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🗲How to Diminish Damage from Third-Party Cyber Security Attacks🗲 🔒Action authentication 📝Note normalities 👁️Watch web apps Find out more 👉 https://t.co/vcqusUlxWo
#CyberSecurity #ThirdPartyCyberSecurityAttacks #CloudSecurity
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🚨 BREAKING #Google just activated #Gemini on #Gmail - without asking you. Turn it off now; here's how! https://t.co/zVLWwTQagI ✊️Fight AI & fight Google You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations. Share so everyone is aware. ❤️
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Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Microsoft confirms major issues affecting Windows Recovery (WinRE) in a mandatory security update for Windows 11 24H2 / 25H2. After October 2025 Update, you cannot use mouse and keyboard in WinRE. This means it's no longer possible to select options or navigate between different
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🚨⏳ Act now! You have until 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI. You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off. Here's how: Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for
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This is how you know the #OnlineSafetyAct is not about protecting kids or anyone’s safety. A developer built a free extension that achieves everything the law claims to do. It requires no censorship, no data collection, and no threats to websites. The only requirement is that a
The #onlineSafetyAct Under 18 extension. This is a proactive #privacy measure for concerned parents/guardians; allowing you to inform websites that your child is under 18 with absolutely no data collected. Note: This requires websites to actively check a unique header sent
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Bad news: your car is a spy. All 25 major car brands just flunked a privacy and security test by Mozilla. You’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal data as sensitive as race, weight, and sexual activity. https://t.co/UwE89ubJTW
gizmodo.com
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@hmacbe @Rainmaker1973 Yes, the 16 billion password breach is a real threat, confirmed by multiple cybersecurity reports. It involves credentials from platforms like Apple, Google, and Facebook, stolen via infostealer malware, not a single company breach. Risks include phishing and account hijacking
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Rumor has it you're rolling out a feature that automatically takes screenshots of people's computers every 3 seconds.
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School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen
theregister.com
Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021
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A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs with Windows, forcing them into a BSOD (blue screen of death). These are apparently the workaround steps.
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#TeamViewer, a software company, has disclosed that a compromised employee account allowed hackers to access its internal corporate IT environment, leading to the theft of encrypted passwords.
therecord.media
TeamViewer says that a recently discovered breach appears to be limited to its internal corporate IT network. The software company has attributed it to a hacking operation associated with Russian...
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Somewhat buried in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release this month is CVE-2024-30078 That allows someone in Wi-Fi range to run malware on a victim's Windows PC with no authentication. Wireless remote code execution Found by Beijing's Cyber Kunlun team https://t.co/BzkmH7j7fA
theregister.com
Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack
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Ticketmaster's parent company confirmed it found "unauthorized activity" within a cloud database that contained data from Ticketmaster in a filing to the SEC last week. https://t.co/AYyixffxRm
404media.co
404 Media also obtained a second, larger sample of the data, which is connected to genuine accounts on the Ticketmaster website.
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New: We obtained an internal database of employee-reported privacy incidents at Google that shows the huge breadth of data it has and the run-of-the-mill and spectacular ways it mishandles it all the time https://t.co/bOwZDRLdgV
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If you use Apple devices and iCloud, today would be a great day to turn on Advanced Data Protection and enable end-to-end encryption for all your backups.
support.apple.com
Advanced Data Protection for iCloud offers our highest level of cloud data security and protects the majority of your iCloud data using end-to-end encryption.
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Microsoft Overhauls Cybersecurity Strategy After Scathing CSRB Report -
securityweek.com
Microsoft security chief Charlie Bell pledges significant reforms and a strategic shift to prioritize security above all other product features.
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1,400 GitLab Servers Impacted by Exploited Vulnerability
securityweek.com
CISA says a critical GitLab password reset flaw is being exploited in attacks and roughly 1,400 servers have not been patched.
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