Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
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Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.
A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.
During installation, the router sent several data packets to an Amazon server in the US. These packets contained the configured SSID name and password in clear text, as well as some identification tokens for this network within a broader database and an access token for a user session that could potentially enable a MITM attack....
The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
The only exception is private messages, and some users have reported difficulty opting out.
The latest proposal mandates user consent for monitoring messages on all communication apps, including those with end-to-end encryption.
Would you like a spicy spaghetti dish? Just use some gasoline.
Access was gained through a third-party cloud database provider, which we know to be Snowflake.
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!!?
OpenAI, which is co-defendant with Microsoft, is seeking an informal discovery conference to compel the Times to produce documents demonstrating the originality and ownership of the copyrighted works in question. According to OpenAI’s court filing, the information is critical to their defense against claims of copyright...
Who really does hope something from the "DnT"...
An unidentified individual has listed the data of 760,000 Discord.io users for sale on a darknet forum. This discovery was brought to light by the "Information Leaks" Telegram channel, associated with the Russian service for tracking vulnerabilities, data leaks, and monitoring fraudulent online resources....
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.
Zoom's updated policy states that all rights to Service Generated Data are retained solely by Zoom. This extends to Zoom's rights to modify, distribute, process, share, maintain, and store such data "for any purpose, to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable law.", including AI and Machine Learning.
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.
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".