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Warning for misinformation and quick trips for passwords … or not

Meanwhile … Hot Topic Data Breach: A Massive Leak Exposes Millions of Customer Records

📰 Headline Highlights

• DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers’ genetic data

• With 23andMe Struck by Layoffs, Can You Delete Genetic Data? Here's What We Know

• FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

• MAZDA CONNECT FLAWS ALLOW TO HACK SOME MAZDA VEHICLES

• Scammers target UK senior citizens with Winter Fuel Payment texts

• Debt Relief Firm Forth Discloses Data Breach Impacting 1.5 Million People

• Zoom App Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Remote Code

• CHINA-LINKED THREAT ACTORS COMPROMISED MULTIPLE TELECOS AND SPIED ON A LIMITED NUMBER OF U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

• Form I-9 Compliance Data Breach Impacts Over 190,000 People

• FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed': Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data

In other news, CISA’s Jack Cable on secure-by-design pledge progress — and next steps

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We were suddenly bombarded with passwords toward the end of the week but even though the election is over, we can already see disinformation starting to creep.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Confirmation bias - people’s tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with their existing beliefs.

• 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.

• Phishing - The fraudulent practice of sending emails or other messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

• Malware - Software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

• QR Codes - or Quick Response code - A two-dimensional barcode that can be scanned by a smartphone camera to access information

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