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New LinkedIn data leak exposed details of 92% of users. Professional networking platform LinkedIn has denied reports of a data breach that allegedly compromised the data of more than 700 million users. “Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. We want to be clear that this is not a data breach and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed,” the company said in a note posted on its website. Our initial investigation has found that this data was scraped from LinkedIn and other various websites and includes the same data reported earlier this year in our April 2021 scraping update.” The data was obtained by a hacker who exploited the official LinkedIn API. The hacker is currently selling the information online and posted a sample of the data on June 22, containing the information of 1 million users. The leaked user data includes email address, full name, phone numbers, physical address, geolocation, user name, profile URL, gender, social

Nigeria said on Monday it was in discussions with Twitter after it suspended the US social media giant’s services in the country, branding its use as “unpatriotic”. The Twitter suspension has provoked an outcry from the international community and rights groups who denounced it as a threat to freedom of expression in Africa’s most populous country. Nigeria announces talks with Twitter after ban, as Ecowas court bars government crackdown on users, Nigeria said it was halting the platform’s operations indefinitely on Friday, two days after Twitter deleted a comment from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account referring to civil unrest that the firm said violated its rules.  “There are discussions ongoing with Twitter, we will see how that progresses, so I cannot say for now the duration of the suspension,” Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said after a meeting with diplomats on the issue. “There are conversations, yes, with our partners. We want to use social media for good.” Twitter has no

Google Delays Privacy Sandbox Initiatives, Continues Support for 3rd Party Cookies. Google announced that support for third-party cookies would be extended until late 2023, giving marketers more than a year extension from the previous plan to block third-party cookies by 2022. The Privacy Sandbox initiatives will be delayed while more testing takes place. Google said Thursday it’s pushing back its plan to kill off third-party tracking cookies in Chrome. It now expects to phase out cookies and replace them with tech from its Privacy Sandbox by 2023. The delay comes after Google pledged to give oversight of the cookie changes to the UK’s antitrust watchdog. “While there’s considerable progress with this initiative, it’s become clear that more time is needed across the ecosystem to get this right,” Chrome’s Privacy Engineering Director, Vinay Goel,  said  Thursday. Google first announced its intentions to kill off the tracking cookies, which advertisers use to track users around the web a

Facebook targeting Nigerian learners with educational app Sabee. From Facebook office in Lagos, Nigeria the first products to come out of this office: a mobile application aimed at education called Sabee, which means “to know” in Nigerian Pidgin. The app aims to connect learners and teachers in online communities to make educational opportunities more accessible. The app was briefly published on Google Play by the NPE Team, Facebook’s internal research and development group, which typically focuses on new social experiences in areas such as dating, audio, music, video, messaging and more. While NPE Team apps sometimes inform about wider efforts on Facebook, the group has not yet created an app to become a standalone Facebook product. Many of its earlier applications are also excluded, including (somewhat unfortunately) the online creator of zine, e.g. The Hobbi video app, the CatchUp app to call, Bump to find friends, the community app for podcasts and more. However, Sabee represents a

Russia bans VyprVPN, Opera VPN services in the country. Russia’s telecommunications and media regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) on Thursday introduced restrictions on the operation of these two VPN service providers describing them as threats. “In accordance with the regulation on responding to threats to circumvent restrictions on access to child pornography, suicidal, pro-narcotic and other prohibited content, restrictions on the use of VPN services VyprVPN and Opera VPN will be introduced from June 17, 2021,” the state agency  said  in a statement.” The watchdog said the services could be used to access illegal content, and only companies using them in “nonstop technological processes” would be able to continue doing so. The two VPN services were classified as threats based on regulations introduced by the Russian Federation Government with Decree No. 127 on February 12. After Roskomnadzor’s decision, Opera suspended support of VPN services in Russia, as Opera’s Senior Public Relations M

Twitter loses intermediary status in India, over non-compliance of new IT rules. The government sources on Wednesday said that micro-blogging platform Twitter has lost its intermediary status in India over non-compliance of the new IT rules formulated by the Government of Indian recently. As a result of the development, the company has lost its legal shield in the country from prosecution over it’s user posts. The sources further added that Twitter will be liable for the content when it comes to it being violative of any Indian law. “Twitter has lost intermediary status in India the moment they didn’t comply with new IT rules.” As per reports, Twitter will now be considered as the  editorial publisher of the content  that is shared on its platform instead of being considered as an intermediary platform. This essentially means that if any unlawful content is discovered on Twitter, the Indian government will hold the company responsible instead of the user who shared the content. Earlier

