03 Jul 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/3/2025

California jury orders Google to pay $314 million over data transfers from Android phones A California jury has ordered Google to pay $314 million for collecting data from Android phones while they were connected to cellular networks, a practice that plaintiffs said equated to stealing a resource that they had paid for. The verdict, issued Tuesday by a jury in a Northern California state court, is the culmination of a class-action lawsuit that began in 2019.…
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02 Apr 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 4/1/2025

Password managers are under threat in 2025. What the LastPass breach taught us Back in August 2022, password manager LastPass suffered a massive breach. A still-unknown cyber criminal successfully targeted one of LastPass' four DevOps engineers who had access to the decryption keys for the cloud storage service. Using the engineer's stolen credentials, the hacker was able to infiltrate LastPass' systems undetected. This breach lasted for months and continued even after LastPass believed the threat…
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25 Oct 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/25/2023

Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users  The team behind the Matrix open standard and real-time communication protocol has announced the release of its second major version, bringing end-to-end encryption to group VoIP, faster loading times, and more. Additionally, the Synapse open-source Matrix homeserver's opt-in usage reporting indicates that unique matrix IDs on the public network have surpassed 115 million, indicating massive growth of the protocol. This growth is nearly doubled from its 60 million users in July 2022,…
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