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Huge Leak of Customer Data Includes Military Personnel Info

Jeffrey Burt | November 25, 2024 | china, elasticsearch, enamelpins, leaked data, Phishing

EnamelPins, which manufactures and sells medals, pins, and other emblematic accessories, for months left open an Elasticsearch instance that exposed 300,000 customer emails, including 2,500 from military and government personnel. The company, ...

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Canadian “mounties” marching down the street

Ô! China Hacks Canada too, Says CCCS

Plus brillants exploits: Canadian Centre for Cyber Security fingers Chinese state sponsored hackers ...

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“Oh, won’t somebody please think of the children?”

Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs

Richi Jennings | October 9, 2024 | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?

For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ...

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China, threats, scams, CISA TP-Link Volt Typhoon Salt Typhoon

FBI Disrupts Another Massive Chinese-Linked Botnet

Jeffrey Burt | September 18, 2024 | Botnet Attack, china, DDoS attack, Flax Typhoon, Mirai Malware

The FBI and other U.S. and international law enforcement agencies disrupted a massive botnet created by China-linked threat group Flax Typhoon that had pulled in more than 200,000 IoT and other connected ...

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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it

Richi Jennings | September 18, 2024 | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages

No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...

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China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target

Richi Jennings | August 28, 2024 | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon

Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...

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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC

Richi Jennings | August 5, 2024 | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?

For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...

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Chinese cybercrime illegal online gambling

Complex Technology Stack Supports Sprawling Chinese Crime Operation

Jeffrey Burt | July 22, 2024 | china, Cyber Crime, illegal gambling, Vigorish Viper

A cybercrime group called Vigorish Viper runs a complex suite of technologies that support the sprawling operations of a Chinese crime syndicate that has its reach into illegal online sports gambling and ...

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Article from MIT Technology Review -- How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI

Paperclip Maximizers, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity

davehull | July 7, 2024 | AGI, Artificial Intelligence, china, Existential Risk, Natural Stupidity

Existential risk from AISome believe an existential risk accompanies the development or emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Quantifying the probability of this risk is a hard problem, to say nothing of ...

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