Welcome to another Afternoon Dessert breakout:
This Hidden Facebook Tool Lets Users Remove Their Email or Phone Number Shared by Others
Facebook appears to have silently rolled out a tool that allows users to remove their contact information, such as phone numbers and email addresses, uploaded by others. The existence of the tool, which is buried inside a Help Center page about "Friending," was first reported by Business Insider last week. It's offered as a way for "Non-users" to "exercise their rights under applicable laws." Read more....
Mastodon now has over 1 million users amid Twitter tensions
Mastodon, the free, open-source, decentralized micro-blogging social media platform, has surpassed a million monthly active users for the first time in its history. [...]
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Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers were accessed following a ransomware incident. The attack, according to the company, was detected in its IT network on October 12 in a manner that it said was "consistent with the precursors to a ransomware event," prompting it to isolate its systems, but not
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Twitter Blue Badge email scams – Don’t fall for them!
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Ransomware gang threatens to release stolen Medibank data
A ransomware gang that some believe is a relaunch of REvil and others track as BlogXX has claimed responsibility for last month's ransomware attack against Australian health insurance provider Medibank Private Limited. [...]
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Maple Leaf Foods suffers outage following weekend cyberattack
Maple Leaf Foods confirmed on Sunday that it experienced a cybersecurity incident causing a system outage and disruption of operations. [...]
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This Hidden Facebook Tool Lets Users Remove Their Email or Phone Number Shared by Others
Facebook appears to have silently rolled out a tool that allows users to remove their contact information, such as phone numbers and email addresses, uploaded by others. The existence of the tool, which is buried inside a Help Center page about "Friending," was first reported by Business Insider last week. It's offered as a way for "Non-users" to "exercise their rights under applicable laws." Read more....
Mastodon now has over 1 million users amid Twitter tensions
Mastodon, the free, open-source, decentralized micro-blogging social media platform, has surpassed a million monthly active users for the first time in its history. [...]
Read more....
Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers were accessed following a ransomware incident. The attack, according to the company, was detected in its IT network on October 12 in a manner that it said was "consistent with the precursors to a ransomware event," prompting it to isolate its systems, but not
Read more....
Twitter Blue Badge email scams – Don’t fall for them!
That was the week that was...
Read more....
Ransomware gang threatens to release stolen Medibank data
A ransomware gang that some believe is a relaunch of REvil and others track as BlogXX has claimed responsibility for last month's ransomware attack against Australian health insurance provider Medibank Private Limited. [...]
Read more....
Maple Leaf Foods suffers outage following weekend cyberattack
Maple Leaf Foods confirmed on Sunday that it experienced a cybersecurity incident causing a system outage and disruption of operations. [...]
Read more....