Quote: “To put it bluntly, a single credential resulted in the exfiltration of potentially hundreds of companies that stored their data using Snowflake, with the threat actor himself suggesting 400 companies are impacted. The goal of the threat actor, as in most cases, was to blackmail Snowflake into buying their own data back...
So apparently the hackers targeted Snowflake customers, Ticketmaster Santander etc, who FOR SOME REASON, DIDN’T HAVE 2FA TURNED ON ON THEIR SNOWFLAKE ACCOUNT?! HUH!!?
Access was gained through a third-party cloud database provider, which we know to be Snowflake.
The only exception is private messages, and some users have reported difficulty opting out.
Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
Would you like a spicy spaghetti dish? Just use some gasoline.
The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
Who really does hope something from the “DnT”...
Greg Sadetsky introduces his demo, Sagittarius, as a response to Google’s Gemini. Utilizing GPT-4, Sadetsky’s demo showcases real-time capabilities similar to those claimed by Gemini but were lacking in Google’s demonstration.
Twitter enforces strict restrictions against external parties using its data for AI training, yet it freely utilizes data created by others for similar purposes.
The EDPB issued an urgent binding decision that essentially bans Meta from using personal data for behavioral advertising in the entire European Economic Area (EEA).
This change will force its users into binding arbitration, which is a means to resolve disputes (such as a cybersecurity breach leaking your DNA data) outside of court.
Microsoft is working on a Jarvis that will monitor anything and everything about your digital life to try and optimize your life for “well being”.
Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook’s parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
The court found that LinkedIn cannot ignore “Do Not Track” signals sent by users’ browsers. These signals allow internet users to opt-out of having their online activities tracked. Despite receiving these signals, LinkedIn still announced on its website that it engages in tracking for analysis and marketing purposes. The...
I’m seeing a lot of reports from users of Huawei and Honor devices have reported that their phones are incorrectly identifying Google apps as Trojan malware, specifically labeled as TrojanSMS-PA. According to the alert, this “malicious software” has the ability to send SMS messages without user consent.
Out with the old: Microsoft’s decision to phase out VBScript marks the end of an era....
If you haven’t been following the Google vs. US Justice Department antitrust case, you probably didn’t know that Google tried extremely hard to avoid having any trial documents posted online. That was eventually overturned by Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the case.
In case you missed the news, there’s a critical 0day in WebP (a heap buffer overflow in the libwepb library) floating about, which was initially issued as CVE-2023-4863 and assigned specifically to Google Chrome. At the time this happened, I wrote my blog post about it and vehemently tried to make it clear that it wasn’t...
