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Meanwhile … New Lenovo UEFI firmware updates fix Secure Boot bypass flaws

📰 Headline Highlights

• NASCAR confirms data breach after March cyberattack

• Allianz Life confirms data breach impacts majority of 1.4 million customers

• Naval Group Denies Hack Claims, Alleges "Reputational Attack"

• Sophisticated Shuyal Stealer Targets 19 Browsers, Demonstrates Advanced Evasion

• French telecom giant Orange discloses cyberattack

• Hundreds of registered data brokers ignore user requests around personal data

• St. Paul cyberattack stretches into another day, city says workers will get paid

• French telecom giant Orange discloses cyberattack

• Florida prison data breach exposes visitors’ contact information to inmates

In other news, Aeroflot aeroflops over 'IT issues' after attackers claim year-long compromise

GOOD READ: Hackers Regularly Exploit Vulnerabilities Before Public Disclosure, Study Finds

There seem to be a lot of privacy news this week. They can be quite disheartening but while you know that your data is already out there, we can still take measures that will limit our exposure in public.

Also, the hacks and breaches, they are quite astounding.

Inside Hexagon

We are starting to feel the strain in our manpower. And that is a good sign. But while we help others, we need to take into consideration in possibly expanding Hexagon Center.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Patch - a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data, designed to update, fix, or improve it.

• LLM stands for Large Language Model - a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that is trained on massive amounts of text data to understand, generate, and manipulate human language. LLMs can perform various tasks like answering questions, translating languages, summarizing text, and generating different kinds of creative content.

• LLM hallucination - a large language model (LLM) generating text that is factually incorrect, nonsensical, or inconsistent with the input prompt, even though the output may appear plausible. Essentially, the model creates information that isn't grounded in reality or its training data.

• Cyberattack - A malicious attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer system, network, or device. The goal of a cyberattack is to disrupt or damage the target, or to steal data, intellectual property, or money.

• Malware (short for malicious software) - refers to any intrusive software developed by cybercriminals (often called hackers) to steal data and damage or destroy computers and computer systems.

• Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

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