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Elmo returns to his wholesome self, promoting love instead of racism and Epstein claims

🤷‍♀️ What now?: Do you have strong passwords? (Generally, that means long passwords.) Be sure your multi factor authentication is turned on or request for it.

Meanwhile … IoT Devices at Risk Due to eSIM Flaw in Kigen eUICC Cards

📰 Headline Highlights

• Louis Vuitton says UK customer data stolen in cyber-attack

• Albemarle latest Virginia county hit with ransomware

• Konfety Android Malware on Google Play Uses ZIP Manipulation to Imitate Legitimate Apps

• Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records

• Arizona’s North Country HealthCare suffers cyberattack

• Avantic Medical Lab hit by ransomware attack, data breach

• Anne Arundel Dermatology Data Breach Impacts 1.9 Million People

• 1.4 Million Affected by Data Breach at Virginia Radiology Practice

In other news, Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configuration • China’s cyber sector amplifies Beijing’s hacking of U.S. targets

GOOD READ: Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing

Despite the challenging news of the previous week and a doldrum of hacking news this week, HX Weekly managed to create four new advertisements.

We were reluctant to talk about Elmo this week but finally decided that Elmo can probably teach us something important in cybersecurity.

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Glossary/Legend:

• IoT devices, or Internet of Things devices, are physical objects embedded with sensors, software, and network connectivity, enabling them to collect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the internet.

• Large Language Models (LLMs) - (Like, ChatGPT) It’s a type of artificial intelligence program that has been trained on massive amounts of text data to understand, generate, and manipulate human language. LLMs are powerful tools capable of performing various language-based tasks, such as text generation, translation, summarization, and question answering.

• 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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