HashiCorp Vault 1.0 released with batch tokens, updated UI and more
Yesterday, HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Vault 1.0. It is a tool that can be used to manage secrets and protect sensitive data for infrastructures and applications. This first major release focuses on high performance and scalability in workloads. Batch tokens in Vault 1.0 They are a new type of token with ... Read More
Uber fined by British ICO and Dutch DPA for nearly $1.2m over a data breach from 2016
British and Dutch authorities have fined Uber for a total of nearly $1.2m on Tuesday over a data breach incident that occurred in 2016. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) from UK imposed a £385,000 fine (close to $500,000) on Uber for “failing to protect customers’ personal information during a cyber ... Read More
The State of Mozilla 2017 report focuses on internet health and user privacy
The State of Mozilla 2017 report is out and contains information on areas where Mozilla has made an impact and its activities in 2017-18. We look at some of the important details from the report. Towards building a healthier internet In the last two years, there have been scandals and ... Read More
Email and names of Amazon customers exposed due to ‘technical error’; number of affected users unknown
Yesterday, some Amazon customers received an email stating that their names and email addresses have been revealed due to a ‘technical error’. There have been several reports of this on the internet. What is exposed? Amazon said that the users need not change their passwords. Only the emails and names ... Read More
DeepMasterPrints: ‘master key’ fingerprints made by a neural network can now fake fingerprints
New York University researchers have found a way to generate artificial fingerprints that can be used to create fake fingerprints. They do this by using a neural network. They have presented their work in a paper titled DeepMasterPrints: Generating MasterPrints for Dictionary Attacks via Latent Variable Evolution. The vulnerability in ... Read More
