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Despite security updates to protect data, 45% of total enterprise instances of the cloud-based IT management platform leaked PII, internal system details, and active credentials over the past year.

Discord has introduced DAVE, its new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for audio and video communications, aimed at enhancing user privacy across voice calls, group DMs, and Go Live streams. This major security upgrade marks a significant step in Discord’s ongoing efforts to protect the 200 million monthly users on its platform. Announced by one of … The post Discord Introduces New End-to-End Encryption Protocol ‘DAVE’ appeared first on RestorePrivacy.

75% of infected devices were located in homes and offices in North America and Europe.

View Forever, more like it, as Meta's privacy feature again revealed to be futile with a little light hacking A fix deployed by Meta to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once messages – photos, videos, and voice recordings that disappear from chats after a recipient sees them – has been defeated in less than a week by white-hat hackers.…

Rod McGuirk / Associated Press: Australian police say they infiltrated Ghost, a global encrypted communications app developed for criminals, arresting dozens, including the app's alleged admin  —  Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.

Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg: Pew survey: 17% of US adults say they regularly get news on TikTok in 2024, up from 14% in 2023 and 3% in 2020; 39% aged 18 to 29 do so, up from 32% a year ago  —  - Almost 40% of young adults regularly get news from the app  — TikTok faces a ban in the US if parent company doesn't divest

The Eastern European group is actively expanding its financial fraud activities, with its pipelines representing a veritable Silk Road for the transfer of cryptocurrency, and lucrative and exploitable data.

Temu denies it was hacked or suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to be selling a stolen database containing 87 million records of customer information. [...]

Ransomware gangs like BianLian and Rhysida increasingly use Microsoft's Azure Storage Explorer and AzCopy to steal data from breached networks and store it in Azure Blob storage. [...]

TikTok's survival in the US may depend on an appeals court ruling this December.

May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development A Chinese national has been accused of conducting a years-long spear-phishing campaign that aimed to steal source code from the US Army and NASA, plus other highly sensitive software used in aerospace engineering and military applications.…

Remember when managing user accounts was your biggest headache? Those were simpler times. Today, we’re drowning in a sea of machine identities, and it’s time to learn how to swim – or risk going under. In the ever-expanding universe of hybrid and multicloud environments, machine identities have proliferated faster than cat videos on the Internet. According to CyberArk, these non-human entities—think workloads, services, and anything else that goes ‘beep’ in the night—now outnumber human identities … More → The post Beyond human IAM: The rising tide of machine identities appeared first on Help Net Security.