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Someone Found Over 180 Million User Records in an Unprotected Online Database
If you use the internet, you’ve probably had at least some personal information go missing. It’s just the nature of the web. But this latest discovery, as reported by Wired, is something different. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a public online database housing over 180 million records (184,162,718 to be exact) which amounted to more than 47GB of data. There…
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O2 UK patches bug leaking mobile user location from call metadata
A flaw in O2 UK’s implementation of VoLTE and WiFi Calling technologies could allow anyone to expose the general location of a person and other identifiers by calling the target. The problem was discovered by security researcher Daniel Williams, who says the flaw existed on O2 UK’s network since March 27, 2017, and was resolved yesterday. O2 UK is a British…
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TikTok fined €530 million for sending European user data to China
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union’s GDPR data protection regulations. The administrative fines imposed by the Irish watchdog consist of a fine of €485 million for its infringement of Article 46(1) GDPR…
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DeepSeek transferred user data without consent – Computerworld
DeepSeek has defended itself by saying that the data was passed on to improve the user experience, but this explanation is not accepted by South Korea’s data protection authority. The Chinese company also says it stopped forwarding the content starting April 10. DeepSeek is now being asked to immediately delete the data collected from South Korean users. Source link
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Microsoft Entra account lockouts caused by user token logging mishap
Microsoft confirms that the weekend Entra account lockouts were caused by the invalidation of short-lived user refresh tokens that were mistakenly logged into internal systems. On Saturday morning, numerous organizations reported that they began receiving Microsoft Entra alerts that accounts had leaked credentials, causing the accounts to be locked out automatically. Impacted customers initially thought the account lockouts were tied to the…
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Meta just revived plans to train AI models with European user data – here’s how you can opt out
Meta has confirmed plans to train AI models using European users’ public content and conversations with its Meta AI chatbot. Last year, Meta announced plans to train its AI on user data, but pressure from activists and regulators, as well as tighter data privacy laws in the EU, led it to pause that plan indefinitely. Meta also held back the…
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How to disable user account on Windows 11
To disable an account on Windows 11, open Command Prompt (Admin) and run the “net user “ACCOUNT” /active:no” command. Alternatively, in PowerShell (admin), run the “Disable-LocalUser -Name ACCOUNT” command. You can also disable local accounts on Windows 11 from Computer Management and the Settings app. On Windows 11, if you want to temporarily prevent a specific user from signing into…
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How to delete user accounts on Windows 11
On Windows 11, if your computer has multiple user accounts that are no longer needed, you can delete them in more than one way, and in this guide, I’ll explain how to complete this configuration. If you share a device with various users, you probably have configured a different account for each person so that they have their own space…
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Qualys discovers three bypasses of Ubuntu’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions
The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) says it has uncovered three flaws in Ubuntu’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions that could allow a local attacker to gain full administrative capabilities. Linux distributions generally allow unprivileged users to create namespaces that help in creating containers and additional sandboxing functionality for programs such as container runtimes, but that also creates a weak spot.…
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Exchange Online bug mistakenly quarantines user emails
Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online bug causing anti-spam systems to mistakenly quarantine some users’ emails. According to a new incident report added to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, the email issues started almost five hours ago, at 10:11 UTC. While the company has yet to share what regions are impacted, this Exchange Online incident has been tagged as a critical service issue tracked under EX1038119 on the…
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