3.3 million US & Canadian Volkswagen customer data stolen. Volkswagen Group of America announced today (June 11, 2021) that more than 3.3 million potential and actual Audi customers in the U.S. and Canada had personal data exposed by vendor. At least some data was taken without authorization. Volkswagen and Audi, VW’s luxury brand, have been hit by a data breach that exposed the contact information and, in some cases, personal details, like driver license numbers & social security number of customers in the United States and Canada. 3.3 million people’s data was left unsecured on the Internet for over a year by the vendor. The breach stems from an outside vendor that Volkswagen, Audi, and some of their dealerships use. Gathered between 2014 and 2019, the data collected for marketing purposes. The company has reached out to 90,000 people in the US. Mostly Audi customers or shoppers, that included driver’s license numbers and, in a small number of cases, Social Security numbers,

EA hacked game source code and tools stolen. Hackers have broken into the systems of Electronic Arts, one of the world’s biggest video game publishers, and stolen source code used in company games. Hackers have stolen valuable information from major game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), the company said. The attackers claimed to have downloaded source code for games such as FIFA 21 and for the proprietary Frostbite game engine used as the base for many other high-profile games. News of the hack was first reported by news site Vice, which said some 780GB of data was stolen. The hackers claimed to offer “full capability of exploiting on all EA services.” They also claimed to have stolen software development tools for FIFA 21 and server code for player matchmaking in FIFA 22. Brett Callow, the cybersecurity expert and a threat analyst at Emsisoft, said losing control over source code could be problematic for EA’s business. “Source code could, theoretically, be copied by other developers or

150 million Covid vaccinated Indian people data leaked and put on for sell on the dark web. Data available at just $800 -$1000 on dark web. Update : It turnout to be a false data breach scare. Probably created for scamming via bitcoin payments. Because there is no proof of leak to be found no screenshot no data sample provided by the data sellers. Internet freedom has contacted many security expert and they said It’s most likely a scam. Yesterday, there was a false data breach scare after reports of a COWIN leak started rolling in. That was debunked. But we're making an appeal for you to pay attention here: Data breaches in India ARE rising. And our laws are not equipped to deal with them! This is why. -> https://t.co/NmM90ym2Fk — Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) (@internetfreedom) June 11, 2021 We found It was first posted on 27th May by ‘mind8hunter’ on twitter. https://twitter.com/mind8hunter1/status/1397986701885132801 As per tweet posted by Dark tracer the dark web selle

Razorsecure, Hampshire cybersecurity startup got funding of £2M to solve security challenges in the rail industry. Razorsecure, a Hampshire-based cybersecurity software provider for the rail industry, has secured more than £2 million from the existing investors including, Enterprise M3 Growth Fund; Mainport Innovation Fund II, Wentworth Limited; and Breed Reply. To date, the company has raised £6 million in funding. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and scale its products. Founded by Alex Cowan in 2015, RazorSecure provides a suite of products and services to protect rail companies from cyber-attack.  The company’s technology is powered by machine learning and designed to protect rolling stock, signaling, and infrastructure systems. RazorSecure’s solution detects how a system operates and identifies deviations as a possible threat.

Youtube shorts will let user sample audio from any youtube video. Like tiktok youtube short video creators can use audio from any youtube video. Being able to sample audio from other users’ videos is one of TikTok’s greatest strengths. It allows memes to percolate across the platform and lets users discover new content by watching videos with the same sound. Soon, YouTube will expand this feature in its TikTok competitor, Shorts, letting users sample sounds from  any  content uploaded to YouTube. There’s now an option to record 60-second Shorts in addition to the 15-second option. But users will not be able to add music from the YouTube library to 60-second Shorts. Shorts users can already sample sounds from other Shorts videos (as well as from a library of licensed music). The feature will attract YouTube users into its Shorts feature via a new “Create” button in the mobile app. Clicking it will give users the option to sample the video’s audio in Shorts. YouTube launched its TikTok-l

Twitter operation suspended in Nigeria. The statement announcing Twitter’s ban was announced today (4th June 2021) on Twitter via Nigeria’s ministry of information and culture Twitter handle. Nigeria’s information and culture minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed announced Twitter’s suspension in a statement by his media aide Segun Adeyemi. “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria,” Mohammed said. The Nigerian government’s spokesman said “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence” as the reason for the suspension. Today’s announcement is a culmination of events that have happened this past week. Yesterday, Twitter deleted tweets and videos of President Muhammadu Buhari making threats of punishment to a sect called IPOB in the South-Eastern part of the country after he blamed them for attacks on government buildings. He then refe