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Security Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 21, 2023

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Latitude Financial shows us how not to do it. What's the scam?

=> ↺ Latitude Financial shows us how not to do it. What's the scam?

The recent [cr]acker attacks on Optus and Medibank have been well publicised and both companies roundly criticised for their handling of it. But over at Ahmed Fahour’s Latitude Financial they either didn’t read about that, or decided to copy their mistakes in handling it. What’s the scam?

The scam is that Latitude Financial’s customer data has been hacked, and like so many others in the same situation, they decided to hide behind obtuse press releases and vague – often changing – statements about the consequences for its customers.

Meta Manager Was [Breached] With Spyware and Wiretapped in Greece

=> ↺ Meta Manager Was [Breached] With Spyware and Wiretapped in Greece

The disclosure is the first known case of an American citizen being targeted in a European Union country by the advanced snooping technology, the use of which has been the subject of a widening scandal in Greece. It demonstrates that the illicit use of spyware is spreading beyond use by authoritarian governments against opposition figures and journalists, and has begun to creep into European democracies, even ensnaring a foreign national working for a major global corporation.

Calling Out The Security Community on AI

=> ↺ Calling Out The Security Community on AI

Instead, it’s our job to go in ourselves. Build the tools that find the mines. And yes, step on some ourselves.

We can’t sit out the IoT game, or now the AI game.

We can’t curmudgeon our way to protecting users.

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