Mathew J Schwartz
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Executive Editor - DataBreachToday and Europe for Information Security Media Group, covering all things security & privacy (U.K., Europe, U.S., and beyond ... )
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Joined June 2014
"Cyber is not effective for deterrence. It is a terrible tool for deterrence." — @DAlperovitch shares lessons learned from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the role/use of cyber operations in future conflicts. Watch our @RSAConference interview ▶
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Recent real-world conflicts have limned the potential and limitations of cyber operations in warfare, said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of Silverado Policy
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It's 2025 and a new US Senate bill seeks privacy protection for brain wave data. Say hello to the Management of Individuals' Neural Data Act, aka the MIND Act. https://t.co/1cBShdIDYG
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View to a patch: As Google tweaks its vulnerability disclosure, experts laud Project Zero's push for greater transparency and getting patches into end users' hands more quickly
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Google is trying out a new approach to publicizing flaws found by its in-house bug hunters meant to get patches more rapidly into end users' hands. Under a trial
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Seychelles Commercial Bank notifies customers their personal data was breached. Hacker claims to have exploited flaw in Oracle WebLogic Server, sold stolen data. https://t.co/xabSfTB8gd
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Seychelles Commercial Bank is warning customers that a hacker stole their personal information - but no money - from their accounts after breaching its systems. The
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Academics are introducing the phrase "potemkin understanding" to characterize how large language models that excel at conceptual benchmarks can't grasp the ideas they seem to master. https://t.co/ZiuuYA58Rx
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MIT, Harvard and University of Chicago researchers say models suffer from "potemkin understanding," referring to an illusion where models ace conceptual
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Well, @OpenAI just banned @ChatGPT from giving medical advice. @Doctronic is built different: peer-reviewed clinical validation, a network of licensed physicians across all 50 states, and partnerships that let us keep expanding. We're not pulling back. We're moving forward.
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Looking tough: Russian officials trumpet Pro-Ukraine hacker arrests, seeking positive PR Stories as Putin's war drags on. https://t.co/1JiMQCl2V2
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Russian authorities regularly trumpet the arrest and sentencing of citizens who offer hacking support to Ukrainian forces. Experts say the extent to which official
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—Feds uncover North Korean crypto theft and employment fraud scam
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Weekly Cryptohack Roundup —Inside Iran's largest crypto exchange —European police dismantle crypto fraud network —Resupply stablecoin exploited for $9.5 million —Pennsylvania man sentenced to 8 years, over $40 million Ponzi scheme https://t.co/vfaOzcF714
databreachtoday.com
This week, a peek into Iran's largest crypto exchange blending privacy, scale and sanctions evasion, Europol and Spanish police dismantled a crypto fraud network,
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— United Natural Foods restores systems after June 5 attack —Flaw found in smart tractors —RomCom RAT linked to TransferLoader malware —British man sentenced for locking employer out of network —WordPress hack installs a Windows Trojan.
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Weekly Data Breach Roundup —Fake retail sites in China mimic real brands to steal $$$ —Spain busts suspected data-leaking hackers —Ransomware targets Swiss health nonprofit —International Criminal Court probes cyberattack https://t.co/awrTfy27zP
databreachtoday.com
This week, Chinese sites mimicked brands, Spain arrested data leak hackers, Swiss health nonprofit ransomware attack, ICC probed a cyberattack, UNFI restored
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French police reportedly bust five administrators of the notorious site BreachForums, which facilitated the buying and selling of breached databases, hacking tools. https://t.co/jhbWKiIhPD
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French police have reportedly busted five suspected hackers - "IntelBroker," "ShinyHunters," "Hollow," "Noct" and
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Israel-Iran War: Hacktivist groups' claimed activity surges, in what typically amounts—at most—to psychological operations https://t.co/4xYEu7Ez1K
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Missile exchanges over the skies of Israel and Iran entered their eight day, wreaking death and destruction. Hacktivists are taking that as their cue to join the
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Victims who share intelligence about #ransomware attacks are helping police to directly disrupt the criminal syndicates involved, says Magnus Jelen, lead director of incident response for the U.K. and EMEA at @coveware/@Veeam. Watch here▶️ https://t.co/mOvKWYbmem
@Infosecurity
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Cybercriminals are evolving their tactics under law enforcement pressure. Magnus Jelen, lead director of incident response at Coveware/Veeam, says organizations
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Infostealer malware targeted by police via Operation Secure, with 32 suspects arrested across Asia-Pacific during Interpol-coordinated crackdown. https://t.co/4IkVt0BANz
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Interpol on Wednesday unveiled Operation Secure, an information-stealing malware crackdown that it coordinated, resulting in the arrest of 32 suspects and the
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Naughty AI: OpenAI's o3 spotted ignoring shutdown instructions https://t.co/pjs72akrz1
databreachtoday.com
Holding down a misbehaving device's power button to forcibly turn it off and on again remains a trusted IT tactic since the dawn of the digital age. Enter a new
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Quantum Quantum, Jensen Jensen, Quantum Quantum, Huang Huang (Quantum Quantum) Quantum Electronics! Ontology << And >> Cosmology!! ElectroMagnetism is the Universal substrate of superpositional experience, of Creation, across the entire Light-signal & Plasma-group wave spectrum
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Attackers maintaining access to fully patched Fortinet gear thanks to symbolic links they've already planted to give themselves read-only access. Fortinet has released a new set of patches designed to find/block these symlinks.
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Attackers have been using a new type of post-exploitation technique to maintain remote access to hacked Fortinet FortiGuard devices - even if they had the latest
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Experts warn Congress another Salt Typhoon attack is coming, and that the Trump administration's use of unsecured platforms and third-party messaging apps such as Signal could leave serious government secrets wide open to foreign adversaries. https://t.co/cUoBa3ZYan
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Experts told lawmakers on Wednesday that without urgent federal action to strengthen cyber defenses and additional efforts to improve the cybersecurity practices of
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Weekly Cryptohack Roundup —Abracadabra loses $13M to hack —U.S. Treasury Department lifts Tornado Cash sanctions —South Korean faces prison for stabbing crypto CEO —Hollywood director charged with using investments into his TV show to buy crypto https://t.co/JHVp2gXbwx
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This week, Abracadabra hack, updates on Tornado Cash and Bybit, $7M scam money recovery, man faces prison for stabbing crypto CEO, movie director charged for
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We're all human. Who among us hasn't lost a thumb drive or added a journalist to a consumer-grade encrypted app group chat devoted to White House war planning and military operations? https://t.co/9qsUKRBAwC
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We're all human. Who among us hasn't lost a thumb drive or added a journalist to a consumer-grade encrypted app group chat devoted to White House war planning and military operations? Still, some...
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China borrows from feds' anti-hacker psychological playbook: supposed Taiwanese nation-state hackers get unmasked by China's Ministry of State Security https://t.co/Tt3lROB54x
@shakirov2036 @weberv_
databreachtoday.com
Nothing beats messing with your adversaries' heads than taking a page from their psychological operations playbook. Witness China's Ministry of State Security unmasking four Taiwanese government...
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The Khorus ecosystem has launched. Think Cursor, but powered by on-chain agents that coordinate, create, and own. $KHO Contract: 0x44Cf455DEc530Bb165Bf218b4af1B559664117cB
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