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29 Apr

Unsuspecting Tinder user stumbles upon King Henry VIII, long live the king! | #tinder | #pof

Many people believe that humans can only live for 115 years tops but, as it turns out, the cure for mortality may date back as far as the 1500s. Of course, this was only recently discovered and the cure is...
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23 Mar

User Survey 2020 Report Shows Rapid Growth In Apache Pulsar Adoption

For the first time ever, the Apache Pulsar PMC team is publishing a user survey report. The 2020 Apache Pulsar User Survey Report reveals Pulsar’s accelerating rate of global adoption, details how organizations are leveraging Pulsar to build real-time streaming...
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6 Mar

Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Employee’ Email Accounts and Steal User’ Data

If you are a T-Mobile customer, this news may concern you. US-based telecom giant T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach incident that recently exposed personal and accounts information of both its employees and customers to unknown hackers. What happened?...
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29 Feb

#nationalcybersecuritymonth | Hillicon Valley — Presented by Facebook — FCC fines mobile carriers $200M for selling user data | Twitter verified fake 2020 candidate | Dems press DHS to complete election security report | Reddit chief calls TikTok spyware

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Welcome to Hillicon Valley, The Hill’s newsletter detailing all you need to know about the tech and cyber news from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley. If you don’t already, be sure...
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27 Dec

#hacking | Fashion rental company HURR Collective exposed user information through misconfigured plugin

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Email addresses were leaked in website’s source code HURR Collective, a UK-based fashion rental company, has notified around 400 users of a data security incident that resulted in their email addresses...
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18 Dec

Protecting programmatic access to user data with Binary Authorization for Borg

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Binary Authorization for Borg, or BAB, is an internal deploy-time enforcement check that reduces insider risk by ensuring that production software and configuration deployed at Google is properly reviewed and authorized,...
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22 Oct

Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts — Krebs on Security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or...
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18 Oct

Tinder user mortified after potential date asks her to help him rob a bank | #tinder | #pof

Danielle had only downloaded Tinder a day earlier on October 14 when she received the bizarre message. The 19-year-old student, from Houston, Texas, had matched with the promising man and began messaging him on the dating app. But things took...
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3 Apr

540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers

It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy...
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12 Jul

Malicious Software Packages Found On Arch Linux User Repository

Yet another incident which showcases that you should not explicitly trust user-controlled software repositories. One of the most popular Linux distros Arch Linux has pulled as many as three user-maintained software repository AUR packages after it was found hosting malicious...
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