Collaborate Disseminate
Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust Users of Meta’s WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature that combines multiple securi… Continue reading Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle
Plus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that’s just the yeast of everyone’s problems. The extortionist gang also claims to have stolen data from CarMax and Edmunds, … Continue reading Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim
Reports say Salt Typhoon attackers accessed handsets of senior govt folk Chinese state-linked hackers are accused of spending years inside the phones of senior Downing Street officials, exposing private communications at the heart of the UK government.… Continue reading China-linked group accused of spying on phones of UK prime ministers’ aides – for years
French govt says state-run service ‘Visio’ will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before? France has officially told Zoom, Teams, and the rest of the US videoconferencing herd to take a hike in favor of its own homegrown app.… Continue reading France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative
Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case Updated Microsoft illegally installed cookies on a school pupil’s devices without consent, according to a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority (DSB).… Continue reading Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid’s tech, data protection ruling finds
Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met’s policies are incompatible with human rights law The High Court will hear from privacy campaigners this week who want to reshape the way the Metropolitan Police is allowed to use live facial recognition … Continue reading High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep
Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes. Updated Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used in r… Continue reading Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch
Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself.… Continue reading Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign
Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool The European Commission has launched an investigation into X amid concerns that its GenAI model Grok offered users the ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including sexualized ima… Continue reading EU looking into Elon Musk’s X after Grok produces deepfake sex images
US sports brand launches probe after extortion crew WorldLeaks claims it stole huge dataset Nike says it is probing a possible breach after extortion crew WorldLeaks claimed to have lifted 1.4TB of internal data from the sportswear giant and posted sam… Continue reading Data thieves borrow Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB