Proprietary Software and Security Problems
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State’s second-largest health insurer suffers cybersecurity [breach]
The state’s second-largest insurer suffered large technical outages due to a cybersecurity ransomware incident.
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Medusa ransomware crew brags about spreading Bing, Cortana source code
"There are many digital signatures of Microsoft products in the leak. Many of them have not been recalled," the gang continued. "Go ahead and your software will be the same level of trust as the original Microsoft product."
Obviously, this could be a dangerous level of trust to give miscreants developing malware. Below is Callow's summary of the purported dump of source code presumable obtained or stolen somehow from Microsoft.
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Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Moved From Recon to Targeting US Critical Infrastructure
A subgroup of Iran-linked APT Phosphorus (Mint Sandstorm) has started to quickly adopt PoC exploit code targeting vulnerabilities in internet-facing applications.
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Oracle Releases 433 New Security Patches With April 2023 CPU
Oracle’s April 2023 critical patch update (CPU) includes 433 new security patches, including more than 70 that fix critical vulnerabilities.
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Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft over AI training
Shortly after reports emerged on Wednesday that Microsoft is about to remove Twitter from its ad platform, Twitter CEO Elon Musk fired back with the threat of a lawsuit, claiming the computer giant illegally used Twitter’s data, such as users’ tweets, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
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Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform [Ed: Microsoft is no better than Musk and it has money problems]
Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform. And this time it's one of the biggest companies in the tech industry.
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US, UK: Russia Exploiting Old Vulnerability to Hack Cisco Routers
US and UK government agencies have issued a joint warning for Russian group APT28 targeting Cisco routers by exploiting an old vulnerability.