data security
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U.S. Federal Investigators Are Reportedly Looking Into Codecov Security Breach, Undetected for Months
U.S. federal investigators are purportedly looking into a security breach at Codecov, a platform used to test software code with more 29,000 customers worldwide, Reuters reported on Saturday. The company has confirmed the breach and stated that it went undetected for months.
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Guns.com Gets Hacked, Spilling Gun Owner Information All Over the Dark Web
Watch out, firearm lovers. The subtly-named guns.com, a place where Americans can go to pick out whatever stylish boomstick they like and have it shipped straight to their doorstep, seems to have a pretty awful data breach on its hands.
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Indicted CEO of Encrypted Phone Firm Says Drug Charges Are Attack on the ‘Right to Privacy’
Sky Global CEO Jean-Francois Eap, who the U.S. Department of Justice indicted last week for his alleged role in providing encryption tech to international drug cartels, has shot back that the government is targeting him to destroy the “fundamental right to privacy.”
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California DMV Warns Millions of Records May Have Been Exposed in Worrisome Data Breach
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has warned state residents that over a year’s worth of data — including customer addresses and licence plate numbers — may have been compromised in a recent cyberattack on a third-party contractor.