Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers. Read via Ars Technica.
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YouTube accused of collecting UK children’s data
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
YouTube has been accused of collecting the viewing data of children aged under 13, in breach of a UK data privacy code designed to protect children. Read via BBC News.
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Canada bans TikTok on government devices
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Canada will ban video app TikTok from all government-issued devices starting on Tuesday. Read via BBC News.
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Privacy Concerns Raised Over Android Apps’ Data Safety Labels
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Google Play Store’s new Data Safety labels have been criticized for being inaccurate in nearly 80% of cases. Read via Infosecurity Magazine.
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Security Think Tank: Poor training is worse than no training at all
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Bad security training is a betrayal of users, a security risk, and ultimately a waste of money, but there are some reasons to be optimistic about the future, say Mike Gillespie and Ellie Hurst of Advent IM. Read via Computer Weekly.
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European Commission bans TikTok on staff devices
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Staff working at the European Commission have been ordered to remove the TikTok app from their phones and corporate devices. Read via BBC Tech.
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Phishing Sites and Apps Use ChatGPT as Lure
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Security researchers have warned of several new Windows and Android phishing campaigns using ChatGPT to trick users into unwittingly downloading malware and handing over their credit card details. Read via Infosecurity Magazine.
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Samsung Launches Message Guard to Protect Users From Cyber-Threats
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Samsung has released a new smartphone feature designed to protect user devices from threats disguised as image attachments. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Hackers Ran Amok Inside GoDaddy for Nearly 3 Years
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Web hosting group, GoDaddy confessed this week, a group of hackers it had repeatedly spotted inside its network had returned and have been wreaking havoc since at least March 2020. Read via Wired.
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Hackers Leverage PayPal to Send Malicious Invoices
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Threat actors have been leveraging the online payments system PayPal to send malicious invoices directly to users through the platform. Read Here.
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