Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data
Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data
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Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
… Vercel confirmed in a post on X that a “security incident” had occurred, and that it impacted a “limited subset” of its customers. …
GitHub says a data breach impacted 3,800 internal repositories.
… Link: GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension | https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/ | BleepingComputer
Cybersecurity
Security Cybersecurity is the rickety scaffolding supporting everything you do online. …
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
… Security researcher Lukasz Olejnik described it to me as an “entirely imaginable” kind of failure that the cybersecurity industry has been routinely dealing with for the last 20 years. …
Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data
… Instructure said last week that it “deployed patches to enhance system security” following the breach. …
Attack of the killer script kiddies
… The Cloud Security Alliance released an expedited strategy briefing on developing a “Mythos-ready” security plan detailing many of these concepts. …
The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
… The FCC only states that the Pentagon has now made “a specific determination” that “such devices do not pose risks to U.S. national security.” That’s strange, given how the FCC’s original and exceptionally loose justification for the entire router ban was that foreign routers automatically pose a n… …
Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE
… The EFF alleges that this isn’t an isolated incident, and that “through a hidden but systemic practice, Google has likely violated that promise numerous other times over the years.” The EFF says it has learned that Google sometimes sends data over without authorizing users “in order to save time an… …
US Elections
… The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a memo freezing its election security efforts to review all work and positions “related to election security and countering mis- and- disinformation” at the state and local level since 2017, reports Wired . …