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Sex toy maker Lovense threatens legal action after fixing security flaws that exposed users’ data

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The internet-connected sex toy maker said it fixed the vulnerabilities that exposed users’ private email addresses and accounts to takeovers, but said it was also planning to take legal action following the disclosure.

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Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

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The U.S. insurance giant tells state regulators that Social Security numbers were among the personal information stolen in its mid-July cyberattack.

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Google says UK government has not demanded an encryption backdoor for its users’ data

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Google refused to tell a U.S. senator whether the company had received a secret U.K. surveillance order demanding access to encrypted data, similar to an order served on Apple earlier this year.

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Google won’t say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data

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Google said it has “never built a backdoor” for its services, but refused to rule out that it had received a secret U.K. surveillance order demanding access to encrypted data.

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Telecom giant Orange warns of disruption amid ongoing cyberattack

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The telecom giant, one of the largest in the world with customers in Europe and Africa, said customers are experiencing ongoing disruption to its services due to an unspecified hack.

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New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts

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The top cybersecurity official in New York told TechCrunch in an interview that Trump’s budget cuts are going to put the government at risk from cyberattacks, and will put more pressure on states to secure themselves.

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Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked and systems ‘destroyed’

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Russian prosecutor said it opened a criminal investigation into the cyberattack targeting Aeroflot, the largest airline in Russia.

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Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack

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Exclusive: Allianz Life said the “majority” of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The company said it has notified the FBI.

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Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers

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Google has suspended the Firebase account of Catwatchful following a TechCrunch investigation. The spyware operation was caught using Google’s own servers to host and run its surveillance app, which was stealthily monitoring thousands of people’s phones.

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AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties

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“We’re getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it’s actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse.

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