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One thing to let people rent your home, quite another to let them access your private comms Airbnb says it has fixed a baffling bug in its website that briefly caused some of its users to be shown messages belonging to others when viewing their account inboxes.… READ MORE HERE…
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After he was demoted and fired, idiot logged into office PC from home and wiped storage systems An IT guy, who was tasked with locking out ex-employees from the company network, has been jailed after he logged in after being fired and wiped an office’s computer storage drives.… READ MORE HERE…
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Software giant is ‘investigating’, infosec gurus reckon it looks legit The source code for Windows XP and other elderly Microsoft operating systems appears to have leaked online as the mega-corp’s Ignite developer shindig came to an end.… READ MORE HERE…
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Local reports suggest individuals can’t be identified… yet Spain’s highways agency is using bulk mobile phone data for monitoring speeding hotspots, according to local reports.… READ MORE HERE…
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Hacker had set up shop on network using stolen Office 365 accounts An unspecified US government agency was hacked by a miscreant who appears to have made off with archives of information.… READ MORE HERE…
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Your most powerful admins are the weakest links. But CyberArk are here to help SPONSORED The consequences of cybercrime are ever more costly, with Accenture’s Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime Study showing the average financial impact per company rose by $1.4m to $13m in 2018.… READ MORE HERE…
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Scan servers for signs of compromise and patch if you haven’t already The rather concerning design flaw in Microsoft’s netlogon protocol is being exploited in the wild by miscreants, the Windows giant’s security team has warned.… READ MORE HERE…
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Digital Growth Experts Ltd hit send on 16k+ messages. The fine? £3.70 per text Digital Growth Experts Ltd (DGEL) is nursing a £60,000 smackdown doled out by the UK’s data watchdog after it sent out thousands of nuisance marketing text messages about hand sanitisers during the coronavirus outbreak.… READ MORE HERE…
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Accused senior management insist they weren’t involved Four of the seven former eBay employees charged with cyberstalking a couple critical of the web auction house are scheduled to plead guilty next month.… READ MORE HERE…
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Not personal info, but there are worries over deanonymisation. Remember that AOL research database? Microsoft exposed a 6.5TB Elastic server to the world, including search terms, location coordinates, device ID data, and a partial list of which URLs were visited, earlier this month.… READ MORE HERE…
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