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Told your organisation is leaking data? Here’s how not to respond

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Dissent

How many times have I blogged about “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” — the inappropriate response of some entities when notified that they have a leak or data breach? Here’s a current example, as noted by Graham Cluley. It all started routinely enough: Platform engineer and open source enthusiast Rob Dyke says that he’s found himself…

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A bug in a popular iPhone app exposed thousands of call recordings

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A security vulnerability in a popular iPhone call recording app exposed thousands of users’ recorded conversations. The flaw was discovered by Anand Prakash, a security researcher and founder of PingSafe AI, who found that the aptly named Call Recorder app allowed anyone to access the call recordings from other users — by knowing their…

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Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Dissent

William Turton reports: A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools. Companies whose footage was exposed include carmaker Tesla Inc. and software provider Cloudflare Inc. In addition, hackers were able to…

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Data leak at Dutch foreign credential assessment service impacts 18,000

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Dissent

ANP reports (translation): Foreigners looking for a job in the Netherlands can obtain an assessment of their diploma on the labor market from the organization Nuffic. The application system used by Nuffic has been tested by some sixty software developers in Serbia. This country is not part of the European Union, which means that rather strict rules…

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Right-wing militants furious after data leak exposes their involvement in paramilitary group

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Dissent

Travis Gettys reports: The data leak from the American Patriots Three Percent website revealed the names, phone numbers and photographs of members — who ranged in age from their 20s to 70s and were drawn from a variety of backgrounds — that were obtained by activists who posted the information on an internet archiving site, reported The…

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Indian state government website exposed COVID-19 lab test results

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker covers a data leak first reported by BleepingComputer.  You can read TechCrunch’s report on the incident here.

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