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Okta Screws Up (Yet Again) — ALL Customers’ Data Hacked, not just 1%

You had one job: Last month’s sheer incompetence descends this week into UTTER FARCE ...

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Meta Sued for Ignoring its Underage Kids Problem (Because Money)

Don’t be square: Newly-unsealed COPPA suit says Zuck’s mob knows full well there are loads of users under the age of 13, but did nothing ...

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FCC’s Got New Rules for SIM-Swap and Port-Out Fraud

Too many times: Federal Communications Commission shuts stable door after horse bolted. But chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (pictured) was hoping it would save us ...

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Google to Force-Block Ad Blockers — Time to Get Firefox?

Richi Jennings | November 17, 2023 | ad blockers, ad-blocker, ad-blocking, adblock, adblockers, adblocking, adblocks, adtech, Advertising and AdTech, Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, google, Manifest V3, SB Blogwatch, uBlock Origin

Manifest V3: Destiny. Huge advertising monopoly flexes muscles: “Manifest V2” extensions to be nuked, but “V3” cripples ad blockers ...

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FBI’s Warrantless Spying on US Must Continue, Says FBI

Privacy, schmivacy: FBI head Christopher Wray (pictured) doesn’t see what all the fuss is about. Just renew FISA section 702 already! ...

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HALT! I am Reptar! Intel CPU Bug Panics Cloud Providers

IaaS Catch Fire: Google and Intel fuzz, find and fix a fabulous bug. Next up: More of the same ...

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LockBit Crashes Boeing Dark Web Data — No Ransom Paid

Richi Jennings | November 13, 2023 | Boeing, Lockbit, Lockbit 3.0, LockBit ransomware, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch

7oops7: Seattle plane maker tries to tell us the 50GB dump is ever so boring and not worth spinning up Tor for ...

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World’s Biggest Bank Hacked: ICBC Walks Trades on USBs

Richi Jennings | November 10, 2023 | china, Citrix, Citrix Bleed, Citrix Systems, CVE-2023-4966, ICBC, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Lockbit, Lockbit 3.0, LockBit ransomware, Ransomware, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Treasury, Treasury Department, U.S. Department of Treasury, U.S. Treasury Department

Plan B is sneakernet: After Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ransomware attack, U.S. Treasury trades settled by bike messengers with flash drives ...

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