I was renewing an #Insurance policy this morning and they said they no longer accept @protonprivacy emails addresses because 'they are associated with fraud'. WTAF?

They used my #Protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #BigTech selling #CyberSec #InfoSec products which just happen to lock end users into their products?

#Allianz since you asked.

I was renewing an #Insurance policy this morning and they said they no longer accept @protonprivacy emails addresses because 'they are associated with fraud'. WTAF?

They used my #Protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #BigTech selling #CyberSec #InfoSec products which just happen to lock end users into their products?

#Allianz since you asked.

YouTuber Kingmi Mobile retrofitted an iPhone 17 Pro Max with a cooling system he removed from a RedMagic 11 Pro+ device, revealing an 8% jump in performance.

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YouTuber Kingmi Mobile retrofitted an iPhone 17 Pro Max with a cooling system he removed from a RedMagic 11 Pro+ device, revealing an 8% jump in performance.

#Tech #Apple #Android #Google #Science #InfoSec #TechNews #Engineering #Blog #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Markets #Travel #Finance #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

And this, kids, is why we never ever set up easy-to-guess passwords. Even in testing, even temporarily. Just pwgen it, every time.

https://www.unionesarda.it/en/world/louvre-robbery-security-flaws-the-obviously-password-was-quot-louvrequot-ft1kkp6c

> accessing the museum's video surveillance server required typing the all-too-obvious word: LOUVRE

#InfoSec

And this, kids, is why we never ever set up easy-to-guess passwords. Even in testing, even temporarily. Just pwgen it, every time.

https://www.unionesarda.it/en/world/louvre-robbery-security-flaws-the-obviously-password-was-quot-louvrequot-ft1kkp6c

> accessing the museum's video surveillance server required typing the all-too-obvious word: LOUVRE

#InfoSec

Hackers are launching mass attacks, exploiting websites using outdated WordPress plugins. WordPress security firm Wordfence says that it blocked 8.7 million attack attempts against its customers in just two days, October 8 and 9.

#Tech #InfoSec #Wordpress #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

Hackers are launching mass attacks, exploiting websites using outdated WordPress plugins. WordPress security firm Wordfence says that it blocked 8.7 million attack attempts against its customers in just two days, October 8 and 9.

#Tech #InfoSec #Wordpress #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

According to early reports, another AWS outage has struck the internet, with a huge rise in reports of problems across AWS-backed services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Capital One, Xbox, and, of course, AWS itself.

#Tech #InfoSec #Amazon #AWS #Microsoft #Windows #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Azure #Games #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon

According to early reports, another AWS outage has struck the internet, with a huge rise in reports of problems across AWS-backed services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Capital One, Xbox, and, of course, AWS itself.

#Tech #InfoSec #Amazon #AWS #Microsoft #Windows #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Azure #Games #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon

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https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux

#linux #windows #microsoft #InfoSec #recall #FOSS #OpenSource #data #security #safety

Users attempting to download Xubuntu, a lightweight Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu, are reporting getting malware instead. The project's maintainers have temporarily disabled downloads.

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https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux

#linux #windows #microsoft #InfoSec #recall #FOSS #OpenSource #data #security #safety