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Twitch ditches Safety Advisory Council, relaunches with vetted 'ambassadors'

Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear? Twitch has reportedly dismantled its Safety Advisory Council, and apparently plans to replace the panel with chosen "ambassadors."…

Sat Jun 1, 2024 02:18
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers

Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Infosec analysts at Hudson Rock believe Snowflake was compromised by miscreants who used that intrusion to steal data on hundreds of millions of people from Ticketmaster, Santander, and potentially other customers of the cloud storage provider. Snowflake denies its security was defeated.…

Sat Jun 1, 2024 00:54
US senator claims UnitedHealth's CEO, board appointed 'unqualified' CISO

Similar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a far smaller scale Serial tech and digital privacy critic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid into UnitedHealth Group's (UHG) CEO for appointing a CISO Wyden deemed "unqualified"– a decision he claims likely led to its ransomware catastrophe of late.…

Sat Jun 1, 2024 00:35
Cyber cops plead for info on elusive Emotet mastermind

Follows arrests and takedowns of recent days After the big dog revelations from the past week, the cops behind Operation Endgame are now calling for help in tracking down the brains behind the Emotet operation.…

Fri May 31, 2024 22:26
New Nork-ish cyberespionage outfit uncovered after three years

Sector-agnostic group is after your data, wherever you are Infosec researchers revealed today a previously unknown cybercrime group that's been on the prowl for three years and is behaving like some of the more dangerous cyber baddies under Kim Jong-Un's watch.…

Fri May 31, 2024 18:33
Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest

Starting Monday, users will gradually be warned the end is near On Monday, some people using Beta, Dev, and Canary builds of Google Chrome will be presented with a warning when they access their browser's extension management page – located at chrome://extensions.…

Fri May 31, 2024 14:19

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