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150,000 personal records on people, including US veterans, upset with their healthcare In what has become a depressingly common occurrence, the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people may have fallen into the wrong hands because yet another organization did not secure a cloud-hosted database.… READ MORE HERE…

Contents were cached by Google so we can all point and giggle Someone in the Parliamentary Digital Service managed to leave a server so completely exposed to the internet that Google indexed the Windows machine’s operating system.… READ MORE HERE…

Tweet deleted as telly maker reconsiders damning but refreshingly honest messaging Samsung on Sunday sent out a tweet urging people to check their Sammy smart TVs for viruses – and then deleted the message, as if someone realized that highlighting the risks posed by connected TVs may be bad for business.… READ MORE HERE…

We said engineers made the API too powerful. We weren’t wrong Analysis  In a mild PR blitz, Google engineers this month insisted the ad giant’s shake up of Chrome browser extensions won’t kill advert blockers. Instead, we’re told, Googlers are making the plugins safer. Those engineers have more work to do than it may seem.… READ MORE HERE…

Your quick guide to hacks, patches and scandal Roundup  Here’s a quick roundup of recent infosec news beyond what we’ve already reported.… READ MORE HERE…

Guys, your security hygiene stinks Akamai Edge World  Players of games like Fortnite and Minecraft have emerged as juicy targets for cybercriminals.… READ MORE HERE…

For FIPS sake! Yubico is recalling one of its YubiKey lines after the authentication dongles were found to have a security weakness.… READ MORE HERE…

Uncle Sam sounds alarm after Windows CE SMB left wide open on hospital equipment Two security vulnerabilities in medical workstations can exploited by scumbags to hijack the devices and connected infusion pumps, potentially causing harm to patients, the US government revealed today.… READ MORE HERE…

That Guns N’ Roses album* might be out soon… or not Chat app Telegram has reportedly been DDoS’d, with its downtime coinciding with protests in Hong Kong against repressive new Chinese laws.… READ MORE HERE…

Immerse yourself in forensic training with autumn Promo  If you work in digital forensics or incident response and would like to advance to a higher level, the annual Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) event staged by security training company SANS is a must.… READ MORE HERE…