LastPass admits new hack, some customer data exposed
Attackers were able to use information from an August hack to recently get into t
Ontario appeal court limits privacy claim in data breach lawsuits
In Ontario data breach victims can’t sue organizations for intrusion upon seclusion, says appeal court. But, warns a lawyer, a new right to sue is coming in proposed f
Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for domain controllers
Update fixes an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Kerberos auth
Amazon set to hire staffs for cloud units despite economic challenges
Amazon’s hiring freeze did not last for long as it has revealed that it intends to hire for its cloud units next year, despite previously declaring a hiring freeze due to worsening economic conditions and planning to lay off approximately 10,000 employees. AWS SVP of Sales and Marketing Mark Garman said he expected to start […]
IBM and Maersk discontinue blockchain-based supply chain platform
Four years after its launch, IBM and Danish logistics firm Maersk have decided to discontinue their co-developed blockchain-backed supply chain platform, TradeLens, citing a lack of global industry collaboration and inability to achieve it as the reason for the decision. In 2018, TradeLens was launched with the goal of digitizing and simplifying global supply chains. […]
Microsoft 365 banned in German schools due to privacy concerns
Due to privacy concerns raised by the use of US cloud providers, federal German data protection authorities have prohibited the use of Microsoft Office 365 in schools. According to the German Data Protection Conference (DSK), which includes the German Federal Data Protection Authority and 16 state regulators, the use of Microsoft 365 is not legally […]
Netflix CEO regrets previously resisting ads
Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings stated that the company should have entered the advertising market sooner after resisting the idea for years. He also stated that he was slow to embrace advertising on the streaming platform because he was preoccupied with digital competition from Facebook and Google. According to Hastings, Hulu demonstrated that streaming services could […]
Lilac Wolverine deployed to steal cash and giftcards
A Lilac Wolverine business email compromise (BEC) gang is launching widespread campaigns requesting gift cards. To begin, the threat actor compromises a personal email account and copies its contact list. The attackers then created a new email account with the same email address as the compromised account, but with a different provider (usually Gmail, Hotmail, […]
Twitter settles rift with Apple
Elon Musk said on Wednesday that a disagreement he had with Apple CEO Tim Cook about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store had been settled. Musk accused Apple of censorship and criticized its policies, including the 30% charge it levies on app store purchases. Musk tweeted less than three hours after thanking Cook […]
YouTube issues update on iOS crashes
YouTube said it had resolved a problem that had caused the platform to be unavailable to thousands of users on Wednesday. It’s unclear what’s causing the outage, but it appears to be limited to iOS. It doesn’t appear to be the result of a recent app update, and devices running on a 17.46.4 version are […]
