Gigabytes of ‘sensitive’ internal Intel documents dumped online

Chip giant Intel is investigating the leak of what appears to be a 20 GB cache of internal documents, some of which are marked “confidential,” after it appeared on various messaging platforms and data hosting sites. An Intel spokesperson told CyberScoop that the data looks to be from the company’s Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for customers, partners and other external parties that have access. “We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data,” a spokesperson told CyberScoop. The cache, dubbed “Intel exconfidential Lake,” is mostly comprised of training manuals and other technical documents for various software and firmware development kits. However, a section marked “Intel Restricted Secret” contains data on a March 2020 version of Intel’s 2016 Kaby Lake Platforms Silicon Initialization Code, which works with Intel BIOS. A post in a Telegram channel highlighted some of the other contents in the cache: It is […]

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Zoom Removes Facebook SDK on iOS Because It Sent Back Unnecessary Information

After reports that the Zoom app on iOS was sending details about the users’ devices to Facebook, even if they had no Facebook account, the company announced that it removed the Facebook SDK from the application. The Facebook SDK sends telemetry b… Continue reading Zoom Removes Facebook SDK on iOS Because It Sent Back Unnecessary Information

Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.
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