,000 staff emails for over a year. According to two sources and a draft letter to Congress reportedly seen by Bloomberg News, the attackers were able to hijack “about 103 bank regulators’ emails for more than a year,” after breaking into an OCC administrator's account.

  • 2 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

    The White House on Monday issued not one, but two revised “America First” policies that pledge to “rapidly and responsibly” adopt the use of artificial intelligence to “modernize” the federal government. The new directives are part of President Trump’s plan to “maintain America’s global dominance in AI,” according to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, who were jointly responsible for revamping the documents.

  • 2 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

    Big-name news outlets – including The Guardian and Fortune – have been duped into using dozens of AI-generated “subject matter experts” as reliable sources in hundreds of published news articles. That’s according to a new deep dive investigation published Monday by veteran tech and science journalist Rob Waugh of the UK media trade publication the Press Gazette.

  • 2 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

    OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Friday teased the release of its highly anticipated GPT-5 model. Altman also announced the company was making its ChatGPT Plus service free to US and Canadian college students through May 31st. Altman, who had announced the no-cost news Thursday afternoon on X, said the upgraded ChatGPT Plus service, which regularly costs about $20 a month, will be free to all college students in the US and Canada until the end of May.

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cyberstef @stefschappert
11 Mar 25

Hacktivist group Dark Storm takes on X, knocking out Musk's platform for thousands of users to protest the DOGE-master and his "lack of humanity." #takedowntwitter @CyberNews https://t.co/NsbRtbsO1h

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cyberstef @stefschappert
20 Jan 25

A lttle history never hurt anyone. here is my latest: The first US President who took to texting may surprise you, and other White House tech tales https://t.co/1mv4PoCbBn

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cyberstef @stefschappert
17 Jan 25

The Supreme Court has the last word over TikTok, for now at least. We'll see what happens come Monday when Trump is sworn into office. Supreme Court upholds law to ban TikTok this Sunday https://t.co/QOM38ezsI2